Accession number
PML 63941
Creator
Malkin, Benjamin Heath, 1769-1842.
Published
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1806.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1973.
Notes
Portrait surrounded by a design by William Blake.
The pref. in form of an introductory letter to Thomas Johnes of Hafod, contains (p. xviii-xli) an account of Blake and 5 of his poems.
Contains the first published biographical sketch of Blake, a criticism of his poetry, and five poems from his Poetical sketches, Songs of innocence and Songs of experience, reprinted in full.
The front. contains an oval port. of the child, T.W. Malkin, by Paye, surrounded by a design by Blake, the whole engr. by Cromek.
The book is an account of an infant prodigy who died at the age of seven. Many of his stories, letters, drawings and a map are reproduced.
The pref. in form of an introductory letter to Thomas Johnes of Hafod, contains (p. xviii-xli) an account of Blake and 5 of his poems.
Contains the first published biographical sketch of Blake, a criticism of his poetry, and five poems from his Poetical sketches, Songs of innocence and Songs of experience, reprinted in full.
The front. contains an oval port. of the child, T.W. Malkin, by Paye, surrounded by a design by Blake, the whole engr. by Cromek.
The book is an account of an infant prodigy who died at the age of seven. Many of his stories, letters, drawings and a map are reproduced.
Description
[4], xlviii, [1]-172 p. : illus., port., fold. map ; 26 cm.
Provenance
Thomas B. Mosher (bookplate); Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Binding
Greenish boards; cream-colored paper spine; original deckle edges.
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