The Sports of Cruelty: fairies, folk-songs, charms and other country matters in the work of William Blake. - Rare Book Insider
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The Sports of Cruelty: fairies, folk-songs, charms and other country matters in the work of William Blake.

FIRST EDITION. Half title. Orig. black cloth; small mark to front board. Black pictorial d.w., unclipped. A nice copy. Inscription by the publisher on t.p. reads, 'For John Symonds, with all manner of good wishes from the Publishers, Cecil Woolf'. Cecil Woolf was the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, who set up his own imprint after working with them at the Hogarth Press. The recipient is John Symonds, the literary executor of Aleister Crowley and author of several biographies of the mystic.
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