Books

1983. Manchester: Manchester Etching Workshop, 1983. 4to, 16 hand coloured and one uncoloured facsimile plates, each mounted on brown card in a full brown morocco 3-part folding binding with gilt embossed replicas of the "Innocence" and "Experience" title pages as decorations on two of the covers. Fine as issued, all in a deep brown cloth folding box. § The colored facsimile volume only (as issued). De luxe issue of the limited edition of 40 copies, this being #V of V (i.e. five) copies with an extra plate ("Infant Sorrow"). Accompanied by Joseph Viscomi's " The Art Of William Blake's Illuminated Prints" as part of the edition, but this limited to 200 copies. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement 135. Essick, Blake Quarterly, Summer 1985: "In many ways one of the most accurate facsimiles ever published, and beyond question the most accurate hand-colored reproduction of plates from an illuminated book. To my eyes, it is also one of the two or three most beautiful facsimiles…

A collection of illustrated poems by William Blake exploring the dichotomy of innocence and experience.