BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Songs of Innocence 1789 The Author & Printer W Blake _Post 8vo, light brown levant morocco, gilt and mosaic back, side borders in floral mosaic design of citron, blue and green morocco on a red ground, doubled with red morocco, corner ornaments in floral mosaic, gilt over uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
Coloured by Blake and presented by him to his physician.
The plates are arranged as follows, by pages:
Page 1. Blank. 2. Frontispiece of Piper. 3. Title of "Songs of Innocence," as above. 4. Blank. 5. Introduction, "Piping down the valleys wild," etc. 6. Blank. 7. The Shepherd. 8. Infant Joy. 9-10. Cradle Song. 11. Laughing Song. 12-13. The Little Black Boy. 14. The Voice of the Ancient Bard. 15-16. The Ecchoing Green. 17. Nurses Song, "When the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill." 18. Holy Thursday, "'T was on a Holy Thursday." 19. On Anothers Sorrow. 20-21. Spring. 22. The School Boy. 23. A Dream. 24-25. The Little Girl Lost, "In Futurity I prophetic see." 25-26. The Little Girl Found, "All the night in woe." 27. The Blossom. 28. The Lamb. 29. The Little Boy lost. 30. The Little Boy found. 31-32. Night. 33. The Chimney Sweeper, "When my mother died," etc. 34. The Divine Image.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--Songs of Innocence. 1789. _Post 8vo, original calf, gilt back, side borders, centre ornaments._
Another copy, also coloured by Blake, and more delicately than the preceding, pale green and blue predominating.
The plates are the same as in the preceding copy. On the basis of the numbers in that copy, their arrangement is as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12-13, 14, 9-10, 27, 24-25, 25-26, 28, 17, 8, 19, 29, 30, 33, 20-21, 22, 11, 23, 18, 34, 15-16, 31-32.
BLAKE, WILLIAM.--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. [1790] _Royal 8vo, Spanish calf, gilt back, side borders._
The arrangement is as follows, by pages:--
1. Title-page. 2. Blank. 3. The Argument. 4. Blank. 5. "As a new heaven is begun," with two drawings. 6. The voice of the Devil, with one drawing. 7-8. "Those who restrain desire," with one drawing. 8-9. A Memorable Fancy, "As I was walking among the fires of hell." 9-12. Proverbs of Hell, one drawing. 13. "The ancient Poets," etc., two drawings. 14-15. A Memorable Fancy, "The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel." 16. "The ancient tradition," etc., one drawing. 17. A Memorable Fancy, "I was in a Printing house in Hell," one drawing. 18-19. "The Giants who formed this world," one drawing. 19-22. A Memorable Fancy, "An Angel came to me," one drawing. 23-24. "I have always found," etc., one drawing. 24-26. A Memorable Fancy, "Once I saw a Devil," one drawing. 27-29. A Song of Liberty. 30. Blank.