William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books
With an Introduction by David Bindman
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| ‘Astonishing . . . a magnificent tribute to Blake’s genius . . . one of the publishing triumphs of recent years’ | | – The Birmingham Post |
In his ‘illuminated’ books, William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To have Blake’s great prophetic poems - Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, for example - in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them in Blake’s own medium, with his sublime and exhilarating colours.
This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blake’s twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blake’s text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman.
Aslo of interest:
Samuel Palmer: The Sketchbook of 1824
British Painting: The Golden Age – from Hogarth to Turner
Athanasius Kircher: A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500282455 | | ISBN-13 978-0500282458 | | | | 29.7 x 21.0 cm | | Paperback | | 480pp | | 393 illustrations, 366 in colour | | First published 2000 | | | | £29.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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