William Blake. A Critical Essay. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. With Illustrations From Blake's Designs In Facsimile, Coloured And Plain. Second Edition.
London:: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly., 1868. [All rights reserved.]
Physical Description
iv, [4], 304 p., frontis., add. engr. t.pl., [7] pl.; 219 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[Frontis., add. engr. t.pl., t.p., dedic.] - Contents - List Of Illustrations - List Of Authorities - [Text, with pl.]; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
The printer is named in the colophon: 'Bradbury, Evans, And Co., Printers, Whitefriars.'
The work is dedicated by the author to William Michael Rossetti.
References
G.E. Bentley, Stranger from Paradise: a biography of William Blake (2001).
Summary Note
The text is in three parts: I. Life And Designs (p.1-84); II. Lyrical Poems (p.85-184); III. The Prophetic Books (p.185-304).
The frontispiece shows a plate from 'Jerusalem'; the added engraved title-plate incorporates motifs from three Blake poems. The remaining seven plates show plates from 'The Book Of Thel' (facing p.200), 'The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell' (facing pp. 204, 208, 224), 'Milton' (facing p.258) and 'Jerusalem' (facing pp. 276, 282).
Binding Note
19th-century half red morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'William Blake. Swinburne.' and 'R.A.'
Artists - Painters - Engravers - Poets - Great Britain - London - History - 18th century - 19th century
Biography - Art history - Criticism - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century