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‎Blake William.‎

‎Illustrations of the Book of Job.‎

‎London: plates dated 1825 but published 1826. Folio 320 x 254 mm engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper some leaves watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Matted a brilliant set with the original printed label preserved. § First edition limited to 150 proof sets 65 sets were also printed on French paper and 100 sets on drawing paper with the word ‘proof’removed. This is the finest set of the proofs I have ever seen and far outshines the other two original printings and the later re-issue. The India paper set is the best printing of these famous plates which comprise Blake’s major single achievement as a printmaker after the illuminated books. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake’s last completed prophetic book: the text a series of biblical quotations is above and below each image. “It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake’s most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense†S. Foster Damon A Blake Dictionary p. 217. “The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art†Ray Illustrator and the Book in England #8. [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 12: “I am Young and ye are very Oldâ€.‎

‎e 1825 but published 1826. London: March 8 1828 i.e 1825 but published 1826. Single leaf recently cleaned. § First edition one of 100 sets printed directly onto Whatman wove with the word “proof†removed. Blake had a long pictorial engagement with the biblical story of Job. This a single leaf from a series of 21 engravings commissioned by John Linnell in 1823 that are generally considered to be Blake's masterpiece as an intaglio printmaker. "Rather than using the customary "mixed method" of preliminary etching followed by engraving Blake used pure line engraving in the Job plates. Perhaps one of his motivations was to evoke the art of the master engravers of the Renaissance whom Blake greatly admired such as Albrecht Dürer." The William Blake Archive.In the Book of Job Job and his old friends argue at length over the divine purpose of Job's afflictions. This plate illustrates the moment the youthful Elihu overcomes his respect for his elders and bursts into the conversation to explain why he thinks both sides are wrong Job 32:6. In Blake's elaborate borders the figure of Job's Humanity sleeps while soaring angels try to awaken him.Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625–641C. March 8 unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 7: “And when they lifted up their eyesâ€.‎

‎e 1825 but published 1826. London: March 8 1828 i.e 1825 but published 1826. Single leaf recently cleaned. § First edition one of 100 sets printed directly onto Whatman wove with the word “proof†removed. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625–641C. March 8 unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate 9: “Then a Spirit passed before my faceâ€.‎

‎Proof on India paper mounted on handmade paper. London: March 8 1825 but published 1826. Proof on India paper mounted on handmade paper some leaves watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. A fine impression. Matted. § Single plate from the first edition one of 150 proof sets on India paper. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625–641C. March 8 unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes.‎

‎New York: Beechhurst Press 1955 Small 4to 116 text errata 100 facsimile pp. Original full orange hardgrain morocco stamped in gilt joints slightly scuffed very good. § 2500 copies printed. Facsimile of the Rinder copy a black-and-white version published to accompany the Stirling colored copy. This appears to be a de luxe copy of the NY edition in orange morocco rather than the standard orange cloth.Bentley Blake Books 79B. Beechhurst Press hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes. with Wicksteed Joseph. William Blake’s Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes.‎

‎London: Trianon Press 1951 and London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust 1954. Small 4to 116 text errata 100 facsimile pp. and Small 4to xv 264 pp. Both vols. in original orange cloth with gilt lettering and dust jackets a bit worn. § Jerusalem: 2500 copies printed. Facsimile of the Rinder copy a black-and-white version published to accompany the Stirling colored copy. Bently Blake Books 79. Commentary: First edition 1500 copies printed. This commentary was intended to go with the full-scale color facsimile and this black-and-white Rinder facsimile. Bentley Blake Books 2961. Trianon Press hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Joseph sold to the Ishmeelites in The Protestant’s Family Bible. Containing the Old and New Testament with the Apocrypha illustrated by explanatory Notes. With a compleat Concordance and general Index. By a Society of Protestant Divines.‎

‎Single plate. London: Harrison and co. 1780-81. Single plate 10 x 7.5 ins. A little browned around the edges very good. § First edition thus issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another copy in the marketplace since. That rarity is born out by ESTC which records 4 copies in all two at the BL seriously imperfect one in Oxford Queen’s College and one in North America Bentley Blake Collection at Victoria University. It is noteworthy for the profusion of illustrations from classical sources and in the five plates engraved by Blake he shows his knowledge of the work of Rubens and Raphael most likely from reproductions in earlier illustrated books. See Essick CBI VI. Bentley Blake Books 419. Darlow and Moule 1273. Harrison and co unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Letters from William Blake to Thomas Butts 1800-1803. Printed in facsimile with an Introductory Note by Geoffrey Keynes.‎

‎4to. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1926. 4to ix pp. illustrated facsimiles of the original letters. Quarter gray cloth marbled boards printed label on upper cover. § Limited to 325 copies. Facsimiles of the only 10 letters known to have survived written by Blake to his friend and patron of thirty years Thomas Butts 1759-1846. Also included are a rough draft of Butts’ reply to Blake’s first letter and a debtor and creditor account between them for the year 1805. This is the first time they were reproduced in facsimile and the first time Butts’ letter has been printed in full. Bentley Blake Books 90. Clarendon Press hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Letters. together with a Life by Frederick Tatham. Edited from the Original Manuscripts with an Introduction and Notes by Archibald G.B. Russell.‎

‎8vo. New York: Scribners 1906. 8vo xlvii 237 40 ads pp. With a frontispiece and 11 plates. Original blue cloth gilt ink stain and ink signature on front endpaper a very good copy. § First edition of this collection. Bentley Blake Books 88. Scribners hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Little Tom the Sailor.‎

‎Printed for & sold by the Widow Spicer of Folkstone for the Benefit of her Orphans. n.d. 55.9 x 22.9 cm. single sheet folded once with some traces of mounting tape on the vertical margin some creases but very good. § The very fine William Muir facsimile often mistaken in the past as the original. The poem was composed by William Hayley. Originally etched in relief and white line by Blake on four plates printed in black ink uncolored; copies are also known hand colored or printed in brown ink. This is one of Blake’s rarest works; it is also amongst the rarest of Muir’s facsimiles; some were issued in The Hobby Horse and some separately - this is one of the separate issues and the only copy I have ever seen. They can be distinguished from the Hobby Horse examples since the latter were cut into two pieces to fit in the magazine always with slight loss of text at the cut or folded twice. Bentley Blake Books 470B or D. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 384. See also Keynes Blake Studies 2nd ed. who reports that the Muir facsimile was exhibited for some years as the original at the Pierpont Morgan Library.Essick notes: Muir “Little Tom†copies from my collection handlist. Gives the full watermark of the example bound in the Hobby Horse and Muir’s statement see first entry that his facsimile is based on an original owned by H. H. Gilchrist.Little Tom the Sailor. Datable to 1886. Laid paper leaf 56.8 x 23.1 cm. with watermark "POUNCY." On the printed front wrapper of his 1887 Europe facsimile Muir notes that his facsimile of Little Tom is "from Mr. Gilchrist's copy" now untraced. The facsimile is attributed to Emery Walker Ltd. rather than Muir in Keynes Blake Studies 2nd ed. page 109; this paper listed by Keynes as no. iii on page 110. Matted. Acquired July 1971 from Charles Sessler Books $200. BB#249i 470C or D. Idem. Laid paper leaf 61.8 x 21.3 cm. with watermark “JOHN DICKINSON & Co†this paper listed in Keynes Blake Studies 2nd ed. page 110 no. i. Folded twice and bound in The Century Guild Hobby Horse vol. 1 no. 4 Oct. 1886 which see under Biography and Criticism Periodicals through 1900. BB#249i 470B 1683. Idem. With the headpiece and tailpiece hand color in imitation of the original in the British Museum very probably hand colored by Blake or his wife Catherine. Inscribed in pen and brown ink “No 3 Wm Muir†upper left leaf of wove paper without watermark 60.3 x 23.0 cm. Quaritch records the delivery from Muir of a “coloured†copy of Little Tom on 11 May 1925 no copy number recorded. Quaritch’s catalogue 401 of May 1926 offers as item 243 a Muir facsimile of Little Tom with “two illustrations coloured by hand from the copy in the British Museum†for £1.1s. This catalogue dates the work to “1925†apparently the date of coloring possibly of printing but not of original execution as a lithograph. The same entry appears in Quaritch’s Dec. 1926 catalogue 405 item 256 1926 catalogue 427 item 248 and 1930 catalogue 434 item 2065. Acquired Nov. 2012 on $1316.99. BB#249i 470C or D hand colored copies not listed. Muir “Little Tom†copies from my collection handlist. Gives the full watermark of the example bound in the Hobby Horse and M unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Milton.‎

‎Shambhala 1978. First printing thus. Light bump to upper front corner else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Shambhala, 1978. First printing thus. unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Poems by Mr. Gray. William Blake’s Water-Colours illustrating the Poems of Thomas Gray. With an Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.‎

‎4to. London: Trianon Press 1971. 4to xx 71 pp with 16 color plates and 116 illustrations. Very Good in original color illustrated card wrappers with slight wear and acetate dust-jacket. § First trade edition thus. Introductory handbook to the facsimile of Blake’s watercolors for Gray’s poems. Bentley BB 385. Trianon Press unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Poetical Sketches. By W.B.‎

‎8vo. London: William Griggs 1890. 8vo 4 70 pp.New wrappers. § Printed on darkened paper particularly towards the outer edges consistent with Bentley's description of Griggs's "very persuasive facsimile" of 1890 of which 50 copies were issued. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings.†Wikipedia. Bentley BB 130. William Griggs unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Poetical Sketches. By W.B.‎

‎8vo. London: Printed in the Year 1783. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo original paper over boards. Very good. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. Bentley 132. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings.†Wikipedia Printed in the Year 1783. London Noel Douglas hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Poetical Sketches. Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783 edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd.‎

‎Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 96 pp.A good copy in original cloth with a small amount of wear at spine ends and the paper label on spine darkened and with two small chips. Rear end paper slightly foxed and one or two spots on occasional pages but internally the book is a clean copy with just a touch of dusting to page edges. § First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 24 copies. Bentley BB 129. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings.†Wikipedia Pickering hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Poetry and Prose of William Blake Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.‎

‎Thick 8vo. London: Nonesuch Press 1948. Thick 8vo xi 936 pp.Original pale blue buckram slightly faded on spine and with one or two minor marks. § A reissue of the Nonesuch Press 1927 edition in one volume. Bentley BB 303 F. Nonesuch Press hardcover books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 108800

‎Blake William.‎

‎Remember Me! A New Years Gift or Christmas Present 1826.‎

‎12mo. London: I. Poole 1825. 12mo frontispiece "A Tribute of Regard."; title-page "Remember Me" etc. with 1826 beneath "Christmas Present"; second engraved leaf recto "Calendar and Album 1826." verso January and February next three leaves with the rest of the Calendar; verso of third leaf "The Virgin Child and St. Johnâ€; 8 pp. of engraved music; contents and introduction i ii-xxiv; plate "Her screams aroused her servant"; 1 2-336. With the Blake plate at p. 32 and color plates at 42 73 88 89 93 148 149 275 b/w The Storm and 326 color. Publisher’s original printed yellow paper boards no backstrip occasional spotting but a good copy of this fragile booklet in its rarest format preserved in a cloth box. § Second issue of the book no variance in the plate the contents omits the blank leaves and the misnumbered leaves at the end. One of the rarest of all of the plates designed and engraved by Blake here in its rarest format. The plate titled ‘The Hiding of Moses’ was the last plate designed and engraved by Blake himself for a commercial publication; the original drawing ‘Moses placed in the Ark of Bulrushes’ which closely echoes a tempera now untraced that was executed some 25 years earlier is in the Huntington Library. BB #490B. Easson and Essick William Blake Book Illustrator XI recording the Rosenwald proof and 3 copies. Keynes Blake Studies XIX recording 7 variants but not mentioning the 1826 printing. Also see Bentley’s detailed essay and census of copies in “Remember Me! Customs and Costumes of Blake’s Gift Book†University of Toronto Quarterly 80.4 fall 2011: 880-92. I. Poole hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Selected Poems Edited with an Introduction by Denis Saurat.‎

‎Thin 4to. London: Westhouse 1947. Thin 4to 120 pp. with illustrations enlarged from the Virgil woodcuts. Original gray cloth red pictorial dust-jacket lacks mylar ink inscription on front endpaper “.from Bill.†§ First edition. Bentley Blake Books 367: “The 'introduction’ pp.7-23; the text is taken from the Keynes editions.†Westhouse hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Selected Poems Edited with an Introduction by Denis Saurat.‎

‎Thin 4to. London: Westhouse 1947. Thin 4to 120 pp. with illustrations enlarged from the Virgil woodcuts. Original gray cloth. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books 367: “The 'introduction’ pp.7-23; the text is taken from the Keynes editions.†Westhouse hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Selections from the Writings of William Blake: with an Introductory Essay by Laurence Housman.‎

‎London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner and Co. 1893. Small 8vo xxi 259 pp with tissue-guarded frontispiece of the central portion of Blake's Plate 2 engraving from the Book of Job set. Very good in original white parchment slightly dusty and mottled around edges. Internally very clean with a few dusty edges. § First and only edition of this selection. The frontispiece shows “The Sons of God appearing before the Lord†i.e. plate 2 from Illustrations of the Book of Job with the image only. Bentley BB 325. Kegan Paul unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Songs of Innocence and Experience. A Great English Poetic Work.‎

‎Small 8vo. London: Chatto and Windus 1941. Small 8vo 47pp. Printed cardboard covers. Mild edgewear. Very good. § An attractive little pocket edition part of a series of poets published during the war. Bentley BB A185: Zodiac Books. Chatto and Windus unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 101443

‎Blake William.‎

‎Songs of Innocence and of Experience showing the two contrary states of the human soul. edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Sheperd.‎

‎Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 112 pp. and 8 pp. of ads at the front. Original cloth red printed paper backstrip label darkened some pencil annotations in the text. A very good copy. Ink signature at front of Wm. C. Pritchard. § New edition taken largely from the 1866 edition with some slight changes including an expanded preface and two more poems. Although a typographic issue of the Songs had appeared in 1839 and Gilchrist and Rossetti had included them in the 1863 biography neither of those versions were faithful to Blake’s original text with Rossetti in particular standing accused of efforts at “improvementâ€. The editor of this edition Richard Herne Shepherd gives for the first time in accessible form the exact text of Blake’s idiosyncratic engraved publications of 1789 and 1794 only twenty-two complete copies of each of which survive though omitting lines from “Mary†and from “Auguries of Innocence†which contained the word “whoreâ€. The additional poems two of them previously unpublished are printed from Blake’s original manuscripts. Bentley Blake Books 335 B. Pickering hardcover books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Songs of Innocence and of Experience.‎

‎12mo. London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1911. 12mo 64 pp.In stiff folded wrappers over card covers. Wrappers age-darkened and browned and slightly worn at edges. Very good internally unopened. Printed in red and black with engravings tipped in: these are reduced-sized classical designs not by Blake. § First edition. A beautiful little edition printed in red and black with headpieces not by Blake throughout. Bentley BB 177. Arthur L. Humphreys unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.‎

‎2 vols. Edmonton: William Muir 1885. 2 vols. in one. 4to 34; 30 leaves hand-colored with the original blue-gray wrappers as issued; copies No. 24 Innocence and 11 Experience. Full dark red morocco gilt top gilt-lettered backstrip with gilt device at foot bookplates of Thomas William Waller and Willis Vickery. Very good with tissue guards as issued. § Limited to around 50 copies of each. These are amongst the most alluring and successful of Muir’s facsimiles. Songs of Innocence was taken from the Pearson copy and he is recorded at the end as the publisher in London in 1884 but his death caused Muir to take the project to Quaritch who distributed the whole series. Songs of Experience is taken from the Beckford copy. The general title to both works is found at the end of Experience. Bentley BB 249 a and 249 d. William Muir unknown books‎

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‎Blake William.‎

‎Tate Gallery: William Blake Calendar for 2015.‎

‎Square 4to. London: Tate Gallery 2015. Square 4to 12 pp color illustrated calendar for wall hanging - overall size 30 x 30 cm. With 12 good quality colored designs by Blake from the Tate's holdings mainly from the Large Designs or paintings each 28 x 20.5 cm. As new . Staple bound with repeat of the " Newton" design to cover with hole cut for pinning to wall in each right hand margin. § Tate Gallery unknown books‎

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