(Provensen, Alice and Martin) illustrators. A VISIT TO WILLIAM BLAKE'S INN: POEMS FOR INNOCENT AND EXPERIENCED TRAVELERS by Nancy Willard; illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen. New York; London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1981], (1981). STATED FIRST EDITION. 4to - 10-1/4" x 8-3/16". Tan cloth backed cocoa brown paper covered boards with blind-stamped image of a young traveler to front cover, lettering stamped in copper to spine, and a star stamped in black to back cover for what is basically an as new copy of the book. Publisher's original color pictorial price-clipped DUST WRAPPER for what otherwise is basically an as new example of the dust wrapper. Plain endpapers. 44, [1] pp. This copy is signed by both Alice and Martin Provensen on the half-title page. The book is a collection "of magical poems about life at an imaginary inn, run by none other than by William Blake himself."; inspired by Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience; illustrated by the Provensens with gouache over pen and ink drawings throughout, many of which being full page. This title won the 1982 Newbery Award plus was a 1982 Caldecott runner up. The condition of the book is FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is NEAR FINE. # 000779