Accession number
PML 198763
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
Edinburgh : [Michael Phillips], 2021.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2022.
Notes
Title from accompanying letterpress volume.
"Ten sets of plates ... have been selected and printed by Michael Philips, on an early-nineteenth-century star-wheel rolling-press, in the Attic Flat at No. 5 Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh, on paper hand-made by Gangolph Uulbricht, Werkstatt für Papier, to reproduce the wove papers that Blake used, with each sheet watermarked W.B. The accompanying letterpress was set in Bell types and printed in Oxford by Richard Lawrence."--Colophon, letterpress volume.
Library's set is number 3 of ten, containing images corresponding to Bentley plates 1-2, 5, 8-12; the accompanying relief-etched copperplate corresponds to Bentley pl. 12.
"Ten sets of plates ... have been selected and printed by Michael Philips, on an early-nineteenth-century star-wheel rolling-press, in the Attic Flat at No. 5 Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh, on paper hand-made by Gangolph Uulbricht, Werkstatt für Papier, to reproduce the wove papers that Blake used, with each sheet watermarked W.B. The accompanying letterpress was set in Bell types and printed in Oxford by Richard Lawrence."--Colophon, letterpress volume.
Library's set is number 3 of ten, containing images corresponding to Bentley plates 1-2, 5, 8-12; the accompanying relief-etched copperplate corresponds to Bentley pl. 12.
Description
8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; approximately 37.7 x 27.5 cm + 1 copper plate (238 x 173 mm) + 1 volume (8 unnumbered pages; 29 x 20 cm)
Summary
Eight monochrome plates from Blake's America, a prophecy, printed from relief-etched plates created by Michael Phillips to simulate Blake's original impressions.
Binding
Issued in publisher's pale blue paper-covered case, printed white label on front; accompanying volume bound in pale blue wrappers with matching paper label.
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