Blake and the Youthful Ancients, Being Portraits of William Blake and His Followers Engraved on Wood by Leonard Baskin and with A Biographical Note by Bennett Schiff.
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1956. Limited to 50 copies signed by Baskin and with an additional presentation inscription by him on the colophon page. As Baskin noted in the Gehenna Press Bibliography: “This was the last book which was made with my hands, that cessation a benefaction since I was a compositor and pressman of no distinction. This book is an homage to Blake and the dear youths who plied him with honour in his late age. My increased skill in wood engraving is here made manifest and a pattern for a kind of Gehenna Press book makes its beginning here; an introduction succeeded by a series of prints. The title-page reveals the novice’s poking into historical sources & exemplars.” The Gehenna Press, The Work of Fifty Years 7. One of the rarest of Gehenna Press books. Occasional light foxing, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, illustrated with 18 wood engravings, original half-morocco & Cockerell boards by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $7,500.00