William Blake

Name: William Blake
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9780500282458
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William Blake's renowned 'illuminated' books merge his handwritten text with vivid imagery, offering a sensory experience unlike traditional print. This edition, crafted in collaboration with The William Blake Trust, includes all pages from Blake's illuminated works reproduced in their true size, accompanied by an appendix of Blake's texts set in type and an introduction by scholar David Bindman.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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William Blake

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This edition is ideal for art lovers, Blake enthusiasts, and collectors who appreciate finely crafted facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts, as well as scholars interested in the intersection of poetry and visual art.

This 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".

'Sumptuous facsimiles...glorious coloured pages...like peeping into a furnace of light through a crack in the door' London Review of Books

Description

In his illuminated books, William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To have Blake's great prophetic poems—Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, for example—in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them in Blake's own medium, with his sublime and exhilarating colours.

This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blake's twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blake's text set in type, and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman.

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The Birmingham Post hails it as 'astonishing' and 'a magnificent tribute to Blake’s genius', calling it one of the recent publishing triumphs. The London Review of Books praises the 'sumptuous facsimiles' and 'glorious coloured pages' that evoke 'a furnace of light'. The Art Newspaper appreciates the beautiful reproduction of Blake's vibrant images, deeming the edition 'handsome'.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500282458

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 November 2000

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 27 Illustrations, black and white; 366 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 2160g

Pages: 480

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

David Bindman is emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London and has been a research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard since 2010.