The gates of paradise: PB 1888.1

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Titles

The gates of paradise

Maker(s)

Author: Blake, William
Hughes, Mary
Muir, William
Agent: Bernard Quaritch

Description

By Wm. Blake, Lambeth 1793; facsimilied at Edmonton, anno 1888, by Mary Hughes and Wm. Muir.

Cover title.
Title page of the original reads: For children. The gates of paradise. 1793. Published by W. Blake ... and J. Johnson ...
The facsimile t.p. is from the edition designated "For children"; the other plates are from the revised edition (ca. 1818) designated "For the sexes."
Text (preceding front. and t.-p. of facsim.) consists of "Prologue" (10 lines beginning: Mutual forgiveness of each Vice); The keys of the gates (3 l.) The 16 numbered plates are followed by a last leaf (illus.): To the accuser who is God of This World ... (from For the sexes)

With separate card containing notes in pencil on Blake.

References: Keynes, G.L. A bibl. of W. Blake, 217n.

Iv, [19] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm

Place(s) associated

London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1990) by Forrester, Helen

Dating

Production date: AD 1888

Note

Limited ed. of 50 numbered copies, this being no.14 signed by William Muir. Bookplates of Greville Matheson MacDonald and Laurence W. Hodson on inside cover. Bound in blue card wrapper.