Blake was not just a poet; nor was he just a book publisher. He was
also an artist who developed a unique method of etching in relief
so that text and illustration could be mixed on the page. Each book
of his poetry was unique, illustrated with his brilliantly
distinctive pictures, varying slightly in colour, page order, and
sometimes even text. The processes were laborious but the results
magical, and in this collection of the complete texts, the
reproductions do real justice to the beauty of the original pages.
For any Blake fans, at last this is an affordable way to own
high-quality reproductions of his beautiful illustrations, and to
see his poems in the contexts he placed them. (Kirkus UK)
In his Illuminated Books, William Blake combined text and imagery
on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle
Ages. For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind
and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his
work is expressive of his personal mythology, and his methods of
conveying it were integral to its meaning. There is no comparison
with reading books such as Jerusalem, America, and Songs of
Innocence and of Experience in Blake's own medium, infused with his
sublime and exhilarating colors. Tiny figures and forms dance among
the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense
passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by
startling images of death, destruction, and liberation. 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, for the first time, the plates from the
William Blake Trust's Collected Edition have been brought together
in a single volume, with transcripts of the texts and an
introduction by the noted scholar David Bindman. 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.
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