The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil : with the first Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips; the introduction by Geoffrey Keynes
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
The Nonsuch Press,
1937
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| Item Description: | Blank versos of paged-in plates not counted Folder of 17 plates in pocket The set of prints in pocket "taken direct from electrotypes of the wood-blocks." This is copy no. 981 Twenty woodcuts illustrating Ambrose Philips' Imitation of Eclogue I in the Pastorals of Virgil ... By Robert John Thornton. 3d ed. London, 1821. All were engraved by Blake with 3 exceptions which were re-engraved from his designs by another hand " This edition ... is limited to one thousand copies." "The woodcuts were first reproduced and published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine in 1899. They were reproduced again, with an introduction by Lawrence Binyon, for the Unicorn Press, London, in 1902. Enlarged facsimiles in platinotype were made by Frederic H. Evans and issued privately in 1912. The two sheets of proofs were reproduced side-by-side with the prints as they appeared in the book in the Burlington magazine, December, 1920." |
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| Physical Description: | 38 p., 1 l. : incl. illus., plates. ; 24 cm |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London |