The antiquarian Joseph Ritson included in this selection several engravings by Blake after work by Thomas Stothard. Two are shown here. The book was published by Joseph Johnson (1738–1809), who also published work by Mary Wollstonecraft and other radical writers of the day. Johnson published many of Blake's early engravings after other artists and is thought to have been the anonymous publisher, the same year, of Poetical Sketches, Blake's first book of poetry. Between 1770 and 1801 he published more than a hundred engraved plates by Blake.
Joseph Ritson (1752-1803; compiler), A Select Collection of English Songs, London, Vol. 1 of 3, PML 128117