Research Catalog

Title

The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil, with the first Eclogue and the imitation by Ambrose Philips. The introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

Author

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Publication

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937.

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Additional Authors

• Philips, Ambrose, 1675?-1749.
• Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982.
• Virgil
• John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection

Description

38 p., 1 l. 1 illus., plates.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837 > Illustrations
• Wood-engraving, British

Note

• "This edition, printed at the Curwen press, is limited to one thousand copies. This is number 261."
• Folder in pocket at end contains 16 prints "taken direct from electrotypes of the wood-blocks," for comparison with the "photographic process reproductions of the blocks in their original state printed at the end of the text."

Contents

The first Eclogue of Virgil.--Ambrose Philips's imitation of Eclogue I with Blake's illustrations.--Proofs of eight of Blake's blocks in their original state.--Sixteen of Blake's pencil designs for the wood-engravings.

Call Number

*KP (Nonesuch) (Blake, W. Illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil)

OCLC

• 252373
• 2914511

Author

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Title

The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil, with the first Eclogue and the imitation by Ambrose Philips. The introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

Imprint

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937.

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Added Author

Philips, Ambrose, 1675?-1749.

Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982.

Virgil. Bucolica. Latin. 1937.

John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Research Call Number

*KP (Nonesuch) (Blake, W. Illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil)