first edition Hardcover
1799 · Amsterdam
by STEDMAN, John Gabriel. (William Blake)
Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. First Dutch edition. Volume one only (of four). Octavo. xvi, 339pp., illustrated with 16 engraved plates: including two folded maps, a frontispiece portrait of Steadman engraved by R. Vinkeles, and five unsigned plates engraved after the original English plates by William Blake. Contemporary quarter calf and speckled paper over boards, gilt spine with dark red leather titling label. The spine is rubbed and darkened, leather corner tips are bumped, slight stain at top right corner of the front endpapers and at the top of fore-edge, very good, with all 16 plates in fine condition. The first Dutch (truncated)