William Blake's commercial book illustrations : a catalogue and study of the plates engraved by Blake after designs by other artists

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William Blake's commercial book illustrations : a catalogue and study of the plates engraved by Blake after designs by other artists

Robert N. Essick

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991

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William Blake (1757-1827) is regarded today as one of England's major artists and poets, but in his own time he was known principally as a professional engraver. The book illustrations he executed after designs by other artists form a significant part of his graphic productions. These prints are described and reproduced in this catalogue providing information on states, preliminary drawings and the relationships between Blake's prints and the texts they accompany. The 295 illustrations include Blake's copy prints published in books and a selection of the preliminary drawings from which he worked. Blake's apprentice engravings and the prints falsely attributed to him are treated in appendices. The introductory essay explores how Blake's work as a copy engraver provided the cultural and commercial matrix shaping his original designs and writing and how a study of reproductive graphics contributes to our understanding of an artist and his society.

Table of Contents

  • "The Speaker"(1780), W.Enfield
  • "Fencing Familiarized"(1780), J.Olivier
  • "The Royal Universal Family Bible"(1780)
  • "A Proposition for a New Order in Architecture"(1781), H.Emlyn
  • "A New and Complete Universal History of the Holy Bible"(c1781) and "The Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus"(c1785-6), E.Kempton
  • "The Protestant's Family Bible"(c1781)
  • "An Introduction to Mensuration"(1782), J.Bonnycastle
  • "An Introduction to Natural Philosophy"(1782), W.Nicholson
  • "The Poetical Works"(1782), J.Scott
  • "The Poetical Works"(1782), G.Chaucer
  • "The Novelist's Magazine"(1782-3) and "The History of Sir Charles Grandison"(c1811), J.Richardson
  • "Orlando Furioso"(1783), L.Ariosto
  • "Memoirs of Albert de Haller"(1783), T.Henry
  • "A Select Collection of English Songs"(1783), J.Ritson
  • "A Complete Geographical Dictionary"(c1784), J.Seally and I.Lyons, "The New Royal Geographical Magazine"(c1793), M.Adams and "The New Royal System of Universal Geography"(c1794)
  • "The Wit's Magazine"(1784)
  • "A New System of Geography"(1785-6), D.Fenning and J.Collyer
  • "Aphorisms on Man "(1788), J.C.Lavater
  • Essays on Physiognomy"(1789-98), J.C.Lavater
  • "The Original Works of William Hogarth"(1790)
  • "The Botanic Garden"(1791) and "The Poetical Works"(1806), E.Darwin
  • "Observations on Man", D.Hartley
  • "Elements of Morality"(1791), C.G.Salzmann
  • "Bellamy's Picturesque Magazine"(1793)
  • "Practical Observations on the Operation for the Stone"(1793), J.Earle
  • "Fables"(1793), J.Gay
  • "An Historical Journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island"(1793), J.Hunter
  • "The Antiquities of Athens Volume III"(1794), J.Stuart and N.Revett
  • "The Elements of Medicine"(1795), J.Brown
  • "Poems of Catullus"(1795)
  • "An Attempt to Describe Hafod"(1796), G.Cumberland
  • "Thoughts on Outline"(17 96) and "Outlines from the Antients"(1829), G.Cumberland
  • "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam"(1796), J.G.Stedman
  • "Elements of Algebra"(1797), L.Euler
  • "The Monthly Magazine and British Register"(1797)
  • "A New and Inproved History of England"(1798), C.Allen
  • "A New and Improved Roman History"(1798), C.Allen
  • "A Letter to the Committee for Raising the Naval Pillar"(1799), J.Flaxman
  • "An Essay on Sculpture"(1800), W.Hayley
  • "Lectures on Painting"(1801), H.Fuseli
  • "Designs to a Series of Ballads, Written by Wiliam Hayley (1802)
  • "The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare" (1802-3) and "Boydell's Graphic Ilustration of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare"(c1803)
  • "The Triumphs of Temper"(1803), W.Hayley
  • "The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cooper"(1803-4), W.Hayley
  • "Academic correspondence"(1804), P.Hoare
  • "The Iliad of Homer Engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman" (1805). (Part Contents)

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