Accession number
PML 199019
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827, author, etcher.
Published
Edinburgh : [Michael Phillips], 2021.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2023.
Notes
Title and imprint from accompanying letterpress volume.
"Ten sets of plates from William Blake's Jerusalem have been selected and printed by Michael Phillips, 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 Paper, 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"--Booklet colophon.
All impressions printed in charcoal black, except for the unique pl. 1 (1st state), which is printed in orange-brown.
Library has set number 3, with 2 proofs of the frontispiece in their (unique) first state, printed in orangish-brown ink, and 1 replica copperplate of pl. 84 (PML 199019.1), as well as a replica copperplate and impression of "London" from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (cataloged separately as PML 199019.2-3).
"Ten sets of plates from William Blake's Jerusalem have been selected and printed by Michael Phillips, 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 Paper, 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"--Booklet colophon.
All impressions printed in charcoal black, except for the unique pl. 1 (1st state), which is printed in orange-brown.
Library has set number 3, with 2 proofs of the frontispiece in their (unique) first state, printed in orangish-brown ink, and 1 replica copperplate of pl. 84 (PML 199019.1), as well as a replica copperplate and impression of "London" from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (cataloged separately as PML 199019.2-3).
Description
28 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 x 28 cm in case (44 x 31 x 3 cm) + 2 copper plates (20.5 x 14.5 cm and 11.4 x 7 cm) + 1 print (19.4 x 14 cm) + 1 volume (8 unnumbered pages ; 29 cm)
Summary
Impressions of replica plates from Jerusalem, citing Bentley numbers: nos. 1 (state 1), 1 (state 2), 2, 4, 6, 19, 25, 26, 28, 37, 41, 32, 47, 51, 53, 62, 70, 73, 76, 77, 78, 81, 84, 87, 93, 97, 98, and 100, printed in 2022 and 2023 from the relief-etched plates created by Michael Phillips using both photo-mechanical and manual techniques.
Binding
Loose leaves issued in publisher's pale blue paper-covered clamshell case, printed white label on front; accompanying volume bound in pale blue wrappers with matching paper label.
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