Accession number
PML 62442
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London] : The Author & Printer W Blake, [1822]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne; 1972.
Notes
Date from Viscomi; place from biographical information.
Each plate surrounded by four ink-lined frames; all but nos. 47 and 52 with pale watercolor wash creating colored borders (see Thorne coll. for various colors).
Includes separate t.p. for each part, dated 1789 and 1794, respectively, with Blake as author and printer on t.p.
Part of a reprinting of some titles about 1822.
Printed text and outlines in light orange on rectos only; watercolor added by hand, some figures clarified with ink.
Probably colored by Blake (as in other copies).
This is copy V, the only one following Blake's "Order" (Keynes' numbers): Innocence: 1-4, 6-8, 5, 25, 9-10, 15, 22-23, 16-17, 24, 19, 11-12, 18, 20-21, 26-27, 13-14; Experience: 28-31, 38, 40, 42, 34-36, 32, 45, 33, 49, 41, 39, 52, 54, 43-44, 50, 48, 53, 46, 51, 37, 47.
Each plate surrounded by four ink-lined frames; all but nos. 47 and 52 with pale watercolor wash creating colored borders (see Thorne coll. for various colors).
Includes separate t.p. for each part, dated 1789 and 1794, respectively, with Blake as author and printer on t.p.
Part of a reprinting of some titles about 1822.
Printed text and outlines in light orange on rectos only; watercolor added by hand, some figures clarified with ink.
Probably colored by Blake (as in other copies).
This is copy V, the only one following Blake's "Order" (Keynes' numbers): Innocence: 1-4, 6-8, 5, 25, 9-10, 15, 22-23, 16-17, 24, 19, 11-12, 18, 20-21, 26-27, 13-14; Experience: 28-31, 38, 40, 42, 34-36, 32, 45, 33, 49, 41, 39, 52, 54, 43-44, 50, 48, 53, 46, 51, 37, 47.
Description
54 leaves : ill. (relief printed etchings, watercolor) ; 34 cm
Provenance
Formerly owned by Thomas Butts (according to Keynes & Wolf but not so identified by Bentley); probably from Blake directly to James Vine, sold posthumously (Christie's 24 April 1838, lot 299) to dealer Henry G. Bohn; offered in Bohn's catalogs 1841, lot 177, and 1843, lot 1123); Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton; his son the Earl of Crewe (his sale Sotheby's, 30 March 1903, lot 1, to Quaritch); Algernon Methuen (sold Sotheby's 19 Feb. 1936, lot 499, to A.S.W. Rosenbach); Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Binding
3/4 tan calf, gold-tooled, blue marbled boards.
Classification
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