Accession number
PML 45593
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London] : The author and printer W. Blake, [1788]
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1953.
Notes
Copy L
Large paper copy.
Relief etched, printed in green with occasional brown-black over-printing and some reinforcement with pen, on wove paper about 12 x 9 inches, b2, b6, b9 watermarked I TAYLOR [Heawood 3441]. Each plate is bordered by 4 to 5 ruled framing lines in pen and gray-black ink.
On first page in pencil in Muir's hand at upper right: Wm. Muir Edmonton 1886; below, "Page III is missing in this copy as it is also in all other copies that I have seen or had description of. The page sometimes put in its place does not belong to this book. This one inserted here does."
This copy belonged to William Muir and was used in the printing of his facsimile in 1886. It comprises: Series A: T.p. and conclusion; Series B: Frontispiece, propositions I, II, IV-VII and "Therefore God becomes as we are that we may be as he is," Arrangement: Keynes a.1, b.2, b.3, b.4, a.10, b.6, b.7, b.8, b.9, b.11. [Four other leaves from Muir's collection (a³, a⁴, a⁸, b¹⁰) were in the collection of Geoffrey Keynes, b.10 being unique (now PML 75228). They were lot 470 in sale, Sotheby's, July 21, 1953. £42].
Large paper copy.
Relief etched, printed in green with occasional brown-black over-printing and some reinforcement with pen, on wove paper about 12 x 9 inches, b2, b6, b9 watermarked I TAYLOR [Heawood 3441]. Each plate is bordered by 4 to 5 ruled framing lines in pen and gray-black ink.
On first page in pencil in Muir's hand at upper right: Wm. Muir Edmonton 1886; below, "Page III is missing in this copy as it is also in all other copies that I have seen or had description of. The page sometimes put in its place does not belong to this book. This one inserted here does."
This copy belonged to William Muir and was used in the printing of his facsimile in 1886. It comprises: Series A: T.p. and conclusion; Series B: Frontispiece, propositions I, II, IV-VII and "Therefore God becomes as we are that we may be as he is," Arrangement: Keynes a.1, b.2, b.3, b.4, a.10, b.6, b.7, b.8, b.9, b.11. [Four other leaves from Muir's collection (a³, a⁴, a⁸, b¹⁰) were in the collection of Geoffrey Keynes, b.10 being unique (now PML 75228). They were lot 470 in sale, Sotheby's, July 21, 1953. £42].
Description
10 leaves ; 34 cm.
Provenance
William Muir; purchased Sotheby's, July 21, 1953, lot 469 via Jacob Schwartz.
Binding
Bound in brown paper wrappers, inscribed in black ink in hand of William Muir: There is No Natural Religion By Wm Blake. In blue oasis box.
Classification
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