| Durham University Library: | Hall 0122 |
| Durham University Library: | Hall 0122 |
[1]3r, p.[1]
THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF WILLIAM BLAKE FOR THORNTON'S VIRGIL WITH THE FIRST ECLOGUE AND THE IMITATION BY AMBROSE PHILIPS [short swelled rule] THE INTRODUCTION BY GEOFFREY KEYNES [short swelled rule] LONDON THE NONESUCH PRESS 1937
[1]3v, p.[4]
(1,000)
[1-6]8.
1-30, 31-2(one side only), 33-34, 35-6(one side only) 37-8; [16] pencil drawings (as collotypes).
Crown 8o: 9¼"×5¾", cream wove, no mark, all edges untrimmed; Old face Open titling, Walbaum; 17 wood-engravings by Blake + 3 designed by him, + 8 of the engravings also reproduced by line blocks from his original proofs, 16 pencil drawings reproduced as collotypes; casing, white cloth printed with an Italian pattern in grey; printed down spine: ‘Blake's illustrations for Thornton's Virgil’.
[1]4r, p.5
| INTRODUCTION | 7 |
| THE FIRST ECLOGUE OF VIRGIL | 21 |
| AMBROSE PHILIPS'S IMITATION OF ECLOGUE I WITH BLAKE'S ILLUSTRATIONS | 27 |
| PROOFS OF EIGHT OF BLAKE'S BLOCKS IN THEIR ORIGINAL STATE | 41 |
| SIXTEEN OF BLAKE'S PENCIL DESIGNS FOR THE WOOD-ENGRAVINGS | 45 |
| Proofs are loose in a printed wrapper at the end of the volume. | |
Not in Curwen Library.
Durham copy is no. 451
See Dreyfus 1981 cat. 110: details paper, size, type, casing etc.
10/Dec/1937
Robin Phillips, 2021, revised 15/Mar/2023
