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1925 · 6682 — Cowper School Olney etc: The Blake Society 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Manuscript and typescript William Blake collection compiled by the scholar and university librarian Queen's University Belfast and Liverpool University Kenneth Povey and his Cambridge friend Basil Mackenzie. This archival collection is housed within the binding of a Blake Society imprint from 1925 The Heads of the Poets which has been cased in a bespoke turquoise buckram binding with the ownership inscription of 'B.W.F. Mackenzie London 1925' on the printed wrappers and 'Amulee' on the first blank. Basil William Sholto Mackenzie 2nd Baron Amulee was a Cambridge friend of the Blake scholar and twice university librarian Kenneth Povey whose manuscript and typescript research into Blake's Heads of the Poets fills the pocket installed by Amulee inside the lower cover. Kenneth Povey 1898-1965 published widely on eighteenth century poetry and is credited by G. E. Bentley with correcting several misattributions of Blake Heads of the Poets. This collection of his research suggests that he also assisted other scholars with their Blake researches: Kenneth Povey The Heads of the Poets continued ff 6 Manuscript article Kenneth Povey typed copy letter and four page article with manuscript corrections April 27 1926 'Dear Mr Haward I enclose a revised and much shortened version of my notes on the Heads of the Poets.' Kenneth Povey 'Copy of Notes sent to Lawrence Havard March 20' ff 4; typed notes on each of the heads with manuscript corrections. Kenneth Povey ff 11 and pencil drawing: typed notes on the heads Foldout diagram on graph paper of 'Dimensions of Blake's heads.' K. Povey Blake's Heads of the Poets printed sheet torn from Notes and Queries For Friendship Sake William Blake and William Hayley City Art Gallery Manchester 1969 - exhibition catalogue. With invitation to private view. William Blake's "Heads of the Poets" For Turret House The Residence of William Hayley Felpham. Guide Book. Very Good 1925 The Blake Society hardcover