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Dust jacket. No annotation, underlining, or highlighting inside. Facsimiles of books Blake etched onto copper plates, thereby combining text and pictures. 366 of 393 plates in color. Followed by typeset transcripts of the texts. 4to, almost Folio. Too large for flat-rate envelope. 480 pp.
This volume presents Blake's work as he meant it to be seen: a marriage between his visionary poetic texts and his masterly engravings. Here, his work is presented in 366 color and 30 black-and-white reproductions. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, JERUSALEM, MILTON, and, indeed all his poems, are heightened by the accompanying artwork, which both interprets and adds complexity to the oeuvre of this significant poet.
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Length:
480 pages
Height:
11.5 in.
Width:
8.5 in.
Thickness:
1.8 in.
Weight:
82.4 oz.
Publisher's Note
"What is now proved was once only imagined." --William Blake. All the illuminated books, reproduced from the best available originals, and in one volume for the first time ever. The nature of William Blake's genius is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. As poet/artist Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words and images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content and beautiful in form. It is only through the pages as originally conceived and published by the poet himself that Blake's meaning can be fully experienced. Blake's hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies and none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now some 400 plates, drawn from The William Blake Trust's acclaimed six-volume Collected Edition, and reproduced under their supervision, provide for the first time ever in one volume what the London Review of Books hailed as "Sumptuous facsimiles . . . glorious colored pages . . . like peeping into a furnace of light through a crack in the door." 400 color illustrations. Includes: Jerusalem Songs of Innocence and of Experience All Religions are One There is No Natural Religion The Book of Thel The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Visions of the Daughters of Albion America a Prophecy Europe a Prophecy The Song of Los Milton a Poem The Ghost of Abel On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil Laocoon The First Book of Urizen The Book of Ahania The Book of Los
Industry reviews
"In a succinct introduction, David Bindman, the author of several authoritative volumes on Blake as an artist, tells how Blake, trained as an engraver, invented a technique for printing word and image together, which he called 'Illuminated' printing." New York Times - Christopher Benfey (12/03/2000)
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