No work has challenged its readers like Blake's" The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell." Blake's "Proverbs of Hell"--by turns
iconoclastic, bizarre, and unprecedented--have been employed as the
slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought.
Most extraordinary, though, is the revolutionary method Blake
employed in making the physical book. The Bodleian Library holds
one of the first copies that Blake printed using a technique he
called "illuminated printing," and it is the only work in which he
signifies its importance.
This new facsimile edition of" The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
includes a plate-by-plate guide to the texts, interlinear figures,
and larger designs in a commentary accompanying the transcript of
each reproduced plate. Drawings from Blake's manuscript notebook,
which were used as a basis for the designs, as well as working
proof impressions, are also included, demonstrating the evolution
of the work. This edition also reproduces a single plate from each
of the other eight surviving copies, revealing how over a period of
more than thirty years Blake altered the way he finished each copy.
An introduction explores the book's literary and historical
background, Blake's printing process, and the book's anonymous
initial publication.
This expertly edited work is available for students and scholars
in paperback and for collectors in a special hardcover edition.
Both versions allow Blake's vision to reassert its breathtaking
power.
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