The Wood engravings of William Blake: seventeen subjects commissioned by Dr. Robert Thornton for his Virgil of 1821, newly printed from the original blocks now in the British Museum

with an introduction by Andrew Wilton

Resource Type:: Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:: [London] : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, 1977

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Contributors:: Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837
Blake, William, 1757-1827
Philips, Ambrose, 1674-1749
British Museum
William Blake Collection
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Related Works:: Blake's wood engravings
Subjects:: Blake, William, 1757-1827
Virgil — Illustrations
Virgil
Genres:: Illustrated works
General Notes:: Title on container: Blake's wood engravings.
"150 sets of impressions from Blake's original wood blocks have been printed of which 135 are for sale numbered 1-135. This accompanying text published February 1977."--p. [4]. NTSU has no. 101.
Woodcuts illustrating Ambrose Philips' Pastoral in imitation of Virgil's First Eclogue. Includes text of Philips' poem.
In box, as issued.
Seventeen of the plates are in separate folders laid in box.
Physical Description:: 36 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
Call Numbers:: NE1147.6.B56 W67 1977
ISBNs:: 0714107492
OCLC Numbers:: 3158570