Accession number
PML 196265
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
London : Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1927.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2016.
Notes
Title and imprint from cover.
At head of title: Blake Centenary 1927.
"From the Beaconsfield original in the British Museum (22 plates) with, as an appendix, (four plates from the other British Museum copy). Also one plate for which no colouring is known. (A Divine Image) which seems to belong to the Songs though not included in them by Blake"--Printed on front cover.
Hand-colored facsimile chiefly of Bentley copy A; four plates from copy T; and plate b (Bentley citing David V. Erdman). According to BlakeArchive.org, plate b is from copy BB (private collection).
From an edition of presumably fifty copies.
Printed on verso of final leaf: "Made in Great Britain / Copy No." [inscribed in ink:] 25 / Wm. Muir.
At head of title: Blake Centenary 1927.
"From the Beaconsfield original in the British Museum (22 plates) with, as an appendix, (four plates from the other British Museum copy). Also one plate for which no colouring is known. (A Divine Image) which seems to belong to the Songs though not included in them by Blake"--Printed on front cover.
Hand-colored facsimile chiefly of Bentley copy A; four plates from copy T; and plate b (Bentley citing David V. Erdman). According to BlakeArchive.org, plate b is from copy BB (private collection).
From an edition of presumably fifty copies.
Printed on verso of final leaf: "Made in Great Britain / Copy No." [inscribed in ink:] 25 / Wm. Muir.
Description
[27] leaves : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription on verso of front cover: "Made in Great Britain / Copy No. 25 / Wm. Muir.
Binding
Publisher's green-grey printed wrappers, backed in brown paper. Housed in quarter brown morocco case, spine lettered in gold.
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