Accession number
PML 63940.1-10
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London] : The author and printer W. Blake, [1788]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1973.
Notes
Copy I.
This copy comprises 8 facsimile plates, printed in the late 19th century, and 2 duplicate plates (PML 63940.1-.2) that are in fact authentic impressions of relief-etched plates printed by Blake ca. 1794.
According to Viscomi, the eight facsimile plates were likely part of an aborted facsimile project modeled after Blake’s Copy C and possibly produced by kerography around 1870 (see Viscomi, Blake and the Idea of the Book, pp. 198-216).
This copy comprises 8 facsimile plates, printed in the late 19th century, and 2 duplicate plates (PML 63940.1-.2) that are in fact authentic impressions of relief-etched plates printed by Blake ca. 1794.
According to Viscomi, the eight facsimile plates were likely part of an aborted facsimile project modeled after Blake’s Copy C and possibly produced by kerography around 1870 (see Viscomi, Blake and the Idea of the Book, pp. 198-216).
Description
8 leaves, plus 2 leaves of duplicates ; 22 cm.
Provenance
Stopford Brooke and R.A. Potts; H. Buxton Forman; George C. Smith, Jr.; Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Binding
10 leaves mounted on 5 mats.
Classification
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