Accession number
PML 198245
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827, artist.
Published
Edinburgh : [Michael Phillips], 2018.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2019.
Notes
Title from accompanying letterpress volume.
"Twenty sets of plates ... have been selected and printed by Michael Philips, using an early-nineteenth-century star-wheel rolling-press in the Attic Flat at No. 5 Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh, 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 7, and includes a replica copper plate of 'Proverbs of Hell' (155 x 116 mm), created for the project by Michael Phillips.
"Twenty sets of plates ... have been selected and printed by Michael Philips, using an early-nineteenth-century star-wheel rolling-press in the Attic Flat at No. 5 Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh, 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 7, and includes a replica copper plate of 'Proverbs of Hell' (155 x 116 mm), created for the project by Michael Phillips.
Description
27 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 volume (8 unnumbered pages)
Binding
Issued loose in cream paper chemise, in publisher's pale blue drop-spine box, printed paper label on front; letterpress pamphlet bound in pale blue wrappers with matching printed paper label.
Classification
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