Accession number
PML 953
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London] : Printed by W. Blake, 1804.
Credit line
Purchase; Toovey collection; 1899.
Notes
According to Viscomi, p. 351, Blake sold this copy to William Young Ottley in 1827; it was delivered four days after Blake's death in August (Viscomi, p. 357).
Copy F
Relief etchings, printed in black.
This copy printed about 1827.
Three proof sheets (Keynes 28 = PML 9948.16; 45 = PML 9948.27, 56 = PML 9948.18) once tipped in are now housed separately.
Uncolored copy; 100 leaves from engr. plates containing both text and text and illustrations.
Viscomi identifies the weaker, oil-based sequence numbers as being in Blake's hand; those in the second hand by Linnell, who received the plates for Ottley and numbered them after his own copy, Copy C (p. 357-60).
Watermark: 1826.
Copy F
Relief etchings, printed in black.
This copy printed about 1827.
Three proof sheets (Keynes 28 = PML 9948.16; 45 = PML 9948.27, 56 = PML 9948.18) once tipped in are now housed separately.
Uncolored copy; 100 leaves from engr. plates containing both text and text and illustrations.
Viscomi identifies the weaker, oil-based sequence numbers as being in Blake's hand; those in the second hand by Linnell, who received the plates for Ottley and numbered them after his own copy, Copy C (p. 357-60).
Watermark: 1826.
Description
100 plates (2 p.l., text, 94 plates, 4 plates) ; 31 cm
Provenance
William Young Ottley; Burnham Abbey bookplate of the Toovey collection; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Red straight grained morocco, signed F. Bedford; in 1/2 red morocco box.
Classification
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