Blake & Tradition (2 vol box set) Kathleen Raine (1st edition) Princeton, 1968

  

First edition, first printing hardcover box set of Blake and Tradition by Kathleen Raine (Princeton University Press, 1968). A part of the Bollingen Series XXXV-11. A very well preserved vintge set of this, the eleventh volume in a series of A. Mellon lectures in the fine arts. A study of the work and divine wisdom attained by William Blake.

With a look into the influence of the occult / spiritual / esoteric / Gnostic / alchemical / hermetic. A clean set with mild shelf wear to box and small tear to paper wrap on right side of box. Very faint shelf wear around edges of jackets with mild waviness to jacket spine. Boards are straight and clean. Bindings are tight and spines straight. All pages are clean and unmarked.