Shelfmark
He1.5.06
Author
Title
The marriage of heaven and hell.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London : s.n., 1868?]
Physical description
27, [1] p. : ill. ; 25cm. (4to).
Note
Anonymous. By the printer, William Blake.
Note
Includes: "A song of liberty", pp.25-27.
Note
Twenty-seven relief-etched plates, including the titlepage; facsimile probably hand coloured.
Note
Format varies from copy to copy.
Note
"The date of publication is almost certainly 1793" (Bentley); Keynes tends more to 1790 as the date the plates were completed. Blake in fact used the same plates--with alterations--to print off copies as late as 1827.
Note
Unsure of date of Eton copy.
Note
19th century facsimile of Blake's The marraige of heaven and hell, published at Lambeth, printed by William Blake in 1793? ; possibly by William Muir.
Citation/references note
Bentley, G. Blake books, 98; Keynes, G. A bibliography of William Blake, 39; ESTC N34920
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton School Library; Armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Binding
19th? century quarter green calf; red boards; marbled endpapers; gilt spine title.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B19996