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  William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books (Paperback) By (author) David Bindman

  

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  Short Description for William BlakeThis volume contains every page of Blake's 20 or so illuminated books, reproduced in facsimile. It features his great prophetic poems, for example, "Jersualem" and "Songs of Innocence and of Experience".
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  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Published: 27 November 2000
  • Format: Paperback 480 pages
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  • Categories: Art History | Prints | Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Illustration | Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9780500282458 ISBN 10: 0500282455
  • Sales rank: 23,339

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Full description for William Blake

• The nature of William Blake's genius is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. As poet/artist Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words and images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content and beautiful in form. It is only through the pages as originally conceived and published by the poet himself that Blake's meaning can be fully experienced. Blake's hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies and none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now some 400 plates, drawn from the William Blake Trust's acclaimed six-volume Collected Edition, and reproduced under their supervision, provide for the first time ever in one volume what the London Review of Books hailed as 'sumptuous facsimiles...glorious coloured pages...like peeping into a furnace of light through a crack in the door'.