Accession number
PML 198244
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827, artist.
Published
Oxford : [Michael Phillips], 2016.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2019.
Notes
Title from accompanying letterpress volume (29 x 20 cm).
Laid into case is a black and white photograph of the rolling-press in Oxford by David Stumpp, signed and dated 15 June 2016 on verso (28.7 x 19.4 cm).
"Twenty sets of plates ... have been selected and printed by Michael Philips, using a replica of Blake's rolling-press installed in the Upper Library at Christ Church, Oxford, on paper hand-made by W.S. Hodgkinson and Co. around 1927. The accompanying letterpress was set in Bell types and printed by Paul W. Nash at the Strawberry Press, Moreton-in-Marsh."--Colophon, letterpress volume.
Library's copy numbered 3, printed in blue-green with embossment, and includes a replica copper plate (115 x 73 mm) of the poem Holy Thursday, created for the project by Michael Phillips.
Laid into case is a black and white photograph of the rolling-press in Oxford by David Stumpp, signed and dated 15 June 2016 on verso (28.7 x 19.4 cm).
"Twenty sets of plates ... have been selected and printed by Michael Philips, using a replica of Blake's rolling-press installed in the Upper Library at Christ Church, Oxford, on paper hand-made by W.S. Hodgkinson and Co. around 1927. The accompanying letterpress was set in Bell types and printed by Paul W. Nash at the Strawberry Press, Moreton-in-Marsh."--Colophon, letterpress volume.
Library's copy numbered 3, printed in blue-green with embossment, and includes a replica copper plate (115 x 73 mm) of the poem Holy Thursday, created for the project by Michael Phillips.
Description
41 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28.5 x 19.5 cm in case 32.5 x 22.5 + 1 volume (8 unnumbered pages) + 1 photograph
Binding
Issued loose in cream paper chemise, in publisher's pale blue drop-spine box, printed paper label on front.
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