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Standing cover shows hardbound marble boarded design as well as cut (with some uncut) pages.

Original illustrations by Franz Buchholz from the 1870 edition. This one portrays male-male sado-masochism/bound and whipped. 

Original illustrations by Franz Buchholz from the 1870 edition. This one portrays Venus without her furs.

Original illustrations by Franz Buchholz from the 1870 edition. This one portrays the protagonist bound and whipped by three of his mistress's servants. 

This image showcases the book's pages, many of which remain uncut.

John Glassco's signature on copy no. 4 of 26 special editions.

Front matter contains printing and design details of the special series.

Illustrated portrait of Glassco included in Memoirs of Montparnasse by Adolf Dehn, Paris 1928. 

Frontispiece of BLAST 1

Cover page of Rubaiyat of Omar khayam translated by Edward Fitzgerald published by John Lane publisher in London in 1901

List of additional publications from John Lane. Unlike the first volume of BLAST, which boasted blue lines around its publisher advertisement pages, this one is entrapped by a black border, due to the unavailability of blue ink.

Publisher's advertisements from BLAST 1, featuring a blue rubrication (unlike BLAST 2)

Photo of "St Martin's House," 70 Bond Street, Toronto, home of Macmillan of Canada, [n.d.]

Segment of a facsimile copy of John Rocque's Plan of the City of Dublin, published in London in 1756. The red dot shows the approximate location of No. 58 Dame-Street, the eventual location of Caleb Jenkin's bookshop.

This is the title page to the book: A Little Book of Songs and Ballads 

"The Kynge's Ballade" song from A Little Book of Songs and Ballads 

The second page of the song "The Kynges Ballade" on page 38 in Rimbault's A Little Book of Songs and Ballads 

This is the first page of the table of contents for A Little Book of Songs and Ballads

The second page of A Little Book of Songs and Ballads Table of Contents