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<p>Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, object 4 (Bentley 4, Erdman 4, Keynes 4) "Introduction"
</p><p>Dealer: A. S. W. Rosenbach acting for Rosenwald in 1938
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Note: Acquired from Blake by Henry Crabb Robinson in 1826; given by Robinson to Edwin W. Field in March 1863; inherited by Mrs. Edwin W. Field; given by her to F. W. Burton, October 1871; given by Burton to Charles Fairfax Murray in June 1900; sold posthumously from Murray's collection, Sotheby's, 7 July 1919, lot 8 (£600 to the dealer Sabin); Willis Vickery by no later than 1927; sold posthumously from Vickery's collection, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, 1 March 1933, lot 16 ($6,000 to the dealer A. S. W. Rosenbach); Frank Lewis Bemis by no later than 1939; sold posthumously from Bemis's collection through Rosenbach to Lessing J. Rosenwald on 4 Nov. 1938; given by Rosenwald to The Library of Congress in 1945.</div>
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