Accession number
PML 77235.1-10
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
Lambeth : Printed by Will. Blake, 1794.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1972.
Notes
Copy G
Frontispiece sometimes called "Ancient of Days", leaf measures 360 x 245 mm; plate measures 234 x 168 mm.
Frontispiece and t.p. unnumbered; plate numbers printed in blue.
Plates 3-16 printed on both sides of leaf.
Leaves 6 and 8 watermarked: "I. Taylor".
Relief etchings.
Color-printed in green, reddish brown, yellow ochre, and black; finished in watercolor.
Once bound with Song of Los (copy C, Morgan Library, PML 77236) and Visions of the Daughters of Albion (copy H, now Rosenbach Foundation). Probably disbound by 1905 by W.A. White (see Bentley).
Library's copy, as most copies, does not contain plate iii, "Five windows light ...".
Removed from half red straight-grained morocco binding housed in case by Lakeside Pess, Chicago, (retained).
Frontispiece sometimes called "Ancient of Days", leaf measures 360 x 245 mm; plate measures 234 x 168 mm.
Frontispiece and t.p. unnumbered; plate numbers printed in blue.
Plates 3-16 printed on both sides of leaf.
Leaves 6 and 8 watermarked: "I. Taylor".
Relief etchings.
Color-printed in green, reddish brown, yellow ochre, and black; finished in watercolor.
Once bound with Song of Los (copy C, Morgan Library, PML 77236) and Visions of the Daughters of Albion (copy H, now Rosenbach Foundation). Probably disbound by 1905 by W.A. White (see Bentley).
Library's copy, as most copies, does not contain plate iii, "Five windows light ...".
Removed from half red straight-grained morocco binding housed in case by Lakeside Pess, Chicago, (retained).
Description
17 plates printed on 10 leaves : relief etchings ; Approximate leaf measurement: 360 x 245 mm; approximate image size: 235 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Note laid in case: "This copy was bought by Mr. Perry from Quaritch in 1899 and sold by him to Mr. White, March, 1908." Sold by H.A. Mair at Puttick & Simpson's, 19 Nov. 1900, lot 338 (with 3 watercolor drawings) to Quaritch, who sold the composite volume to M. J. Perry; acquired by W.A. White in 1908; given to his daughter, Frances White Emerson in July 1917; sold posthumously at Sotheby's 1958, lot 4, to John F. Fleming; thence to Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Binding
Matted, in case.
Classification
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