1907 Format 4°, 24.5x19.3 cm, volume 1: 95 numbered pages, volume 2: 84 numbered pages, in German. Translated by Adolf Knoblauch. Sturdy cloth binding with a paper dust-jacket, in a cardboard slipcase. Title page printed in black. Typography from the prestigious Leipzig printing house Poeschel & Trepte. Volume two contains Blake's major prophetic works such as Los, Urizen, Ahania and others. Published in 1907 by Oesterheld & Co. Verlag as a one-time limited edition of 670 copies on handmade paper. Both volumes bear the number 532. Cardboard slipcase damaged. Paper dust-jackets have faded spines and minor damage. The volumes themselves are in preserved condition. Provenance: the estate of Jaroslav Skalický – the Jiří Kačer collection. William Blake – English painter, poet and printmaker; during his lifetime he was misunderstood and virtually unknown, today he is regarded as a major figure in the history of both poetry and the visual art of Pre-Romanticism.