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VOLUME 30 NUMBER 4 SPRING 1997

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Articles

Blake in the Marketplace, 1996 by Robert N. Essick 100

William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 1996 by G. E. Bentley, Jr. With the Assistance ofKeiko Aoyama for Japanese Publications 121 CONTRIBUTORS SUBSCRIPTIONS are $50 for institutions, $25 for individuals. All subscriptions are by the volume (1 year, 4 issues) and begin with the summer issue. Subscription payments re• G. E. BENTLEY, JR., now retired from the University of ceived after the summer issue will be applied to the 4 is• Toronto, compiled this checklist at Durham University, put sues of the current volume. Foreign addresses (except it into final form in Beijing, and corrected the proofs at the Canada and Mexico) require an $8 per volume postal sur• Australian Defence Force Academy. He is now completing charge for surface, an $18 per volume surcharge for air a biography of William Blake. mail delivery. U.S. currency or international money or• der necessary. Make checks payable to Blake/An Illustrated ROBERT N. ESSICK, Professor of English, University of Cali• Quarterly. Address all subscription orders and related com• fornia, Riverside, has been writing sales reviews for this munications to Patricia Neill, Blake, Department of En• journal for 25 years. glish, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627.

BACK ISSUES are available at a reduced price. Address Patricia Neill for a list of issues and prices. EDITORS MANUSCRIPTS are welcome. Send two copies, typed and EDITORS: Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley documented according to forms suggested in The MLA BIBLIOGRAPHER: G. E. Bentley, Jr. Style Manual, to either of the editors: Morris Eaves, Dept. REVIEW EDITOR: Nelson Hilton of English, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627; ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR GREAT BRITAIN: David Worrall Morton D. Paley, Dept. of English, University of Califor• nia, Berkeley, CA 94720-1030. PRODUCTION OFFICE: Patricia Neill, Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER: 0160-628x. Blake/ MANAGING EDITOR: Patricia Neill An Illustrated Quarterly is indexed in the Modern Language TELEPHONE 716/275-3820 Association's International Bibliography, the Modern Hu• FAX 716/442-5769 manities Research Association's Annual Bibliography of PRODUCTION OFFICE EMAIL: [email protected] English Language and Literature, The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography (ed. David V. Erdman Morris Eaves, Department of English, University of Roch• et al.), American Humanities Index, Arts and Humanities ester, Rochester NY 14627 Citation Index, Current Contents and the Bibliog• Email: [email protected] raphy of the History of Art.

G. E. Bentley, Jr., 246 MacPherson Avenue, Toronto, COVER ILLUSTRATION: A tattoo based on Europe, pi. 1 ("The Ontario M4V 1A2. The University of Toronto declines to Ancient of Days") on the left leg of Charles A. Bufalino, forward mail. Riverside, California. Photo by Robert N. Essick, digitalized and enlarged by J. Sullivan, Sept. 1996. Nelson Hilton, Department of English, University of Geor• gia, Athens, GA 30602 Email: [email protected]

David Worrall, St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, Waldegrave Road, Twickenham TW1 4SX England Email: [email protected]

INFORMATION

MAKE /AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY is published under the spon• sorship of the Department of English, University of Roch• ester. ARTICLES lengthy Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illus• trations to The Pilgrim's Progress (Berkeley: U of Califor• nia P, 1993). But matters of aesthetic quality, particularly Blake in the Marketplace, 1996 in comparison to other works by the same artist, and ques• tions of attribution can be killers in the marketplace. Fur• ther, one of the time-honored rules of auctioneering is to avoid offering at auction anything that has been recently BY ROBERT N. ESSICK and aggressively flogged to most potential bidders. For once, my predictions proved prescient: the bidding failed to reach he year started propitiously for the Blake market with the "reserve"—that is, the price below which the auction• Tthe early January sale of two drawings, An Encounter eer will not sell the lot (a price that may be lower, but by in Heaven and a sheet of two recto/verso preliminary de• custom should not be higher, than the low estimate of signs for Commins's Elegy. These works, all previously re• £260,000). However, immediately after the auction two col• produced in this journal and thus not repeated here, were lectors—one English, one American—expressed consid• exchanged from one private owner to another through the erable interest in the Bunyan designs at a price somewhat New York dealer Salander-O'Reilly Galleries. The market less than the low estimate. A brief post-auction bidding then went flat. Very flat. The usual run of books with Blake's skirmish ensued. The anonymous English collector won. copy engravings turned up in dealers' catalogues at their There are, of course, a few other matters to report, mostly normal rate, but nothing appeared through the spring and under the category of Blake's paintings and drawings. In• summer to excite more ambitious collectors. The fall deed, I have nothing at all to list under the illuminated brought forth a richer harvest. On 14 November, Sotheby's books. I have as well several retrospective listings, includ• in London offered, in a single lot, Blake's 28 water colors ing a colored copy of Young's Night Thoughts and a major from the Frick Collection illustrating John Bunyan's water color by Blake. My apologies for being so tardy in Pilgrim's Progress (Butlin #829.1-19, 21-29)—see illus. 1-4. reporting the whereabouts of these works. The lot also included a late water color illustration of the The year of all sales and catalogues in the following lists first temptation from Milton's Paradise Regained (Butlin is 1996 unless indicated otherwise. The auction houses add #546)—see illus. 5. Thus, the entire Frick holdings of Blake their purchaser's surcharge to the hammer price in their were placed on the market as a collection with a published price lists. These net amounts are given here, following the estimate of £260,000-340,000. As far as I can determine, official price lists. The value added tax levied against the this was the largest deaccession of works by Blake from any buyer's surcharge in England is not included. Late 1996 sales institutional collection. My own pre-sale prediction (I keep will be covered in the 1997 review. I am grateful for help in trying to be a Blakean prophet, in spite of a poor track compiling this review to E. B. Bentley, G. E. Bentley, Jr., record) was decidedly negative: the lot would surely be David Bindman, Roger Cucksey (Newport Museum and bought-in (i.e., not sold). My reasons were several. Art Gallery), Detlef Dorrbecker (who supplied me with his Sotheby's had been trying, on behalf of the Frick, to sell own list of 1996 Blake sales, from which I have stolen shame• the water colors privately for about two years (promises of lessly), Morris Eaves, Sandra Ericson (Muhlenberg Col• confidentiality prevented me from reporting this in earlier lege), Jenijoy La Belle, Thomas V. Lange, Nick Lott, Kim- sales reviews). Every potential Blake collector was contacted. berly Orlijan, Giles Peppiatt of Bonhams, Lawrence All said no. The major reason for the negative response was, Salander, William L. Schneider, Grant F. Scott, Miriam I believe, the low quality of the work. Just compare Blake's Stewart (Harvard University Art Museums), and John Milton or Job designs with the Bunyan series from a Windle. Once again, Patricia Neill's editorial assistance and connoisseur's perspective; the results are depressing. I sus• John Sullivan's electronic imaging have been invaluable. pect that Blake was feeling the effects of his fatal illness when he was sketching the Bunyan illustrations c. 1824-27. A shaky hand, awkward figures, poorly-balanced composi• Abbreviations tions. In spite of these problems, one Blake collector with the means to make an impact on the market was enthusi• BBA Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London astic at first glance. He was then shown Butlin's entry on Bentley G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Books (Oxford: the series; passion turned to disappointment in a matter of Clarendon Press, 1977). Plate numbers and copy seconds. As Butlin points out, there are very good reasons designations for Blake's illuminated books follow to think that much of the coloring was supplied by Mrs. Bentley. Blake, perhaps after her husband's death. These sorts of is• Butlin Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of sues seem to have no effect on literary scholars writing William Blake, 2 vols. (New Haven: Yale UP, about the meaning of the designs—witness Gerda Norvig's 1981). cat. catalogue or sales list issued by a dealer

100 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 (usually followed by a number or letter designation) or auction house (followed by the day and month of sale) CE Christie's East, New York CL Christie's, London CNY Christie's, New York CSK Christie's, South Kensington illus. the item or part thereof is reproduced in the catalogue pl(s). plate(s) SL Sotheby's, London SNY Sotheby's, New York st(s). state(s) of an engraving, etching, or lithograph Swann Swann Galleries, auctioneers, New York # auction lot or catalogue item number

Illuminated Books

Nothing to report. I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone with information about Blake's illuminated books, or individual plates from them, that were offered for sale in 1996.

Drawings and Paintings

Illustrations to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. 28 water col• ors, each approx. 18 x 13.5 cm., datable toe. 1824-27. Butlin 1 Christian Directed by Mr. Worldly-Wiseman, an illustration #829.1-19,21-29. Plus The First Temptation, an illustration to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Water color by Blake and an• to Milton's Paradise Regained. Water color, 17.2 x 12.6 cm., other hand, probably Mrs. Blake, 17.8 x 13.3 cm., datable to c. datable to c. 1820-25. Butlin #546. SL, 14 Nov., #253, from 1824-27. Butlin #829.7. Inscribed below the image in pencil, the Frick Collection, New York, sold at the direction of the probably by Frederick Tatham, "7 [possibly over a deleted Board of Trustees, all 29 designs illus. color (not sold; esti• number] Mr Worldly Wiseman directs Xtian / to the house of mate £260,000-340,000). Acquired by an English private Legality, in the village of Morality." Photo courtesy of Sotheby's collector shortly after the auction. For comments and 4 London. color illus., see Henry Wemyss, "Blake Watercolours from The Frick Collection," Sotheby's Preview (Nov. 1996): 18- Martin Butlin, "Two Newly Identified Sketches for Tho• 19. See illus. 1-5. mas Commins's An Elegy and Further Rediscovered Draw• ings of the 1780s," Blake 26 (1992): 21-26. A Crowned Woman amid Clouds with a Demon Starting Away. Pen and wash, 13.2 x 11.4 cm., dated by Butlin, #92, An Encounter in Heaven. Pen and gray wash over pencil, to c. 1785-90. Acquired March 1993 by the Agnes Mongan sheet approx. 30.5 x 40.5 cm., datable to c. 1780-85. Jan. Center for Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Fogg Art private offer, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (acquired by R. Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Essick). For illus. and discussion, see the article listed above the bequest of Aimee and Rosamond Lamb, accession no. under Alternative Designs for Commins's Elegy. 1993.28. Christopher Heppner, Reading Blake's Designs (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995) 92-98, argues that the Head of a Man, attributed to Blake. Pencil, 5x4 cm. Dis• subject of the design is "The New Jerusalem Descending." covered and acquired by David Bindman from Gallery Downstairs, London, Dec. 1995. See illus. 6. Alternative Designs for Commins's Elegy. Recto pen, gray and light yellow-brown washes over pencil; verso pen and Moses Striking the Rock. Water color, 36.5 x 30.5 cm., signed gray wash over pencil, sheet approx. 34 x 26.5 cm., datable with Blake's monogram and dated 1805. Butlin #445. On to c. 1785-86. Jan. private offer, Salander-O'Reilly Galler• long-term loan from the Lutheran Church in America to ies (acquired by R. Essick). For illus. and discussion, see the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 101 Newton. Color print of 1795, 44.2 x 57.8 cm. Butlin #307. folding case ($50,000); pi. 15 only, 1874 printing on laid On long-term loan from the Lutheran Church in America India ($1000). SL, 23 May, #264, complete set of published to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Proof" impressions on laid India, slight spotting, loose in paper wrapper inscribed "Proofs from the possession of St. Paul Before Felix and Drusilla: "Felix Trembles!' Water George Richmond RA very rare," pi. 15 illus. (£35,600 on color, 37.5 x 35.9 cm., c. 1800-03. Butlin #508. Acquired by an estimate of £15,000-20,000). SNY, 3 May, #10, pi. 10 only, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Aug. 1995. See 1826 printing on "drawing paper" after removal of "Proof" illus. 7. inscription, some browning in margins, stitching holes in left margin ($920). Heritage Book Shop, June cat. for the Manuscripts London Book Fair, #21, complete set of the 1826 printing on "drawing paper" after removal of "Proof" inscriptions, Receipt signed by Blake, 5 July 1805, to Thomas Butts for some leaves watermarked "J Whatman 1825," others "J £5.7s., pasted to the inside front cover of A. E. Newton's Whatman Turkey Mill 1825," leaves trimmed, late 19th- copy of Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of William Blake century morocco, half morocco case ($45,000). (New York: Grolier Club, 1921), from the Joseph Holland Buddenbrooks, June London Book Fair, complete set of collection. Sold June by the book dealer John Windle to published "Proof" impressions on laid India, loose in mo• the autograph dealer Kenneth Rendell. According to rocco folder ($49,000). John Windle, Aug. cat. for the San Windle, Rendell intends to remove the receipt from the vol• Francisco Book Fair, #21, complete set of published " Proof" ume, offer it for sale, and retain Keynes's bibliography as a impressions on laid India, backing sheets trimmed to 32 x reference volume. 25.4 cm., light marginal foxing, early brown cloth rebacked ($38,750). CNY, 6 Nov., #252, pi. 2 only after removal of Separate Plates and Plates in Series "Proof" inscription, wove paper, illus. ($1840). CL, 27 Nov., #452, complete set of published "Proof" impressions on "Carfax Conduit, Oxford," possibly engraved by Blake. SL, laid India, backing sheets uncut at 42.3 x 33.3 cm., inter• 5 Dec, #21, on paper with an Auvergne watermark, some leaved, "original buff boards, letterpress paper label on foxing, illus. (not sold; estimate £800-1200). For the attri• upper cover," binding recased, modern cloth box, from the bution of this pi. to Blake, see Robert N. Essick, "A 'New' collection of George Goyder, pi. 13 illus. (£26,450). Bromer William Blake Engraving?" Print Quarterly 2 (1985): 42- Booksellers, Dec. cat., #15, complete set, 1826 printing on 47. Whatman paper after removal of "Proof" inscription, pis. tipped to stubs and interleaved, marginal tears in pis. 13 "Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims." Brick Row Book Shop, and 15, edges rubricated, 19th-century calf worn ($36,000). Jan. private offer, 5th St., printed in dark sepia on laid In• Mealy's auction, Dublin, 4 Dec, #301, complete set, 1874 dia, very probably a Colnaghi impression, good condition printing on laid India, loose in portfolio, tissue guards, pi. (priced at $9500 in 1995; sold Jan. 1996 to a private collec• 5 illus. (IR£5000). Sims Reed, Dec cat., #1278, complete tor for $6000). set of published "Proof" impressions on laid India, "mini• mal foxing," loose in morocco box (£28,500). Dante engravings. CL, 27 Nov., #453, complete set on In• dia paper, backing sheets 38.8 x 47.8 cm., printing uncer• tain but probably 1892, from the collection of George Letterpress Books with Engravings by and after Blake, In• Goyder, pi. 4 illus. (bought-in at £9,500 on an estimate of cluding Prints Extracted from Such Books £20,000-30,000). Heritage Book Shop, Dec. cat. 202, #30, complete set on India paper, backing sheets 40 x 54 cm., Allen, New and Improved History of England, 1798. Wilsey printing uncertain but probably 1892, from the collection Rare Books, Oct. private offer, with the folding chart (not of Philip Hofer, loose in a morocco folding case, pi. 4 illus. by Blake) at the end, some foxing in text, contemporary ($45,000). calf worn (price on application).

"George Cumberland's Card." John Windle, March private Ariosto, Orlando Furioso. BBA, 14 Dec 1995, #74,1783 ed., offer, printed in black on laid paper, 9.9 x 15.8 cm., show• 5 vols., some foxing, later calf worn (not sold; estimate £150- ing part of a watermark (PPS), good condition ($3500). 200). Adam Mills, Sept. cat. 38, #15, 1799 ed., 5 vols., con• The 1st impression I have seen with this watermark. temporary calf (£200). CNY, 13 Nov., 1799 ed., 5 vols., "some light browning," contemporary calf by William Job engravings. Estates of Mind, Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, Mackenzie, some wear ($322). complete set of published "Proof" impressions on laid In• dia, backing sheets untrimmed, clean set, loose in morocco Blair, The Grave. Bauman Rare Books, Jan. cat. "Paradise," #34, 1808 "folio" (but probably the quarto), later VA calf

102 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 over contemporary marbled boards ($2200). BBA, 25 Jan., #184,1808 quarto issue, minor foxing, contemporary quar• ter morocco very worn, modern slipcase (Robert Clark, £437); same copy, Robert Clark, May cat. 43, #172 (£750). Argosy Book Store, Nov. cat. 816, #57, 1813 quarto issue, half morocco worn ($1500); #64, 1926 reprinting of the plates, Twelve Designs for "The Grave," by Robert Blair, Phoe• nix Press, loose in original folder ($150). Mealy's auction, Dublin, 4 Dec, #263, "1813" [1870] ed., original cloth, spine torn (estimate IR£300-450). Swann, 19 Dec, #24, 1808 quarto, uncut in "comtemporary" (but actually mod• ern) boards with later spine label, recased, joints cracked, new endpapers ($2800 on an estimate of $1000-2000. A sur• prisingly high price for a sophisticated copy).

Bryant, New System ... of Ancient Mythology. Adam Mills, April cat. 36, #30, 1st ed., 1774-76, 3 vols., contemporary calf rebacked (£575); same copy, Dec. cat. 39, #162 (£455). SL, 24 Oct., #848, 2nd ed., 1775-76, 3 vols., some spotting, contemporary half morocco worn, joints weak (not sold; estimate £200-250).

Catullus, Poems, 1795. Adam Mills, Sept. cat. 38, #14,2 vols, in 1, some light spotting, contemporary marbled boards, modern calf spine (£450).

Cumberland, Outlines from theAntients, 1829. Adam Mills, Sept. cat. 38, #20, large-paper copy with the pis. on laid India (only the 2nd copy of this issue I've encountered), 2 Christian Beaten down byApollyon,an illustration to Bunyans some spotting, bookplate of John, Duke of Bedford, con• Pilgrim's Progress. Water color by Blake and another hand, temporary calf worn (£1750). probably Mrs. Blake, 19.2 x 12.9 cm., datable to c. 1824-27. Butlin #829.21. Inscribed below the image in pencil, probably Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline, 1796. SL, 18 Dec. 1995, by Frederick Tatham, "20 Christian beaten down by Appollyon #536, inscribed "from the author," uncut and unopened in [sic]." Photo courtesy of Sotheby's London. original boards restored, perhaps the copy on offer for the last few years by Phillip Pirages, pi. 6 illus. (not sold; esti• Euler, Elements of Algebra, 1797. CNY, 12 Nov., #189,2 vols., mate £1000-1500); same copy?, Phillip Pirages, Sept. cat. a mixed set in 2 different calf bindings ($207). 37, #238, pi. 2 illus. ($2000). Flaxman, Hesiod designs, 1817. Heritage Book Shop, March Darwin, Botanic Garden, 1791. N. W. Lott, March private private offer, foxed, a few marginal tears, original boards offer, a proof of pi. 6 ("Tornado") only, lacking finishing newly rebacked with calf, front cover label ($450). BBA, 15 work in the image but with all letters, from the collection Aug., #232, 1 pi. repaired, foxed, original boards rebacked of Raymond Lister (acquired by R. Essick). Grant and Shaw, with front cover label (R. Franklin, £368). Adam Mills, Sept. April cat. 31, #47,1st ed. of Part 1,2nd ed. of Part 2 (£695). cat. 38, #19, some heavy spotting on a few pis., others lightly Poetry Bookshop, May cat. 7, #6, 1st. eds. of both Parts, 2 spotted, original boards with cover label (£200). of the Portland Vase pis. cropped (£175). Adam Mills, Sept. cat. 38, #13, 1st ed. of Part 1, 2nd ed. of Part 2, some spot• Flaxman, Iliad designs, 1805. Swann, 9 May, #344, scattered ting and offsetting of pis., imprint on pi. 2 partly trimmed soiling, marginal tears, disbound, with Flaxman, Acts of off, contemporary calf rebacked (£450). Mercy, 1831, half morocco very worn ($230). Adam Mills, Sept. cat. 38, #17, with Flaxman's Odyssey designs, 1805, Darwin, Poetical Works, 1806. William Hale, Feb. Los An• bound together in later half morocco, some light spotting geles Book Fair, 3 vols., marbled boards rebacked in mod• (£400). ern calf ($800). Fuseli, Lectures on Painting, 1801. SL, 23 April, #236, bound with Opie, Lectures on Painting, 1809, with Knowles, Life

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 103 and Writings of Fuseli, 1831, 3 vols., all 4 vols, in contem• porary half calf worn (£632).

Gay, Fables, 1793. Hartfield Books, May cat. 50, #L-55, 2 vols., "thick-paper edition"(?), three-quarter morocco ($1295). Andrew Cumming, June London Book Fair, 2 vols, in 1, contemporary calf rebacked (£480). Petersfield Bookshop, July private offer, 2 vols, in 1, quarter calf (£250). John Windle, Aug. cat. for the San Francisco Book Fair, #25, 2 vols., top edge gilt, others uncut, fine impressions, later morocco ($1750). Hermitage Bookshop, Oct. cat., #105, 67 (of 68) pis., but including all 12 by Blake, 2 vols., some light foxing, modern quarter morocco ($750). BBA, 5 Dec, #3, apparently the 1st ed., "large paper copy," 2 vols, in 1, some offsetting and foxing, contemporary half mo• rocco rubbed (£300).

Hartley, Observations on Man, quarto issue, 1791. BBA, 11 Jan., #91, some browning, contemporary calf worn, covers detached (Thoemmes, £276).

Hayley, Ballads, 1805. BBA, 7 Nov., #80, sts. of pis. not re• corded, contemporary calf little rubbed (Jarndyce, £805 on an estimate of £300-400). Mealy's auction, Dublin, 4 Dec, #797, 1st sts. of pis., uncut in later boards, title page illus. (IR£450 to J. Windle).

Hayley, Life and Posthumous Writings ofCowpcr, New York: T. and J. Swords, 1803. Robert Allen Books, March private 3 Christian and Hopeful in Doubting Castle, an illustration to offer, 2 vols, in 1, contemporary calf rebacked ($56). See Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Water color by Blake and another illus. 8. hand, probably Mrs. Blake, 17.8 x 12.1 cm., datable to c. 1824- 27. Butlin #829.25. Inscribed below the image in pencil, prob• Hayley, Life, and Posthumous Writings, ofCowper, 1803-04. ably by Frederick Tatham, "Christian and Hopeful in Doubt• William Reese, Feb. cat. 153, #84, 1st ed., 3 vols., pi. 4 in ing Castle." Photo courtesy of Sotheby's London. 2nd St., original boards uncut, most covers detached, vol. 3 lacking paper spine, other spines very worn ($750). BBA, 25 April, #320, 1st ed., 3 vols., browned, modern boards Hayley, Triumphs of Temper, 1803. E. M. Lawson, Jan. cat. (R. Franklin, £345 on an estimate of £50-75). Robin 276, #60, large-paper copy, slight foxing, half sheep over Waterfield, April cat. 160, 2nd ed., vols. 1-2 only, bindings marbled boards (£600). Robert Clark, May cat. 43, #171, damaged (£165). John Windle, Aug. cat. for the San Fran• apparently small-paper copy, some foxing, contemporary cisco Book Fair, #26, 1st ed., 3 vols., pi. 4 in the rare 1st st., calf rebacked, worn (£285). Alex Fotheringham, Aug. cat. old calf worn, vol. 1 crudely rebacked ($675). Ravenstree, 27, #69, "wide margins" (i.e., a large-paper copy?), origi• Oct. cat. 180, #144, apparently 1st ed., 4 vols, in 3, includ• nal boards uncut, worn (£250). Adam Mills, Sept. cat. 38, ing the supplement of 1806, minor foxing and browning, #16, large-paper copy, contemporary calf rebacked (£600). contemporary calf rebacked ($775). Sims Reed, Dec. cat, Simon Finch, Nov. cat. 28, #192, small-paper copy, con• #1277, apparently 1st ed., 3 vols., contemporary half calf temporary calf worn, a few leaves creased (£380). E. M. (£450). Lawson, Dec. cat. 281, #49, large-paper copy, uncut in origi• nal boards worn, inscribed "From the Author" on the half- Hayley, Life of Romney, 1809. Heritage Book Shop, Feb. title, another presentation inscription perhaps by Maria private offer, lull calf by R. De Coverly ($1080). William Denman, Flaxman's sister-in-law (£650). Swann, 19 Dec, Reese, Feb. cat. 153, #85, some marginal foxing, three-quar• #173, apparently a sm.ill paper copy, calf worn, ownership ter morocco worn ($400). John Windle, Aug. cat. for the signature on title (not sold; estimate $250-350). San Francisco Book Fair, #27, half calf repaired ($450). Adam Mills, Dec. cat. 39, #165, contemporary calf worn Hoare, Inquiry, L806. Adam Mills, Sept. cat. 38, #18, con• (£400). temporary marbled boards rebacked (£450).

104 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 Hogarth, Works. CSK, 8 Dec. 1995, #15, undated Baldwin #319, without "Whole" in the title (and thus Bentley's issue and Cradock ed., 152 pis. on 114 leaves, contemporary half A or the issue between A and B), 54 (of 58) pis., contempo• roan lightly worn (£956.25). The Print Room, Jan. cat. 16, rary calf worn, upper cover detached (Pollak, £92); #320, #95, Blake's pi. only, st. not recorded (but the price sug• with "Whole" in the title (and thus Bentley's issue B, C, D, gests late), trimmed to the platemark and slightly within it or E), 51 pis., contemporary calf worn (Pollak, £69). at the top (£180). Sims Reed, Jan. cat. of "Recent Acquisi• tions," 1822 ed., 105 pis. (£1400). N. W. Lott, Feb. private Lavater, Aphorisms. Wilsey Rare Books, Jan. cat. 32, #10, offer, Blake's pi. only, 4th st. on laid India (the only impres• 1788 ed., contemporary calf rebacked, worn ($700). Heri• sion of any st. I've seen on such paper), water stain lower tage Book Shop, March private offer, 1788 ed., contempo• right (acquired by R. Essick). SL, 23 April, #242, undated rary calf, fine impression of Blake's pi. ($650). SL, 23 April, Baldwin and Cradock ed., 117 pis., contemporary half #262, 1789 ed., contemporary half calf, with 3 Pickering morocco worn (£1955). CSK, 3 May, #207, undated Baldwin eds. of Blake's poems and Gilchrist's Life of Blake, 1880 and Cradock ed., 148 pis. on 108 leaves, some soiling, con• (£632). Claude Cox, Sept. cat. 116, #57, 1794 ed., contem• temporary half morocco worn (£862.50); #208, 1822 ed., porary half calf worn (£57). 153 pis. on 105 leaves, marginal soiling, contemporary half morocco worn (£1035). CE, 22 May, #272, undated Baldwin Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy. CSK, 9 Feb., #12, 1789-98 and Cradock issue, 112 pis., contemporary half morocco ed., 3 vols, in 5, severe marginal staining and worming, worn, front cover detached ($920). CL, 31 May, #92, 1st modern hessian, uncut (£247.50); #144,1810 ed., 3 vols, in undated Baldwin and Cradock issue printed by Woodfall, 5, marginal dampstaining in vol. 2, contemporary calf 115 pis., some leaves spotted or with minor tears, contem• rebacked (£427.50). Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop, Aug. porary half morocco (£1265). BBA, 6 June, undated cat. 21, #324, 1789-98 ed., 3 vols, in 5, internally clean, full Baldwin and Cradock issue, 113 leaves of pis., contempo• calf ($3000). F. Thomas Heller, advertisement in the cat. rary half morocco very worn, upper cover detached (not for the Sept. San Francisco Book Fair, p. 43, 1792 [i.e., sold). CSK, 20 Sept., #121, undated Baldwin and Cradock 1818?] ed., 3 vols, in 5, contemporary calf worn at corners, issue, 155 pis. on 115 leaves, some tears and spotting, half hinges weak ($3300; sold at the Fair for $1500 to J. Windle morocco worn (£805). Swann, 5 Dec, #422, 1790 ed., 86 for R. Essick). Phillip Pirages, Sept. cat. 37, #324, 1789-98 (of 103) pis. on 63 leaves, no mention of Blake's pi., some ed., 3 vols, in 5, contemporary russia, with Physiognomical pis. soiled, half sheep badly worn ($1200); #423 1822 ed., Sketches by Lavater, Engraved from the Original Drawings 105 (of 116) pis., no mention of Blake's pi., many pis. soiled by John Luffman ([1802]), similarly bound, rebacked, and or dampstained, one torn, a real wreck, half morocco very reported by Pirages to be "extraordinarily rare" ($4200). worn (not sold; estimate $600-900). CNY, 9 Oct., #105, a mixed set, vols. 1-2 1792, vol. 3 1810, 3 vols, in 5, contemporary morocco worn ($1380). CNY, Hogarth and Blake, The Beggar's Opera, 1965 portfolio. 13 Nov., #340, 1792 [i.e., 1818?] ed., 3 vols, in 5, some fox• Adam Mills, April cat. 36, #18, extra-illustrated with a 19th- ing and browning on pis., 19th-century russia rebacked century impression of Blake's pi. hand colored, original ($460). cloth box (£800); same copy, Dec. cat. 39, #170 (£650). Malkin, Father's Memoirs, 1806. Simon Finch, Jan. handlist Hunter, Historical Journal, 1793. E. M. Lawson, Jan. cat. for the Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, #4, presentation in• 276, #43, quarto issue, probably a large paper copy, trimmed scription from the author to "Dr Pett," with 8 lines of verse except for 1 accidentally folded leaf, with the imprint on also in Malkin's hand, further inscribed "W. M. Rossetti / the engraved title present, late 19th-century half calf from Tho. Dixon / 1873," slight foxing and browning, 19th- (£2200). Traylen, June London Book Fair, quarto issue, century morocco little rubbed ($1500); same copy, April contemporary calf rebacked, Blake's pi. foxed (£3300). cat. 14, #8 (£950); same copy and price, June London Book Christie's Melbourne, 28 Nov., #518, octavo issue, Blake's Fair; same copy and price, Sept. cat. 27, #15; same copy pi. folded, some repairs, modern half morocco uncut, buck• and price, Nov. cat. 28, #193. BBA, 5 Dec, #8, some spot• ram box (no price record; estimate Australian $400-600); ting, contemporary calf (£350). Adam Mills, Dec cat. 39, #600, quarto issue, date cropped from title page, some stain• -163, uncut, pis. slightly spotted, later boards, "remnant of ing, modern calf (no price record; estimate Australian original printed paper label retained" (£500). $5000-7000). Novelist's Magazine, vol. 9, 1782. Adam Mills, Sept. cat. 38, Josephus, Works. W. & V. Dailey, March private offer, #12, David Simple and Sir Launcelot Greaves only, 2 pis. by Bentley's issue C but with "And sold by all other Booksell• Blake, contemporary half calf (£125). ers in Great Britain" as the final line on the title page, 2nd sts. of the pis., contemporary calf ($650). BBA, 20 June, Ritson, Select Collection of English Songs, 1783. Nicholas Pot-

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 105 ter, Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, 3 vols., later quarter calf covered Colored Copy of Young's Night Thoughts," Blake ($650). 15 (1981-82): 134-36; Grant F. Scott, "A Clash of Perspec• tives," Muhlenberg: The Magazine of Muhlenberg College 5 Shakespeare, The Plays, 1805. Robert Clark, Aug. cat. 44, (Fall 1993): 10-16 (with 11 color illus.). #252,9 vol. issue, scattered foxing, contemporary calf worn, 4 covers detached, a "reasonable working set" (£140). Young, Night Thoughts, 1797, uncolored copies. Estates of Mind, Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, with the Explanation Stedman, Narrative. Beeleigh Abbey Books, Feb. Los An• leaf, 2nd st. of the title page to Night the Second, fore-edges geles Book Fair, 1813 ed., 2 vols., pis. hand colored, mod• and some leaves at the tail untrimmed, early quarto mo• ern half morocco ($5,250). Adam Mills, April cat. 36, #136, rocco ($7500). Heritage Book Shop, March private offer, 1806 ed., 2 vols., "original marbled boards" rebacked with with the Explanation leaf, 2nd st. of the title page to Night calf (£900); same copy, Dec. cat. 39, #164 (£700). Swann, the Second, top edge gilt, others uncut, quarter calf 19 Sept., #368, 1813 ed., 2 vols., lacking 1 unidentified pi. ($10,000). SL, 23 March, #260, lacking the Explanation leaf, in vol. 2, scattered dampstaining throughout, modern some spotting, a few short tears, edges browned, uncut in morocco ($1955 on an estimate of $600-900). morocco-backed boards worn, fly-title to "Night the Third" illus. (£2990); same copy(?), Sims Reed, June London Book Stuart and Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, 1762-1830. Fair, the title page to Night the Second in the rare 1st St., Robert Frew, Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, 5 vols., with the with the imprints (as recorded in Bentley 638) lacking only rare pi. 29 (not by Blake) in vol. 2, early calf ($19,200). SL, on pis. 12 and 16 (pp. 19, 26), uncut in morocco-backed 27 June, #163, 5 vols., without pi. 29 in vol. 2 (which, ac• boards (£6500). CL, 27 Nov., #454, with the Explanation cording to this cat.,"did not appear"), occasional slight fox• leaf, trimmed to 41.6 x 32 cm., very light soiling, near-con• ing, modern half calf, 1 pi. (not by Blake) illus. (£21,850— temporary morocco, from the collections of Greville probably an auction record for a copy lacking the sort of MacDonald and George Goyder, st. of title page to Night distinguished contemporary binding that can add greatly the Second not recorded, title page to Night the First illus. to the market value). SL, 26 Nov., #266, 5 vols., inserted (£7130 to the dealer Andrew Cumming for stock). Mealy's portrait of Revett in vol. 1, lacking the folding map of Greece auction, Dublin, 4 Dec, #635, with the Explanation leaf, in vol. 3, some foxing, half morocco worn (£10,925). fancy morocco (IR£3000 to J. Windle on behalf of the Li• brary of Congress). Sims Reed, Dec. cat., #1291, with the Virgil, Pastorals, ed. Thornton, 1821. Adam Mills, April cat. Explanation leaf, uncut in "original cloth backed boards" 36, #16, 4 wood engravings (Bentley, pis. 11, 15-17) only, (£12,000). Linnell restrikes on thin wove paper mounted, "apparently from the [Theodore] Besterman Collection" (£280 each). Sims Reed, June cat., #4, 2 vols., original sheep, decorated Interesting Blakeana in blind around the edges of both covers, a copy previously offered by Donald Heald and John Windle at $17,500, cuts Satan before His Downfall, sold as "Circle of William Blake." 2-5 illus. (£12,500); same copy and price, Dec. cat., #1288. Water color, inscribed "W. Blake" lower center, 20 x 11 cm. Christopher Mendez, July private offer, 7th wood engrav• SL, 14 Nov., #221 (£345). Henry Wemyss very kindly sup• ing only, Linnell restrike very well printed (£500). Mealy's plied me with a Polaroid of this work. It certainly is not by auction, Dublin, Dec. 4, #386, catalogued under "Bewick Blake, nor can I ascribe it to anyone in his immediate circle. Plates [sic]" without reference to Blake, vol. 1 only, rebound The closest I can get, as a wild guess, is William Blake Rich• in morocco (IR£3000 to the dealer Andrew dimming for mond, the Victorian artist and son of Blake's friend and stock on an estimate of IR£150-250). follower George Richmond.

Wollstonecraft, Original Stories. See Gilchrist 1863 under Archaeologia, 1770-1953. BBA, 25 Jan., #93, vols. 1-22, 24- Interesting Blakeana, below. 95 plus 3 index vols., contemporary calf or original cloth for the later vols., a few covers detached (Simon Finch, Young, Night Thoughts, 1797, colored copies. Copy G in £862). The vols, issued in the 1770s and early 1780s have Bentley acquired July 1986 by the Frank Martin Gallery, plates signed by James Basire that Blake may have helped Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, from The with while an apprentice. Lutheran Church in America, Glen Foerd at Torresdale, Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg accession no. EL 85.70.1626. For T. Hollis, Memoirs, 1780. CSK, 8 Dec. 1995, *119, 2 vols., descriptions of this copy (lacking the Explanation leaf, sup• modern half morocco, with 3 other works in 5 vols. plied in reduced facsimile) and a reproduction of the title (£427.50). BBA, 4 July, #45, 2 vols., some spotting, uncut page to Night the Second, see Thomas V. Lange, "A Redis• and partly unopened in original boards rebacked with cloth

106 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 (Bickersteth, £368). While an apprentice, Blake may have participated in the production of the pis. signed by James Basire.

J. Egerton, Egerton's Theatrical Remembrancer, 1788. Quaritch, Sept. cat., #69, contemporary calf (£320). The first bibliography with a Blake entry: "'King Edward the Third.' Drama. 8vo. 1783. Printed in a Pamphlet, called, dri I 1 •^^' 'Poetical Sketches'" (£258).

G. Cumberland, Some Anecdotes of the Life of Julio Bonasoni.... Accompanied by a Catalogue of the Engravings, 1793. Quaritch, June art cat., #35, uncut in original boards (£350). Given his long friendship with Cumberland, it is 4 The Pilgrims Meet the Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains, highly probable that Blake knew this book and an illustration to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Water color by Cumberland's collection of early Italian prints. Blake and another hand, probably Mrs. Blake, 13 x 18.7 cm., datable to c. 1824-27. Butlin #829.27. Inscribed above the R. Brothers, portrait of, engraved by Sharp, 1795. Krown image in pencil, probably by Frederick Tatham, "27 The Shep• & Spellman, Sept. cat. 24, #337, right margin "slightly de• herds of the Delectable Mountains." Photo courtesy of fective," illus. ($400). For some comparisons between Blake Sotheby's London. and Brothers, see Morton D. Paley, "William Blake, The Prince of the Hebrews, and the Woman Clothed with the Sun," William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Catalogue of the ... Collection of Books ... of Mr. Thomas ed. Paley and Michael Phillips (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1973) Edwards, Bookseller of Halifax, auction, 10 May 1826. Alex 260-93. Fotheringham, March private offer, disbound, a duplicate deaccessioned from the Harvard College Library (£100; W Falconer, The Shipwreck, 1804. Ewen Kerr, May cat. 57, acquired by the Huntington Library). Lot 1076 is Blake's #201 (£85). Blake may have owned (or at least was lent) a Night Thoughts water colors. copy of this edition, for which Blake thanked Hayley in 1804 (see Bentley 687). J. T. Smith, Nollekens and His Times. Ken Spellman, Feb. cat. 33, #86, 1829 ed., 2 vols., contemporary calf (£140); A. Hay, History of Chichester, 1804. Marlborough Rare Nov. cat. 34, #116, 2 vols., 1828 ed., extra-illus. with c. 160 Books, Oct. cat. 167, #57, contemporary calf worn (£130). late 18th- and early 19th-century prints (£480). W 8c V. Blake apparently owned a copy of this book—see Bentley Dailey, March private offer, 1828 ed., 2 vols., quarter calf, 687-88. title pages foxed ($300). Veronica Watts, June London Book Fair, 1828 ed., 2 vols., half calf (£120). John Windle, Aug. J. Hassell, Memoirs ofMorland, 1804. Grant and Shaw, April cat. for the San Francisco Book Fair, #31, 1828 ed., 2 vols., cat. 31, #86 (£100). Rainsford Rare Books, Nov. cat. A58, calf rebacked ($475). Vol. 2 contains an important biogra• #334 (£195). Blake's two plates after Morland are men• phy of Blake. tioned. A. and J. Taylor, City Scenes, 1828. Adam Mills, April cat. The Examiner, 1810. Alex Fotheringham, Aug. cat. 27, #50, 36, #141, quarter morocco over marbled boards, "excellent 52 issues, lacking pp. 583-86, 831-32, half calf rebacked, copy" (£400); same copy, Dec. cat. 39, #166 (£325). Stuart worn (£275). The 1 July 1810 issue, pp. 412-14, contains R. Bennett, May cat. 24, #36, original roan-backed boards H. Cromek's obituary of Louis Schiavonetti. Cromek men• rebacked ($250). Contains "Holy Thursday" from Songs of tions the portrait of Blake and Blake's illustrations in the Innocence with an illus. unrelated to Blake's design. 1808 ed. of Blair's Grave, published by Cromek.

Moon, Boys, 8c Graves, Catalogue of Engravings, 1829. [J. Watkins and F. Shoberl], Biographical Dictionary of the Questor Rare Books, July cat. 18, #296, quarter leather over Living Authors of Great Britain, 1816. W 8c V. Dailey, March original boards, worn (£145). This sale cat. lists Blake's pi. private offer, old boards rebacked ($375). One of the first for the Boydell Shakespeare, "Prints, 4s. Proofs, 7s.6d." (p. bibliographies to include Blake. 159).

W. Hayley, Memoirs, 1823. Robin Waterfield, April cat. 160, #183, 2 vols. (£50). With several references to Blake.

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 107 R. Southey, The Doctor, 1834-47. Marlborough Rare Books, various cuttings including 6 pages from Fairholt's Tombs March cat. 165, 1st ed., 7 vols. (£850). Simon Finch, Nov. Of English Artists: No 7 William Blake," early 20th-cen• cat. 28, #296,1st ed., 7 vols., contemporary half calf slightly tury morocco, bookplate of Theodore Besterman (£1250). rubbed (£750). Contains several references to Blake—as The vols, were sold shortly after publication of the cat. Just well as the first publication of "The Three Bears." before the sale, Mills supplied Detlef Dorrbecker with a complete list of the extra-illustrations; in turn, Detlef kindly A. Cunningham, The Cabinet Gallery of Pictures, 1836. Ber• sent me a copy. The engravings by Blake added to the book nard Shapero, Jan. cat., #37, 2 vols., contemporary half are as follows: Allen, History of England, pi. 1; Ariosto, Or• morocco worn (£125). Contains an account of Blake and lando Furioso, pi. 1; Darwin, Botanic Garden, pi. 1; Fuseli, the angel Gabriel, first printed in the 1833-34 ed. Lectures on Painting, pi. 1; Hayley, Life of Cowper, pi. 4; Hayley, Life of Romney, pi. 1; Hayley, Triumphs of Temper, T. Sivright, Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Collec• pis. 2-5; Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, pi. 4; Salzmann, tions of Books, Pictures, etc., to be sold at auction by C. B. Elements of Morality, pis. in vol. 2 numbered 20 and 22; Tait, Edinburgh, Feb. 1 and 16 following days, 1836. Stedman, Narrative, pis. 6, 15, 16; Virgil, Pastorals, pis. 26- Quaritch, June art cat., #165, contemporary half calf worn 27; Whitaker, Seraph, pi. 1; Wollstonecraft, Original Sto• (£350). Some of Blake's drawings for Robert Blair's The ries, pis. 1 and 2; and an "engraving of a nude figure in Grave were included as lot 1835 in this sale—see G. E. classical drapes: by Blake for Young" (perhaps a clipping Bentley, Jr., "Thomas Sivright and the Lost Designs for from the Night Thoughts engravings). Blake's Grave" Blake 19 (1985-86): 103-06. The North American Review205 (Oct. 1864).The 19th Cen• S. Maunder, The Biographical Treasury, 1838. Holleyman tury Shop, Feb. cat. "The Romantic Movement," unnum• 8c Treacher, Nov. private offer, original(?) roan, worn (£20). bered 2nd item, original wrappers ($50). The unsigned re• Contains a brief entry on Blake, p. 96. view of Gilchrist's Life of Blake (1863), pp. 465-82, is at• tributed to Horace Elisha Scudder in Suzanne R. Hoover, J. Jackson [and A. Chatto], Treatise on Wood Engraving, "The Public Reception of Gilchrist's Life of Blake" Blake 1839. The Bookpress, March cat. 94, #163, contemporary Newsletter 8 (1974): 28. half morocco ($250). Pp. 715-17 include one of the earliest attempts to describe Blake's method of relief etching. Swinburne, William Blake, 1868, with the rare 2nd (1st trade) issue of the title page with "Zamiel. From the Book Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Pickering ed., 1839 of Job" printed beneath the vignette. Richard Budd Books, (the 1st letterpress ed.). BBA, 25 Jan., #193, issue (the 2nd?) July cat. 25, #222, rebound in morocco rebacked (£250). without "The Little Vagabond," some spotting and tears, original cloth worn, modern slipcase (R. Franklin, £368). Muir facsimiles of Blake's illuminated books. William Reese, Quaritch, April cat. for the New York Book Fair, #13, issue Feb. cat. 153, #87, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experi• with "The Little Vagabond," inscribed by the editor, J. J. G. ence, 1927, 2 vols., both numbered 12 by Muir, original Wilkinson, on the front endpaper," 13 Store Street, Bedford wrappers rebacked ($1500); same set?, Black Sun Books, Square, July 16. 1839" (the week after publication), origi• March cat. 101, #25, Muir's copy numbers not recorded nal cloth rebacked ($3500; probably a record asking price). ($2500); same set, Aug. cat. 110, #50 ($2000). Bromer Book• Mealy's auction, Dublin, 4 Dec, #331, issue without "The sellers, spring cat. 87, #36, America, 1887, colored copy, Little Vagabond," presentation inscription by the publisher Muir's copy number not recorded, original wrappers to the Irish poet James Sheridan Knowles, signed by ($1250); #37, Europe, colored copy, Muir's copy number Knowles on the title page, original cloth, title page illus. not recorded, original wrappers ($1250). John Windle, Aug. (IR£300 to the dealer Alex Fotheringham for a private cus• cat. for the San Francisco Book Fair, #23, The Marriage of tomer). Heaven and Hell, Muir's copy number not recorded, in• scribed "For The Times" by Muir, blue cloth, original wrap• H. G. Bohn, Catalogue of Books, 1841. Jonathan Hill, Feb. pers bound in ($1200). JeffWeber,Nov.cat.43,#42,M;7fo», cat. 98, #60, half morocco rebacked ($400). This enormous Muir's copy number not recorded, suede binding, ama• sale cat. includes copies of Blake's Songs of Innocence and oj teurishly copying one of Blake's designs ($1500). Christie's Experience, Book ofThel, Milton a Poem, and Jerusalem. Cleveland(!), 21 Nov., #5,4 Muir facsimiles bound together in full vellum: The Book of Thcl (1884 ed.). Visions of the A. Gilchrist, Life of William Blake, 1863, extra-illustrated Daughters of Albion (1884 ed.), The Marriage of Heaven and copies only. Adam Mills, April cat. 36, #17, 2 vols., extra- Hell, and There is No Natural Religion, original wrappers illustrated with "c. 20 plates" designed and/or engraved by discarded, and thus Muir's copy numbers lost (J. Windle, Blake, "some 17 other relevant engraved portraits, etc; and $1500). Adam Mills, Dec. cat. 39, *169, Songs of Innocence

108 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 and Songs of Experience, both 1927, both inscribed "For Review. Wm Muir" on the original wrappers, slipcase (£950).

Illustrated Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Water Colour Drawings [in the] Museum and Art Gallery, County Borough of Newport, Mon., with Notes by R. Gregory Absalom (Newport: Museum and Art Gallery Committee, 1951). Fine Art Catalogues, Jan. private offer, original wrap• pers (£15.50). This cat. includes "Allegorical Figures" at• tributed to Blake, p. 15. Roger Cucksey, Keeper of Art at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery, informs me in cor• respondence that the Museum no longer ascribes the work to Blake. The xerox copy supplied by Mr. Cucksey con• firms this reassessment. This amateurish picture of an un- draped male and female clutching at each other, with flames to the left and a violin lower right, fails to strike my eye as a work by anyone in Blake's circle, although its vulgar exag• geration of the organs of generation does inspire a double- take.

L. [and E.] Baskin, Blake and the Youthful Ancients, 1956. G. R. Minkoff, May cat. 96-B, #22,1 of 50 copies, presenta• tion inscription from one of the Baskins, original quarter morocco over boards ($1950).

Edwin Wolf, collection of his correspondence and manu• 5 The First Temptation, an illustration to Milton's Paradise Re• scripts related to Blake. About 400 letters to Wolf (many gained. Water color, perhaps touched up by another hand, from Geoffrey Keynes), 170 carbon copies of Wolf's let• possibly Mrs. Blake, 17.2 x 12.6 cm., trimmed to the image. ters, and manuscripts of the 1939 Philadelphia Blake ex• Butlin #546, where the work is dated to c. 1820-25. Photo cour• hibit cat. and Wolf's unpublished book, William Blake as tesy of Sotheby's London. an Artist. Jonathan Hill, Feb. cat. 98, #54 ($7500). The archive has been available from Hill for several years. the frontispiece to America. Stampa Barbara (by its own A Letter from William Blake, Northampton, 1969, illus. by account the world's largest rubber stamp shop, located in Leonard Baskin. Swann, 15 Feb., #31, 1 of 25 copies on Ja• Santa Barbara, California), Jan. private offer ($12). pan vellum signed by Baskin and with an extra suite of the pis., full niger worn, with Blake, Auguries of Innocence, illus. A set of 6 rubber stamps of English authors, including by Baskin, 1968 (not sold; estimate $800-1200). Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge, "Shelly" [sic], Keats, and Blake, each approx. 3.3 x 2.2 cm. Stampa Barbara, Jan. pri• Europe, pi. 1 ("The Ancient of Days"). Modified version vate offer ($10 the set). The Blake stamp is loosely based on acquired Feb. 1993 by Charles A. Bufalino as a tattoo on the "visionary" portrait (self-portrait?) of Blake in my col• his lower left leg ($150). See illus. 9. lection, perhaps copied (given the thickness of the hair) from the reproduction of this portrait on the cover of Blake's A pillow, approx. 52 x 44 cm., brocade and printed, Victo• Poetry and Designs, ed. Mary Lynn Johnson and John E. rian in its golden-brown colors and richness of decoration, Grant (New York: Norton, 1979). showing on its face 2 tigers (probably based on a 17th- or 18th-century engraving) around which are written in 4 di• rections "Tyger Tyger burning bright in the forests of the Blake's Circle and Followers night." Feast (a fabrics and housewares shop in Pasadena, California), Jan. private offer ($188). Works are listed under artists' names in the following or• der: paintings and drawings sold in groups, single paint• A rubber stamp, 7.2 x 3.9 cm., based with considerable fi• ings and drawings, letters and manuscripts, separate plates, delity on the bound figure with giant wings pictured on books by (or with plates by or after) the artist.

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 109 BARRY, JAMES Massacre of the Innocents. Pen and ink, gray wash over pen• cil, 12.5 x 19 cm. SL, 3 April, #13 (not sold; estimate 500- Etchings from the Royal Society of Arts, 1808. SL, 21 March, 700). #1, 9 of 14 pis. only, some surface dirt and marginal tears, with a duplicate of "Crowning the Victors" (not sold; esti• Portrait of Flaxman, attributed to John Raphael Smith. Pas• mate £1200-1400). tel, 24.2 x 18.7 cm. CL, 9 July, #17, illus. color (not sold; estimate £7000-10,000). King Lear Weeping over the Body of Cordelia. Red chalk draw• ing by Francis Legat after the right side of Barry's painting Portrait Study of Mrs. Mathew. Pencil, 26.3 x 18.7 cm. CL, 9 for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. 28 x 20 cm. SL, 3 April, July, #20, illus. (not sold; estimate £3000-5000). #9, illus. (£1840). Probably executed by Legat as a prelimi• nary for his 1792 engraving of the entire painting. Studies of Matilda Lowry. 2 pencil drawings, 18.4 x 13.7 cm. and 18.1 x 13 cm., both dated 1803. CL, 9 July, #18, draw• "King Richard the Third, Act IV, Scene III," Legat after Barry ing showing the subject standing illus. (£1150). for the Boydell Shakespeare portfolio. The Print Room, Jan. cat. 16, #105 (£100). Study of the Head of Harriet Mathew. Pencil, 18.7 x 15.5 cm. CL, 9 July, #19, illus. (£1840).

BASIRE, JAMES (Blake's master) Study of St. Paul, after Diirer. Brown wash over pencil, 72 x 50.5 cm. SL, 3 April, #12, illus. (not sold; estimate £2000- "The Farmer's Return," after Hogarth, 1762. The Print 3000). Room, Dec. cat. 18, #57, trimmed within platemark (£65). Study of Two Women Grieving. Pen and gray ink, gray "View of the Cathedral of Christ Church, and Part of Cor• washes, 34 x 24 cm. An early work, rather soft and senti• pus Christi College," c. 1795. The Print Room, Dec. cat. mental; perhaps a preparatory study for a funerary monu• 18, #58, trimmed on platemark, library stamp affecting title ment. SL, 14 Nov., #79, illus. (£20,700 on an estimate of area (£100). £4000-6000. An auction record for a figure study by Flaxman).

CALVERT, EDWARD Aeschylus designs, 1795. Walford, March cat. 22, #35, printed on paper watermarked 1801 and 1804 (£250). Study of a Shepherd Seated Under a Tree, a Classical Temple Beyond. Oil, 7 x 18.5 cm. SL, 3 April, #8 (£1265). Compositions of the Acts of Mercy, 1831. Marlborough Rare Books, Jan. private offer, contemporary quarter morocco, cloth boards (£1200); same copy and price, June cat. 166, FLAXMAN, JOHN #96, 1 pi. illus. See also Flaxman, Iliad designs, in Letter• press Books with Engravings by and after Blake, above. A group of 7 drawings. Abbott and Holder, June cat. 305, sold individually as follows: #50, head studies, pen and ink, Dante designs, 1807. Heritage Book Shop, March private from the de Pass collection, 7.6 x 8.9 cm. (£90); #51, naked offer, some pis. foxed, quarter calf ($750). Rainsford, May men wrestling, pen and ink, 11.4 x 12.7 cm. (£65); #52, cat A57, #137 (£200). Robert Clark, Oct. cat. 45, #242, some inscribed "Chessmen designed by Flaxman," pen and ink, foxing, "original"(?) brown cloth rebacked, printed label 10.2 x 17.8 cm. (£65); #53, design for a tomb, pencil, 17.8 x (£150). 15.2 cm. (£110); #54, man expressing horror, 2 ink studies, another in pencil on verso, 17.8 x 15.2 cm. (£125); #55, Flaxman, Anatomical Studies, 1833. Marlborough Rare seated Greek girl, pen and ink, 17.8 x 15.2 cm. (£75); #56, Books, June cat. 166, #95, original boards rebacked, covers figure studies, pencil, pen and ink, 17.8 x 15.2 cm. (£175). "bubbled" (£480).

A folio of studies for sculpture intended for Buckingham Hesiod, Odyssey, Aeschylus, and Sujets Divers, engraved by Palace. 6 on 5 sheets, pen and gray ink, brown wash, "vari• Reveil, n.d. Heritage Book Shop, March private offer, 4 vols, ous sizes." SL, 3 April, #18 (not sold; estimate £500-700). in 1, the Sujets Divers lacking the folding pi. of Flaxman's shield of Achilles, quarter calf ($300). Head Studies. Pen and gray ink, 18 x 13.5 cm. SL, 3 April, #14, illus. (not sold; estimate £500-700). Iliad designs. Antiquariat Franz Deuticke, Vienna, Sept. cat.

110 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 254, #2105, with the Odyssey designs, both engraved by Riepenhausen, reissue of c. 1855 of the 1817 pis., lacking 1 pi. (1500 Austrian shillings); #2106, 1793 ed. engraved by Piroli, bound with the Odyssey, 1793 ed. engraved by Piroli, the Odyssey lacking 1 pi. (2800 Austrian shillings).

Keepsake, 1831. W. & V. Dailey, March private offer, half calf ($150).

Milton, Latin and Italian Poems, trans. Cowper, ed. Hayley, 1808. Stuart Bennett, May cat. 24, #125, full morocco by George Mullen of Dublin, rebacked ($450); Ravenstree, Oct. cat. 180, #25, some browning and foxing, uncut in quarter morocco worn ($750).

Odyssey designs, 1805. Robert Clark, Oct. cat. 45, #241, some foxing, original boards with printed label, worn, spine defective (£85).

FUSELI, HENRY

An Idealized Portrait Study of Martha Hess, bust-length. Pen• cil. 11.4 x 8.3 cm. CL, 9 July, #16, illus. (not sold; estimate £5000-7000).

The Nursery of Shakespeare. Oil, 18.3 x 15.3 cm. Offered Germann auction, Zurich, 12 Nov., lot # and price not ob• 6 Head of a Man, attributed to Blake. Pencil, 5x4 cm. on tainable. For a color illus., see Burlington Magazine 138 sheet 8.5 x 6 cm. Collection of David Bindman, who first sug• (Oct. 1996): xiii. gested that this work may be by Blake. Bindman discovered this drawing in an album once in the possession of the family Portrait of the Artist's Wife. Oil sketch on paper, 22 x 18.5 of the engraver Wilson Lowry (1762-1824) containing many cm. oval. Advertised by Thomas Le Clair, Hamburg, drawings by the Lowry family and by John Varley. This con• Burlington Magazine 137 (Dec. 1995): vii, illus. color (not text suggests that the drawing may be connected with Abraham priced). The work was exhibited at W. Mark Brady & Co., Rees, The Cyclopaedia (1820), a publication for which Blake New York, 10-27 Jan. 1996, #10 in the cat. engraved 7 plates and Lowry a great many. The image in Rees closest to this drawing is to my eye the "Mask of the Hercules Portrait ofFuseli, by George Henry Harlow. Oil, 50.8 x 39.4 furens of Euripides from a Marble in the Palace Albani in cm., dated "May 1818" on the back by the Robert Balmanno, Rome" illustrated on plate 2 of "Ancient Musical Instruments who commissioned the painting. SL, 23 April, #235, illus. & Masks." There are a number of differences, including the (£6900 on an estimate of £2000-3000). Assyrian or Babylonian, rather than Grecian, style of the drawn head or mask. The plate is unsigned; but the precedent for Saul and the Witch of Endor (recto), A Female Figure, per• Blake having sketched an image for an unsigned plate in Rees haps Ophelia (verso). Pencil, pen and ink, brown wash, 41.6 has been established by Butlin #678, a sheet bearing pencil x 53 cm., signed "H Fuseli." CL, 9 July, #5, recto illus. (not studies of a sphinx and Jupiter engraved on "Basso Relievo" sold; estimate £2000-3000). plate 1. Bindman, in correspondence, has questioned this con• nection and suggests that the drawing may represent medi• Study of Sarah Siddons as Lady Constance in Shakespeare's eval armor. Blake engraved a plate for Rees titled "Armour "King John". Pencil, 18.5 x 23 cm. SL, 3 April, #20, illus. Plate IV & V," but nothing in it or any of the other armor (not sold; estimate £3000-4000). illustrations corresponds to the drawing. Nonetheless, both Bindman and I believe that this very small drawing is prob• A Witch at Work. Pencil, approx. 17x11 cm. John Windle, ably by Blake. May private offer (price on application). The witch in this sketch is very similar to the one upper left in Two Witches

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 111 at Work, a pen and ink drawing in the Kunsthaus, Zurich. For an illus. of the Kunsthaus drawing, see Paul Ganz, The Drawings of Henry Fuseli (New York: Chanticleer P, 1949) 42.

Zacharias Writing the Name of His Son John the Baptist on a Tablet in His Lap. Pencil, 41.5 x 28 cm., inscribed "Roma 70." SL, 3 April, #19, illus. (not sold; estimate £8000-12,000).

Autograph draft of Fuseli's report to the Council of the Royal Academy for 1821, 5 pp. on paper with an 1820 wa• termark. Roy Davids, July cat. of "Manuscripts, Literary Portraits, and Association Items," #51 (£750).

Bible, published Macklin, 1800. Sotheran's, June cat. 34, #10,6 vols., some foxing of pis. (£1498). SL, 11 July, #74, 7 vols, in 6, contemporary morocco rebacked (£1610).

Boydell, Collection of Prints ... Illustrating ... Shakspeare. Heritage Book Shop, March private offer, London 1803 ed., 2 vols, in 1, pis. very clean, original(?) calf richly gilt ($15,000); Philadelphia ed., n.d., 2 vols., with the pi. de• 7 St. Paul Before Felix and Drusilla: "Felix Trembles"'Water color, scriptions not in the London ed., contemporary half russia 37.5 x 35.9 cm., c. 1800-03. Butlin #508. Gift of William ($9,250); London ed. only, Dec. cat. 202, #323 ($15,000). Bowmore OBE through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation, Aug. 1995, and since then in the Art Gallery of British Classics (1803-10), with Drake, Essays (1805, 1809- South Australia, Adelaide. See Anon.,'William Bowmore: An• 10). Ursus Rare Books, Jan. private offer, 29 vols., fine con• other Major Gift," Art Gallery of South Australia Sews, Dec. temporary morocco ($7500). 1995 / Jan. 1996, unpaginated folder (illus. color). Bowmore acquired the work in 1975. For the subject, see Acts 24:24-27. Fuseli, Lectures on Painting, 1820. Quaritch, June art cat., Paul, having been arrested for "sedition" (Acts 24:5) and still #69, contemporary calf worn (£175). "bound" with chains, preaches about his "faith in Christ" be• fore Antonius Felix, the Roman procurator of Judaea, and his Gray, Poems, Du Roveray ed., 1800. John Windle, Feb. pri• wife Drusilla. The gestures Blake gives to the couple would vate offer, small-paper issue with the half-title, early mo• seem to have been prompted by "Felix trembled" (Acts 24:25). rocco worn (price on application). Claude Cox, July cat. Could Blake's own scrape with the law concerning seditious 115, #19, large-paper issue, some light soiling, contempo• expressions have led him to this subject? If so, then the water rary calf rebacked (£65). color would have to be dated to August 1803 or later. Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Homer, Iliad and Odyssey, trans. Cowper, 1791. Simon Finch, June London Book Fair, 2 vols., Fuseli's copy with 9 leaves of manuscript corrections by Fuseli bound at the end, sketch by Fuseli on the back of a letter by him to Tho• by Lazars of 5 of the 6 pis. after Fuseli first published in the mas Coutts inserted, presentation inscription from Fuseli 1802 ed., above. to Lady Guilford, later blue morocco (£4500); same copy, Sept. cat. 27, #43, bindings illus. (£6500). Milton, Paradise Lost, 1808. Ravenstree, Oct. cat. 180, #61, full morocco worn and shaken ($385). Contains the 6 pis. Milton, Paradise Lost, 1802. Ravenstree, Oct. cat. 180, #60, after Fuseli first published in the 1802 ed., above. 2 vols., apparently small paper, contemporary calf rebacked, worn ($950). For pre-publication proofs of the 6 pis. after A Series of Engraving? to Illustrate the Works of Shakspeare, Fuseli, see the extra-illus. copy of Milton, Poetical Works, by Heath, Hall, Rhodes, Fitter, etc., 1817. CSK, 20 Sept.,* 164, under Stothard, below. with 3 pis. after Fuseli, .it least 1 after Stothard, original boards worn (£127). Milton, Paradise Lost, 1807. Dirk Cable, Aug. private offer, 2 vols., contemporary calf worn ($60). With re-engravings Shakespeare, Dramatic Works, 1802. Golden Legends, Feb.

112 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 Los Angeles Book Fair, 9 vols., 97 pis. only, lacking Blake's Windsor Park. Oil, signed and dated 1863, 51x71 cm. SL, 6 pi. but with Fuseli's, all pis. hand colored, contemporary Nov., #119, illus. color (£4600). morocco rebacked ($15,000). The Wold of Kent. Oil, 64.5 x 91.5 cm., signed and dated Shakespeare, The Plays, Stockdale ed., 1807. Bauman Rare 1853. CL, 29 March, #170, illus. color (£14,950). Books, Jan. cat. "Paradise," #243, 6 vols., early three-quar• ter calf rebacked over marbled boards ($3500). MORTIMER, JOHN HAMILTON Shakespeare, The Plays and Poems, ed. Valpy, 1832. Robert Frew, March cat. 7, #261, 15 vols., 170 outline pis. based on Four Banditti Resting under a Tree. Pen and black ink, 26.5 the Boydell Shakespeare, half morocco (£650). x 20.5 cm. SL, 14 Nov., #69, illus. (not sold; estimate £800- 1200). Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, 1769. Richard Budd Books, June cat. 25, #182, the (pirated?) ed. with unsigned pis., 4 vols. Progress of Vice: Preparation for the Execution. Oil, 75 x 62 (£130, sold to D. W. Dorrbecker for £85 when the ed. was cm., signed with monogram and dated 1774. SL, 3 April, properly identified). #129, illus. color (£4140).

Young, Catalogue of Pictures by British Artists in the Posses• Studies of a Seated Woman and Standing Figures. Pencil, pen sion of Sir John Fleming Leicester, 1821. BBA, 15 Aug., #41, and brown ink on 3 sheets, 14 x 18.1 cm. and smaller. CL, pis. on laid India, minor spotting, contemporary calf 12 Nov., #19 (not sold; estimate £600-800). rebacked (Sims Reed, £92). "An Academy," Ravenet after Mortimer, 1771. The Print Young, Catalogue of the ... Collection of... Angerstein, 1823. Room, June cat. 17, #467, illus. (£400). BBA, 14 Dec. 1995, #319, half morocco worn (Hetherington, £57). "Banditti," Boyne after Mortimer. The Print Room, Jan. cat. 16, #112, illus. (£100). An anti-Whig caricature based on Mortimer's famous Banditti scene, with Fox dressed as LINNELL, JOHN a roman Centurion, Sheridan as a moneylender, and the murdered bodies of Ashburton and Shelburne under the Coastal Landscape with Fishermen at Low Tide. Oil, 29.5 x table. 45 cm., signed and dated 1815-75, with a sketch on the verso and inscribed "so much painted 1815 / & the rest added Shakespeare characters. Christopher Mendez, July private 1875 / & made one picture—John Linnell." SL, 3 April, #97, offer, 1st issue of 6 (Bardolph, Caliban, Edgar, The Poet, illus. color (£4370). Ophelia, Richard II) before borders, with Mortimer's ini• tials in ink, wide margins, some margins with corners cut Portrait of Thomas Cadby. Oil, 28 x 22 cm., signed and dated or stained (£2000). 1820. SL, 10 July, #60, illus. color (not sold; estimate £4000- 6000). PALMER, SAMUEL Portrait of the Rev. Robert Clarke Caswell. Oil, 26 x 20.5 cm., datable to 1841. SL, 9 May, #33 (£414). Crossing the Ford. Water color, 51.4 x 70.5 cm., signed and dated 1846. Leger Galleries, May cat. of British Paintings, Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Clare, a pair. Oils, each 43 x Water Colors, and Drawings, no. item no. (pp. 46-47), illus. 34.5 cm., the portrait of the man signed and dated 1834, color (£75,000). the portrait of the woman signed but not dated. SL, 13 Nov., #82, both illus. color (£3220). In Cusop Dingle, Near Hay-On-Wye, Wales. Brown washes over pencil with touches of body color on gray paper, dated The Sheep Shearer (recto), Studies of Sheep (verso). Pencil 24 June 1837, 27.5 x 38 cm. SL, 14 Nov., #110, illus. color and water color, 25.1 x 42.8 cm. CL, 9 July, #45, recto illus. (£32,200 on an estimate of £8000-12,000). (withdrawn). Landscape with Cottage Roof. Water color, 15.2 x 26.6 cm., View of Lymington and View ofBayswater. 2 drawings, pen• datable to c. 1845. Agnew's, 123rd annual exhibition of En• cil, each 11.1 x 16.8 cm., signed and dated 1815 (Lymington) glish water colors and drawings, March, #85, illus. (price and 1811 (Bayswater). CL, 9 July, #81 (£299). on application).

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 113 Near Underriver, Sevenoaks, Kent. Water color, 26.5 x 36.5 Hamerton, Etching and Etchers. BBA, 8 Feb., #30, 1880 ed., cm., datable to c. 1843. Agnew's, 123rd annual exhibition with Palmer's etching, "Herdsman's Cottage," 2nd St., oc• of English water colors and drawings, March, #84, illus. casional spotting, contemporary morocco (Hay Cinema, color (price on application). £391). Bernard Shapero, Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, 1880 ed., with Palmer's etching, "Herdsman's Cottage," 2nd St., Sabrina. Water color and body color, 53 x 75 cm. SL, 3 April, modern half calf ($650). F. A. Bernett, March cat. 300, #105, #168, illus. color (£47,700). See illus. 10. 1880 ed., with Palmer's etching, "Herdsman's Cottage," 2nd st. ($1250). SL, 23 April, #240,1868 ed., with Palmer's etch• Study of Boats on a Lake by Moonlight. Brown wash, 8x11 ing, "Early Ploughman," 4th St., original roan-backed cloth cm. An early, pre-Shoreham, wash drawing. SL, 14 Nov., (£529). Wilsey Rare Books, Oct. cat. 33, #71,1880 ed., with #130, illus. (£1265). Palmer's etching, "Herdsman's Cottage," 2nd St., full mo• rocco by Bedford ($1500). Letter to John Wright, 15 Feb. 1865, 4 pp. David Schulson Autographs, Dec. cat. 87, #92, with a passing reference to Keats, Works, ed. Forman, 1883. Bernard Shapero, Feb. Los "Blake's various works" as suitable for collecting ($2750). Angeles Book Fair, 5 vols., modern half calf ($1300). For the text of this letter, see The Letters of Samuel Palmer, ed. Raymond Lister (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1974) 2: 727- Milton, Shorter Poems, 1889. Robert Clark, April cat. 43, 28. #244, small-paper copy (£255). Clearwater Books, July cat. 62, #223, "folio" (i.e., large-paper copy?), rebound in half Letter to the etcher Thomas Oldham Barlow, 30 Sept. 1876. pigskin (£350); same copy and price, Oct. cat. 65, #160. Roy Davids, May cat., #106 ($1940). Palmer comments on Argosy Book Store, Nov. cat. 816, #412, large-paper copy, modern graphic techniques, including his dislike of original vellum rebacked with calf, covers soiled ($300). retroussage and his belief "that the charm of Etching is the glimmering through of the white paper, even in the shad• A. H. Palmer, Life and Letters of S. Palmer, 1892. John ows. . . ." According to the cat., "only about half" of this Windle, Jan. cat. 25, #75, small-paper issue, original cloth important letter is printed in The Letters of Samuel Palmer, ($750). ed. Raymond Lister (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1974) 2: 931-32 (reported by Lister as "not traced"). A. H. Palmer, S. Palmer: A Memoir, 1882. John Windle, Jan. cat. 25, #76, original quarter morocco, inscribed by A. H. "The Early Ploughman," etching. CL, 27 June, #229A, 4th Palmer to F. G. Stephens, with an inserted letter of 21 March st. (£287). SL, 25 Oct., #83, 8th St., pencil signature, minor 1883 from A. H. Palmer to Stephens about the printing of foxing in margins, verso stained, illus. (£517). CNY, 6 Nov., S. Palmer's Virgil etchings ($1250). #304, 4th st., with black ink additions and scratching out, inscribed "Touched," illus. ($4370). Virgil, English Version of the Eclogues, 1883. John Windle, Jan. cat. 25, #74, "large-paper" (but the binding indicates "The Rising Moon," etching. CL, 27 June, #228, 5th St., in• small), stamped as the publisher's file copy, unopened, scribed in pencil "Trial proof before plate was cut," from original cloth repaired ($1250). Wilsey Rare Books, Jan. the collection of Sir Geoffrey Keynes (£1265). CNY, 6 Nov., cat. 32, #74, large paper, 1 of 10 copies for presentation, #303, 2nd st., with additions in pencil, inscribed "re• letter from A. H. Palmer presenting the book to Martin touched," illus. ($4025). Hardie laid in, original vellum ($3000).

"The Weary Ploughman," etching. CL, 27 June, #229, 7th st., pencil signature (£1380). RICHMOND, JOHN

"The Willow," etching. Veronica Watts, June London Book A Damned Soul Hanging from a Gothic Building. Pen and Fair, final st., printing in the 1920s (£325). brown ink, colored washes, 7.5 x 6.5 cm. on the verso of a letter dated 1823. Garton & Co., July private offer ($7000). Adams, Sacred Allegories, 1856. John Windle, Jan. cat. 25, For illus., see Raymond Lister, George Richmond: A Critical #77, original cloth ($400). Biography (London: Robin Garton Ltd., 1981) 27. Previ• ously sold SL, 18 Nov. 1976, #178 (£370). Dickens, Pictures from Italy, 1846. The Fine Books Co., Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, original cloth ($275). Robert Frew, iigurcs in Classical Dress Gathered at the Edge of a Path. Sept. cat. 8, #242, original cloth (£175). Pencil and water color, 24.4 x 15.9 cm., signed and dated " Rome. 1838." CL, 9 July, #6, illus. (not sold; estimate £ 1500- 2000).

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8 The "Weatherhouse" and "Cowper's tame Hares," wood en Wollstonecraft's Original Stories from Real Life, 1791 (for Marie graving, 11 x 8.3 cm., by Alexander Anderson after Blake's et Caroline see G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Books Supplement [Ox design of the weatherhouse. Published in William Hayley, ford: Clarendon P, 1995] 26569). In both instances, the en The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper (New gravings by other hands were probably copied from the ear York: T. and J. Swords, 1803) 2: 245. Essick collection. "Ander lier plates both designed and executed by Blake, not from his son F[ecit]." is cut in white line in the edge of the thatch above original drawings. Thus, the genre of reengraving described the tree trunk on the left. Anderson (17751870) has been here should be distinguished from plates such as those in Rob considered by some authorities as the father of American wood ert Cromek's 1808 ed. of Blair's Grave, with engravings (not engraving. The text above the design, the last line below the reengravings) by Louis Schiavonetti based on Blake's origi design, and the 5 lines of verse in the panel on the steps of the nal drawings commissioned by Cromek. weatherhouse are printed in letterpress; all other letters are The New York ed. of Hayley's book also contains two en part of the wood engraving. In the 180304 London ed., with gravings by Peter Maverick (17801831) based on George 5 plates engraved by Blake, this design is signed "Blake d 8c sc" Romney's portrait of Cowper (1: frontispiece) and on D. lower left beneath the base of the weatherhouse. It seems Heins's portrait of Cowper's mother (1: 3). Like the weather probable that Blake not only delineated the preliminary sketch house, these plates were very probably copied after Blake's or wash drawing for the engraving, but also designed/invented larger engravings of the same images in the London ed. These the image of the weatherhouse (but not the medallion of portraits constitute yet another (and decidedly minor) genre: Cowper's rabbits). Thus, the wood engraving reproduced here reengravings based on plates originally executed by Blake after belongs in the category of prints designed by Blake but ex designs by other artists. Bentley 577 notes Maverick's contri ecuted by another engraver within Blake's lifetime, much like butions to the New York ed. but does not record Anderson's the plates in the Paris 1799 ed. of Marie et Caroline, based on wood engraving after Blake. Blake's plates after his own designs first published in Mary

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 115 In the First Garden. Water color on ivory, 21.6 x 14.6 cm., dated to 1828. Bonhams Auction, London, 13 March, #69, illus. color (£55,000 in the price list on an estimate of £50,000-80,000). In its price lists, Bonhams records the hammer price (i.e., the winning bid) exclusive of buyer's fees (15% on the first £30,000; 10% thereafter). See illus. 11.

Pilgrim's Progress, Christian on the Delectable Mountain. Oil, 48 x 38 cm., datable to the early 1830s. SL, 10 July, #109, illus. color (not sold; estimate £20,000-30,000).

Study for The Eve of Separation. Pencil, approx. 12.5 x 10.5 cm., pasted to a sheet with a sketch of a leg and a hand, also by Richmond. Garton & Co., July private offer ($11,000).

A Young Girl Resting Under a Tree. Oil, 30.5 x 35.6 cm. Spink, Aprir'Small Picture Show" cat., #30, dated to the early 1830s by Spink, illus. color (price on application). 9 A tattoo based on Ei4rope, pi. 1 ("The Ancient of Days"). Black ink beneath human skin, 17x11 cm., on the left leg of Charles A. Bufalino, Riverside, California. Executed by "Ja• ROMNEY, GEORGE son" at Body Adornments, Santa Cruz, California, Feb. 1993, based on a drawing by "Cooper" adapted from Blake's relief A folio of drawings. 4 sheets, pencil, 1 with pen and brown etching. Photo by R. Essick, digitalized and enlarged by J. ink, the largest 28 x 41.5 cm. SL, 3 April, #34, 1 sheet illus. Sullivan, Sept. 1996. In A Vision of the Last Judgment, Blake (£345). asks us to "Enter into" his "Images" (E 560). Bufalino has re• versed and literalized this suggestion by entering one of Blake's A folio of drawings. 3 sheets, 2 pen and ink, 1 pencil, each most famous images into his body. approx. 19.5 x 16 cm. SL, 3 April, #35, 1 sheet illus. (£747).

A folio of studies for The Sisters, Contemplating on Mortal• ity. 6 on 4 sheets, pencil, 2 with pen and ink, sheets approx. The Procession of the Flitch of Bacon at Dunmow, Essex. Pen• 15 x 20.5 cm. SL, 3 April, #37 (£402). cil, pen and gray ink, gray wash, on 2 joined sheets, 30.5 x 76.8 cm. CL, 9 July, #21, illus. (£2875). A folio of studies of John Howard, the Prison Reformer, Vis• iting a Lazaretto. 3 sheets, pencil, 14 x 23 cm. and 2 sheets Roman Soldiers, pen and ink, gray wash, approx. 9x10 cm. 18 x 13.5 cm. SL, 3 April, #36, 1 illus. (£402). Abbott & Holder, June private offer (£70).

Death Scene, Possibly the Death of Hector. Oil, oval, 29 x 35 A Street Scene, SouthaU. Pencil, pen and gray ink, water cm. SL, 10 July, #99, illus. color (£1840). color, 12.7 x 8.9 cm., signed. CL, 9 July, #74 (£1955).

Studies for the Head of David. Pen and brown ink, 17 x 14 When Love Was a Boy. Water color, 14 x 17.8 cm. Bonhams cm. SL, 3 April, #38 (£437). Auction, London, 13 March, #90, illus. (not sold; estimate £200-300).

SHERMAN, WELBY Aesop, Fables, 1793. Heritage Book Shop, March private offer, 2 vols., recent calf ($1250); another copy, 2 vols., title "The Shepherd," etching/engraving probably based on a de• page to vol. 1 with the vignette after Stothard worn and sign by Palmer. N. W. Lott, Feb. private offer, 1 of about 5 rubbed, contemporary calf, modern folding case (S1500). known impressions (price on application). Beeleigh Abbey Books, June cat. BA758, #72, 2 vols., some foxing, full morocco rubbed (£450). Claude Cox, July cat. STOTHARD, THOMAS 115, #18, 2 vols., later calf (£165).

Group of 6 wash drawings, 3 colored, 6.5 x 6.5 cm. to 11 x Akcnside, Pleasures of the Imagination, 1810. Charles 8 cm., signed. BBA, 6 June, #86 (Krown & Spellman, £161). Traylen, Nov. cat. 120, #189 (£20).

116 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 10 Samuel Palmer, Sabrina, an il• lustration to Milton's Comus. Water color and body color, squared for copying. 53 x 75 cm., datable to 1856. Sabrina stands on the left, near "the smooth Severn stream," where she visits "her herds along the twilight meadows" (Comus, lines 825, 844). The very light squaring may have been executed in prepara• tion for the more highly finished water color of the design, last re• corded in a Christie's sale of 18 March 1935, #38, and since untraced. Photo courtesy of Sotheby's London.

Anon., The Victim, in Five Letters to Adolphus, 3rd ed., Lon• Book of Gems, 1868. Ian Hodgkins, June cat. 87, #48, foxed, don, 1819. Stuart Bennett, Feb. cat. 23, #139, frontispiece morocco backed boards (£120). by James Parker (Blake's fellow apprentice under Basire) after Stothard, contemporary calf rebacked ($200). The pi., Bray, Life of Stothard, 1851, extra-illustrated copies only. inscribed "The Victim," is described in A. C. Coxhead, Tho• Robert Clark, Jan. cat. 42, #216, extended to 2 vols, with c. mas Stothard, R. A: An Illustrated Monograph (London: 125 engravings after Stothard, many illustrating Bullen, 1906) 199, but the book for which it was made has Shakespeare, 19th-century morocco rubbed (£400). not been previously recorded. The imprint on the pi. is dated 1800, and thus it seems probable that the pi. also ap• Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, Pickering ed., 1824. Claude peared in the 1st (1800) and 2nd (date unknown) eds. of Cox, July cat. 115, #213, uncut in original cloth, rubbed the book. According to Bennett's sale cat., The Victim is (£45). about prostitution. Cowper, Poems, 1800. William Allen, May cat. 323, #2569, Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health, 1795. Claude Cox, Jan. 2 vols., 1 pi. loose and torn ($15). Howes Bookshop, Oct. cat. 112, #48, slight waterstaining in upper margin of pis. cat. 272, #146, 2 vols. (£95). (£45). Cromek, Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, 1810. Bell's British Theatre, 1791-95. Robert Frew, June London Blackwell's, July cat. Bl 17, #93, half roan (£90). Book Fair, 26 vols., lacking some pis. but including at least 1 after Stothard, contemporary calf worn (£350). Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Heritage Book Shop, Feb. private offer, 1883 ed., 2 vols., extra-illus. with the Stothard de• Bible, published Macklin, 1800. See under Fuseli, above. signs engraved by "J. Stephenson" (probably James Stephenson, 1828-86), quarter calf ($680). The Stephenson Bijou, 1828. Thomas Thorp, May cat. 492, #34, slight fox• pis. have not been previously recorded. ing, publisher's roan-backed boards worn (£60). Claude Cox, Nov. cat. 117, #193, slight spotting, original morocco- Falconer, Shipwreck, 1794. Howes Bookshop, March cat. backed boards (£55). 269, #65 (£45). Fenelon, Adventures ofTelemachus, 1795. Howes Bookshop, Boccaccio, Decamerone, Pickering ed., 1825. Pickering & March cat. 269, #70, 2 vols, in 1, contemporary calf worn Chatto, March cat. 173, #16, 3 vols., contemporary mo• (£120). rocco ($400). Hayley, Triumphs of Temper, 1788. W. 8c V. Dailey, March private offer, contemporary calf ($150).

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 117 Spring 1997 The Keepsake. The Fine Books Co., Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, 4 vols., 1831-33, 1835, modern cloth ($385 the set). BBA, 25 April, #474, 9 vols., 1828-36, browned, contem• porary half morocco worn (Cudia, £149 on an estimate of £30-40). The vols, for 1828-30, 1832, and 1834-36 contain pis. after Stothard.

Literary Souvenir, ed. Watts, 1832. John Hart, Feb. cat. 37, #3, original morocco (£45).

Milton, Paradise Lost, Pickering ed., 1828. Pickering & Chatto, March cat. 173, #82, contemporary cloth slightly worn ($135). The frontispiece by Augustus Fox after Stothard has not been recorded in the literature on Stothard, but it is noted in Geoffrey Keynes, William Pickering, Pub• lisher: A Memoir and a Check-List of His Publications, rev. ed. (London: Galahad P, [1969]) 79.

Milton, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Comus, Ar• cades, Lycidas, etc., etc., pub. Tegg, 1823. Dirk Cable, Aug. private offer, contemporary (publisher's?) calf gilt ($85).

Milton, Poetical Works, pub. Sharpe, 1810. William Reese, Feb. cat. 153, #458, 3 vols., extra-illus. copy, 19th-century morocco ($350). Besides the 3 title-page vignettes after Stothard, apparently 1st used in a Sharpe ed. of 1805, there is an added pi. in the Reese copy, with the scratched signa• tures of Stothard and Legat (the latter as the engraver) that would seem to be a composite illus. to "L'Allegro" and "II 11 George Richmond, In the First Garden. Water color on ivory, Penseroso." I have not been able to identify the ed. for which 21.6x 14.6 cm., dated to 1828. The figure of Eve is very similar this pi. was executed. Also added are pre-publication proofs to her portrayal in Adam and Fxc in the Garden of Eden (also of the pis. from Milton, Paradise Lost, published by Du called The Fall of Man), a pencil and chalk drawing by Rich• Roveray in 1802. Pis. 1 and 3 after Fuseli are before all let• mond sold SL, 10 July 1986, #88, illus. (£880). The water color ters, pis. 2,4, and 6 bear only scratched signatures; pi. 5 has illustrated here was untraced since its sale at the auction of scratched signatures but lacks the ruled frame. These proofs works from Richmond's studio in 1896 until 1995. It was pur• are printed on the same laid paper used in the large-paper chased in 1896 by Richmond's daughter, Julia Robinson, from issue of Du Roveray's 1802 Paradise Lost. whom it descended through a branch of the family residing in Jersey. The work was stored in an attic until rediscovered in 1995 and presented on Antique* Roadshow, a British televi• Novelist's Magazine, 1783. W 8c V. Dailey, Peter Wilkins only, sion program in which people bring various artifacts (mostly extracted, modern quarter calf ($150). junk or a notch above) before art dealers for their appraisals. For a color illus. and brief comments, see Huon Mallalieu, Poets of Great Britain, pub. Bell, 1772-84. Charles Traylen, "Around the Salesrooms," Country Life 190 (4 April 1996): 72- July cat. 119, #258, vols. 1-53 only, in a wood cabinet, from 73. Photo courtesy of Bonhams. the library of Robert Burns (£6000).

Pope, Essay on Man, 1822. Adam Mills, Sept. cat. 38, #133, both uncut in original boards, hinges worn (£175). BBA, uncut in original printed boards (£28). 25 April, #343,1838 ed., large paper, pis. on laid India, scat• tered foxing, contemporary morocco (R. Clark, £184 on Rogers, Italy. William Hale, Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, an estimate of £60-80); same copy, Robert Clark, Aug. cat. 1830 ed., early calf ($250). Francis Edwards, Feb. cat. 1318, 44, #320 (£250). BBA, 9 May, #12, 1838 ed., with Rogers, #162, 1836 ed., apparently with the steel engravings after Poems, 1838, pis. on laid India in Italy, contemporary mo• Stothard 1st pub. in 1830 (this 1836 ed. not previously re• rocco by Hayday, slightly rubbed (Marks, £276). Claude corded), some light spotting, morocco worn (£40). Maggs, Cox, Sept. cat. 116, #78, 1830 ed., browned, uncut in mod• April cat. 1206, #371, 1830 ed., with Roger, Poems, 1834, ern half morocco (£60); #188, 1839 ed., uncut in original

118 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 cloth (£28). Jeff Weber, Nov. cat. 43, #78, 1830 ed., some #390, fine contemporary morocco, binding illus. color light foxing, fancy calf binding, silk endpapers, fore-edge ($350). painting of a view of Vesuvius painted by Martin Frost, c. 1994-95 ($750). Sterne, Sentimental Journey, 1792. Swann, 12 Dec, #336, contemporary calf ($175). Rogers, Poems. SL, 18 Dec. 1995, #201, Moxon 1839 ed., no pis. described but probably with the wood engravings Thomson, Seasons, 1793. Richard Budd, Nov. cat. 28, #286, by Clennell after Stothard, inscribed "From the author to pis. foxed (£80). his Friend Mary Shelley," original cloth worn, hinges re• paired with paper (Spademan, £460). Robert Clark, Jan. Townshend, Poems, 1796. W. & V Dailey, March private cat. 42, #260, 1816 ed., "contemporary binding" rubbed offer, large paper, top edge gilt, others uncut, half morocco (£35). Robert Frew, Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, 1838 ed., ($250). contemporary calf ($225). Second Story Books, Feb. Los Angeles Book Fair, 1834 ed., elaborately decorated Victo• Walton, Complete Angler, Pickering ed., 1836. Heritage rian vellum ($150). Howes Bookshop, March cat. 269, #763, Book Shop, Feb. private offer, 2 vols., publisher's(?) calf 1834 ed., with Italy, 1836 ed., some foxing, 2 vols, uniformly richly gilt ($1000); another copy, 2 vols., later calf ($680). bound in contemporary half morocco (£125). Ian Hodgkins, June cat. 87, #226, 1860 ed., scattered foxings Young, Night Thoughts. J & J House, Feb. Los Angeles Book publisher's cloth worn (£38). Peter Baring, July London Fair, 1798 ed., contemporary calf ($300). Deighton, Bell, Book Fair, 1838 ed., with Italy, 1838 ed., both large paper, March cat. 269, #072, 1798 ed., later full morocco (£175). published proofs on laid India in Poems, lettered sts. in Italy, Howes Bookshop, Oct. cat. 272, #483, 1813 ed. (£125). matching contemporary morocco (£550). David Downes, July private offer, 1822 ed., quarter calf (£40). Mealy's auc• Young, Works, 1802. Howes Bookshop, March cat. 269, tion, Dublin, 4 Dec, #798, 1816 ed., wood engravings by #204,3 vols., contemporary morocco (£300). This ed., con• Clennell after Stothard, uncut in original boards, title page taining the Night Thoughts pis. of 1798 with 1802 imprints, illus. (estimate IR£200-300). has not been previously recorded. There is also an 1813 issue of the Works with the same pis., the imprints of 1802 Rogers, Poetical Works, 1856. Bernard Shapero, Jan. cat., retained. #151, with the Clennell wood engravings after Stothard, later % morocco (£85). Yriarte, Music, A Didactic Poem, 1807. John Drury, July cat. 87, #140, uncut in boards rebacked (£250). Sargent, The Mine, 1788. Poetry Bookshop, May cat. 6, #19, some foxing of pis. (£45). VON HOLST, THEODORE MATTHIAS A Series of Engravings to Illustrate the Works of Shakspeare, by Heath, Hall, Rhodes, Fitler, etc., 1817. See under Fuseli, Bertalda Frightened by Apparitions. Oil, 78.5 x 62.5 cm. SL, above. 3 April, #130, illus. color (not sold; estimate £6000-8000).

Shakespeare, New Edition of Shakespeare's Plays, 1802-04. Hero and Leander. Water color, signed with monogram and BBA, 6 June, #152a, 11 pis. only, described in the cat. as dated on the verso 1833, 25 x 18.5 cm. SL, 14 Nov., #96, "Scenes from Shakespeare," framed (not sold). illus. color (£3162).

Shakespeare, The Plays, Stockdale ed., 1807. See under Appendix: New Information on Blake's Engravings Fuseli, above. Listed below are substantive additions or corrections to Shakespeare, The Plays, Pickering ed., 1825. SL, 23 April, Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake: A Catalogue #129, 9 vols., original cloth worn (£322). (1983), and Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book Illus• trations (1991). Abbreviations and citation styles follow the Shakespeare, Seven Ages of Man, 8 pis. after Stothard, 1799. respective volumes. Heritage Book Shop, Dec. cat. 202, #324, "printed in color," some light foxing, contemporary half morocco rebacked The Separate Plates of William Blake: A Catalogue ($2250). "Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims," 3rd st., p. 66, copy 3R. Somerville, The Chace, 1796. Phillip Pirages, Sept. cat. 37, Acquired July 1986 by the Frank Martin Gallery,

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 119 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania. in the image but with all letters, was acquired in March Muhlenberg accession no. EL 85.70.0542. 1996 by RNE from the print dealer N. W Lott.

"George Cumberland's Card," p. 113, impression 1M. Ac• P. 86-87, Hayley, The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of Wil• quired Feb. by G. E. Bentley, Jr. For a previously unrecorded liam Cowper, pis. 1 (portrait of Cowper after George Rom- impression in black ink with a previously unrecorded wa• ney) and 2 (portrait of Hayley's mother after D. Heins). termark, see under "Separate Plates" in the sales lists above. Re-engravings of these plates, signed by the American en• graver Peter Maverick, appear in the New York, 1803, ed. "Rev. John Caspar Lavater," p. 156. The small portrait of of Hayley's book (1: frontispiece and 1: facing p. 3). Lavater signed "Holl sculp" was published in James Harrison, The Biographical Cabinet, 2 vols. (London: Pp. 88-98, Hayley, The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1823), vol. 1, unpaginated. William Cowper, pi. 4 (the weather-house and Cowper's tame hares). A wood engraving based on this plate, in part Plates by Blake and Butts, Father and Son, pp. 211-12. To designed by Blake, appears in the edition of Hayley's book the list of plates by Thomas Butts, add the following: published in New York in 1803 (2: 245). The wood engrav• h. "Man on a Drinking Horse." approx. 2.5 x 6.5 cm. Signed ing is signed "Anderson F[ecit]." (Alexander Anderson, in the plate lower right, "T Butts sc / 12 Jany 1806." An im• 1775-1870). See illus. 8 in this sales review. pression is in the collection of William L. Schneider, who informs me that the original mounting board (now re• "False and Conjectural Attributions," p. 126, no. 31, The moved) contained the following inscription: "Man on a Minor's Pocket Book (1814). At the time of writing the cata• Drinking Horse, an original engraving by Thomas Butts, logue, I had not seen this volume and its frontispiece, at• Jr., now printed for the first time (from the original plate, tributed to Blake in the BMPR acquisition records. A copy engraved in 1806) in an exclusive edition of two hundred of the book was sold at Sotheby's London, 21 Nov. 1996, and fifty copies for members of the miniature print Soci• lot 146, for £2415. The catalogue includes a reproduction ety, 222 Dwight Building, Kansas City, Mo." of the unsigned frontispiece in question. In my opinion, the plate was neither designed nor engraved by Blake, al• William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations though I must admit that the image of a child holding a snake before an ogre within a crepuscular forest has a P. 42, J. C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, pi. 4. In addition haunting, gothic quality not unlike some of Blake's darker to the recorded signature (Blake sculp), below and to the images of the fallen world (e.g., the color print of "Hecate"). right of the image, there is a signature {Blake Sc) very lightly According to Sotheby's catalogue, the full title, publisher, scratched immediately below, and on the same slight di• and actual date of the book is The Minor's Pocket Book, for agonal as, the line defining the lower margin of the figure's the Youth of Both Sexes ([London]: Darton, Harvey and neck. Very small fragments of this previously-unrecorded Darton, [1813]). The authorship is attributed to Ann Tay• signature are visible in Fig. 64 of William Blake's Commer• lor "and others." cial Book Illustrations.

P. 42, J. C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, Literature: G. E. Bentley, Jr., "The Physiognomy of Lavater's Essays: False Imprints '1792' and '1789,'" Blake 29 (1995): 16-23 (a de• tailed examination of the book's publishing history, show• ing that the "1792" edition could not have been printed before L817).

P. 43, The Original Works of Hogarth, "Beggar's Opera" en• graved by Blake after Hogarth. An impression of the 4th St from the 1822 ed., printed on laid India paper, is in the RNE collection (acquired March 1996 from N. W. Lott). This impression, along with other Hogarth prints from the 1822 ed. acquired by Lott, indicate that some copies of this ed. were printed on laid India.

P. 48, Darwin, Botanic Garden, pi. 6 ("Tornado"). The proof listed in Raymond I ister's collection, lacking finishing work

120 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 William Blake and His Circle: In general, Keiko Aoyama is responsible for works in Japa nese, and I am greatly indebted to her for her meticulous A Checklist of Publications and accuracy and her patience in translating the words and con ventions of Japan into our very different context. Discoveries in 1996 I take Blake Books (1977) and Blake Books Supplement (1995), faute de mieux, to be the standard bibliographical authorities on Blake1 and have noted significant differences BY G. E. BENTLEY, JR. from them. With the Assistance ofKeiko Aoyama for N.b. I have made no attempt to record manuscripts, type Japanese Publications scripts, computer printouts, radio or television broadcasts, calendars, music, pillows,2 posters,3 published scores,"1 re 5 he annual checklist of scholarship and discoveries con corded readings and singings, rubber stamps, Tshirts, 6 Tcerning William Blake and his circle records publica tatoos, video recordings, or email related to Blake. tions for the current year (say, 1996) and those for previ The chief indices used to discover what relevant works ous years which are not recorded in Blake Books (1977) and have been published were (1) Annual Bibliography of En Blake Books Supplement (1995). The organization of the glish Language and Literature, LXVIII for 1993 (1995), pp. checklist is as follows: 37477 (#58165772); (2) BHA: Bibliography of the His tory of Art, Bibliographic d'Histoire de l'Art (1995); (3) Division I: William Blake Books in Print (October 1996); (4) British Humanities In dex 1995 (1996); (5) English and General Literature Index Part I: Editions, Translations, and Facsimiles of 19001933 (1934), pp. 17879;... 19341940 (1941), p. 121; Blake's Writings ... 19411947 (1948), pp. 15657; ... 19481954 (1955), pp. Section A: Original Editions and Reprints 19394;... 19551959 (1960), 12223; ... 19601964 (1965), Section B: Collections and Selections pp. 13536; ... 19651969 (1970), pp. 13132;... 19701974 Part II: Reproductions of his Art (1975), pp. 15052; ... 19751979 (1980), pp. 16061; ... 19801984 (1985), pp. 18182; ... 198589 (1990), 16465; Part III: Commercial Book Engravings ... 19901994 (1995), pp. 18081;(6) The Romantic Move Part IV: Catalogues and Bibliographies ment: A Selective and Critical Bibliography for 1993 (1994), Part V: Books Blake Owned pp. 6573, and (7) The Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV Part VI: Criticism, Biography, and Scholarly for 1993 (1996) (by David Worrall). Studies Note: Collections of essays on Blake and issues of periodi I am grateful to more friends and correspondents than I cals devoted entirely to him are listed in one place, with can conveniently name, but I must offer special thanks to Julia G. Bentley (for translations from Chinese), John crossreferences to their authors. Byrne, D.W. Dorrbecker, Robert N. Essick, Arthur Free man, William Halloran, Giles Harvey, Nelson Hilton, Ted Division II: Blake's Circle Hoffman, Heather Howell, Marlborough Rare Books, This division is organized by individual (say, William Michael Millgate, Jeanne Moskal, James Northrup, Michael Hayley or John Flaxman), with works by and about Blake's O'Neill, Oxford University Press, Morton D. Paley, Mar friends and patrons, living individuals with whom he had garet Sharman, Joseph Viscomi, Xianyi Yang, and especially to Keiko Aoyama and Dr. E. B. Bentley. significant direct and demonstrable contact. It includes Thomas Butts, Thomas Hartley Cromek, George 1 Except for the states of the plates for Blake's commercial book en Cumberland, John Flaxman and his family, Henry Fuseli, gravings, where the standard authority is R. N. Essick, William Blake's Thomas and William Hayley, John Linnell and his family, Commercial Book Illustrations (1991). Samuel Palmer, James Parker, George Richmond, Thomas : For one with part of "The Tyger," see R. N. Essick, "Blake in the Stothard, and John Varley. It does not include important Marketplace, 1996," Blake, XXX (1997), hereafter cited as Essick, Mar ketplace, 1996. contemporaries with whom Blake's contact was negligible ■ E.g.,*TheTyger(Ashington,Northumberland: MidNAG [c. 1976]) or nonexistent such as John Constable and William Poster No. 35, c. 12 x 18." Wordsworth and Edmund Burke; such major figures are * For example, §Dmitri Smirnov, Jacob's Ladder: Blake's Pictures for dealt with more comprehensively elsewhere, and the light 16 Players, Op. 58 (N.Y.,1993); §Dmitri Smirnov, Shest' Stiklwyvorcnii they throw upon Blake is very dim. ... Six Poems by William Blake: For Voice and Organ (1981); §Dmitri Reviews listed here are only for books which are sub Smirnov, Vremena Goda ...: The Seasons for Violin, Flute, Viola, and Harp (1986). stantially about Blake, not for those with only, say, a chap 1 For stamps of America and Essick's portrait of Blake made by a ter on Blake. These reviews are listed under the book re Santa Barbara firm, see Essick, Marketplace, 1996. viewed; the authors of the reviews may be recovered from 6 For a tattoo (1993) of "The Ancient of Days" on the left leg of the index. Charles A. Bufalino, see Essick, Marketplace, 1996.

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 121 I should also like to express my gratitude for and joy in a be able to supply and on which I can therefore scarcely com• Visiting Research Fellowship at Hatfield College, where ment. much of the work on this checklist was done in the au• In terms of Blake's original works, the most tantalizing is tumn of 1996, and to my colleagues there in the English the discovery of a broken pair of spectacles in Blake's cot• department of Durham University. tage in Felpham which could have belonged to the poet. A good deal of new information about the earliest series Symbols of colored facsimiles of Blake's works in illuminated print• ing by William Muir has been discovered in the Crookshank *Works prefixed by an asterisk include one or more il• Collection in the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester. lustrations by Blake or depicting him. If there are more These give details of when copies were sold and which origi• than 19 illustrations, the number is specified. If the illus• nals were reproduced. They also include fascinating inscrip• trations include all those for a work by Blake, say Thel or tions attributed to Blake from Thel (A) and Marriage of Cotnus, the work is identified. Heaven and Hell (F) and the allegation that Marriage (F) §Works preceded by a section mark are reported on se• once belonged to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. cond-hand authority. Blake's designs for Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress have been 18 Numbers prefixed to Blake's manuscripts, original edi• sold by the Frick Collection in New York, where they were tions, and commercial engravings are the standard ones for half a century, and they are now in a private collection which identify them in Blake Books. in England. Among Blake's commercial book engravings, there are a Abbreviations good many new locations recorded here, and a facsimile has been published of George Cumberland's Attempt to De• BB G.E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Books (1977) scribe Hafod (1996), though with no new information as to BBS Blake Books Supplement (1995) whether Blake had a hand in the engravings in it. And a Blake Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly great store of information about Lavater's Essays on Physi• ognomy, in the archive of John Murray, not only demon• Introduction strates the conditions in which one of the most distin• guished illustrated books of the century was produced but The number of publications recorded on Blake in this records what Blake was paid for his small part in the enor• checklist for 1996 is very considerable: over 160 essays, 136 mous undertaking. reviews, 13 books on Blake, 14 editions of his poetry, and The most impressive and significant of the catalogues re• 10 exhibitions and catalogues of his work in languages as corded here is Robin Hamlyn's William Blake: visiones de diverse as Catalan, Chinese, Czeck, English, French, Ger• mundos eternas for the 1996 exhibition in Madrid. Most of man, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, the essays except for Hamlyn's are curiously irrelevant to Russian, Scotch, Spanish, and Swedish. However, the flood Blake and to the pictures and books exhibited, but the works of new publications is not nearly so great as this implies, shown are extensive and of the first class, and the 180 color for there are only 54 essays, 67 reviews, and nine books plates include complete reproductions of Songs of Innocence from 1996 recorded here. The even larger number of es• (X), Europe (B), and Job. As there has been very little pub• says and reviews dating from 1784 to 1995 were first no• lication about Blake in Spanish before 1996, this is an as• ticed in a variety of sources, chiefly English and General tonishing accomplishment. Literature Index for 1900-94 and the on-line catalogue of A large proportion of the essays and reviews published the Research Libraries Group. on Blake in 19967 appeared in Blake/An Illustrated Quar• The 14 editions of Blake's poetry newly noted here are terly, in Journal of the Blake Society at St James, and in vol• mostly of small significance; editions of the Songs trans• umes of reprinted essays edited by Noriko Kawasaki and lated into Spanish (1987) and Chinese (1988), collections David Punter. One of the most rewarding of the new essays in Chinese (1973), Latvian (1981), Portuguese (1977), Rus• is that by Joseph Viscomi in Blake, displaying a vast range sian (1993), and Scotch (1988), three broadsides (1930, of new information about Blake's faithful patron Thomas 1968, 1980), and an "Office Drawn from" the Marriage and Butts. Among the fascinating conclusions derived from elsewhere in Blake "for Use of St. Mark's in-the-Bourie" these facts is that when Butts ordered duplicates of Blake's (1920). Selected Poems (1996) and Songs of Innocence & designs, he may have intended them for different houses Experience [sic] (1996) are insufficiently original for the he owned, one of them used for a school for a young la• publisher to bother to record the name of the editor. The dies, and that the biblical subjects of many of these designs only likely exception seems to be the two volumes of Jerusa• may have had a pedagogical function. lem, edited and translated by Marcello Pagnini (1994), 7 N.b. As usual, 1 cannot, through linguistic ignorance, comment on which neither its Italian nor its English publisher seems to the 25 essays published in lapan anil the two in Korea.

122 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 Blake also serves Blake scholarship with its extensive re• Violet Tengberg's William Blake's "The Tyger": En ports of "Blake in the Marketplace" by Robert Essick and konstvelenskaplig analys och tolkning (1994) is a study in of "Blake and His Circle," to which a whole issue is devoted. Swedish of the Songs, reproduced from typescript and of One especially rewarding essay is the one by Stuart modest dimensions and pretensions. Peterfreund in Eighteenth-Century Life (1994) with its ar• The two most substantial new critical books recorded gument about "Blake—Prophet Against Ideology." Another here are Frank Vaughan's Again to the Life of Eternity: Wil• is Stephen Prickett's argument in his Origins of Narrative liam Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Thomas Gray (1996) concerning "Swedenborg and Blake: The (1996), with 139 folio pages and 116 plates, and Andrew Privatisation of Angels." And Karen Shabatai's argument Lincoln's Spiritual History: A Reading of William Blake's concerning "Blake's Hostility Towards the Jews" in ELH Vala or The Four Zoas (1995), a very substantial work (1996) raises disturbing issues which warrant serious re• though strangely unillustrated. Vaughan's book, which re• flection, though "Blake appears at best uninterested in the produces all Blake's watercolors for Gray in reduced size 'Jewish question.'" Michael Grenfell makes an attractive and monochrome, concludes very oddly that "Blake was though much overstated case in the Journal of the Blake not much interested in illustrating" Gray (7), even though Society of St James (1996) that "A Gnostic view is 'the' key to he must have spent a great deal of the time on his designs understanding Blake's dense mythologies," and G. E. for his good friend John Flaxman. Even more curiously, Bentley, Jr. provides illuminating parallels between the ca• the Gray designs are said to have been intended to implant reers of "James Parker and His Partner William Blake" in "not knowledge but a radical burning doubt" (18). These Studies in Bibliography (1996). are strange conclusions for the poet who wrote: There are the usual quota of attempts to consider Blake in terms of modern intellectual fashions like feminist the• He who shall teach the Child to Doubt ology, as well as a number of agreeable diversions. These The rotting Grave shall neer get out. ... include James Bogan's"centrifugal lark" in"Blake on a Bike," He who Doubts from what he sees the "electronic concert dedicated to the life and work of Will neer Believe do what you Please. If the Sun 8c Moon should doubt William Blake," and the Blake "Xword" (all in Journal of the Theyd immediately go out. Blake Society at St James). A few arguments seem particu• larly labored or perverse, such as Peter Ackroyd's claim in One may suspect that the purpose discovered in the Gray The Independent (1993) and elsewhere that Blake was a designs, "To educate one to rebel" (116) and "to free the "Cockney" (in the novel sense that he "expressed the true mind-forged manacles" (rather than "to free the manacled nature and spirit of London"). I should relish hearing that mind") tells us more of what the critic wishes than of what great London-lover Dr. Johnson respond to the allegation the artist intended. that he was a Cockney. Some arguments seem to be expir• Andrew Lincoln's Spiritual History is an altogether more ing, like Laocoon, in the grip of irresistible critical jargon, substantial and rewarding book, the most valuable critical such as the claims that "Blake appropriates the homology work newly recorded here. It is a detailed "staged reading" between biological and non-biological creativity to address of Vala or The Four Zoas designed for "new readers of The the politics of the copied text" (Julia Wright), that Molly Four Zoas" (v, ix) but rewarding for critics of all levels of Anne Rothenberg's book is written "in post-structuralist experience and sophistication. One of its most valuable fea• and 'post-post-structuralist' terms," and that in Jeanne tures is its analysis of the poem as "a universal history" (1), Moskal's book "the intrapsychic wins out over the with the aid of illumination from contemporary histori• intersubjective." ans such as Gibbon. The Last Judgment in the poem re• Though a number of critical books are newly recorded veals that man's prison "in a finite vision of the natural here, few have much pretension to novelty. Noriko world" is a "prison locked from the inside" (190); we are Kawasaki's Eden wa Kitaka: William Blake Ronshu: On the the inmates of ourselves, and the key to escape is in our Location of Eden: Studies on William Blake (1996) reprints own hands. Andrew Lincoln's Spiritual History is a work to five of her essays in Japanese (1988-95), one of them trans• which one can return repeatedly for light upon Blake's lated from English for the purpose, and David Punter's poem—and upon the nature of humanity. William Blake (1996) reprints 10 essays of 1970-87 by vari• ous authors. Victor Paananen's William Blake (1996) is an Completed this 27th Day of January 1997 at East Lake Apart• "Updated Edition" of a modest little book first published ments, Dongzhimenwai Dajie, Beijing in 1977.1 have not been able to see, and therefore cannot comment on, Richard O'Keefe's Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading (1995) (except to say that it is presumably a revised version of his dissertation), Francois Piquet's Blake et le Sacrt (1996) (ibid.) or William Richey's Blake's Altering Aesthetic (announced for Novem• ber 1996).

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 123 Division I: William Blake 12 §Daniel Mark Epstein, "The Two William Blakes, New Parti Criterion, XIII, No. 2 (October 1994), 10-22 (withViscomi's Editions, Translations Blake and the Idea of the Book [1993] and the other Blake and Facsimiles8 Trust volumes). 13 Iain Sinclair, "Customising Biography," London Review Section A: of Books, 22 February 1996, 16-19 (with Peter Ackroyd, Original Editions Blake [1995], and the Blake Trust reproductions of Songs of Innocence and of Experience [1991], The Early Illuminated Europe (1794[-1831]) Books [1993], The Continental Prophecies [1995], Milton Copy B [1993], and The Urizen Books [1995]) (there is no indica• History: ... Copy B from Glasgow University is reproduced tion that Sinclair has looked at Jerusalem—for a protest, in the 1996 2 February-7 April catalogue of the Fundacion see John Commander, below). "la Caixa" in Madrid, plates 28a-q. §*Jerusalem. Ed. 8c tr. Marcello Pagnini. 2 vols. (Florence: The First Book of Urizen (1794 [ -1815? ]) Giunti Gruppo Editoriale, 1994) ISBN: 88-09-20507-3. Plate 1 Vol. I is a facsimile of copy E, apparently using the same History:... Lent by "The Keynes Family Trust on deposit at ektachromes as in the 1991 Blake Trust edition. the Fitzwilliam Museum" to the 1996 2 February-7 April exhibition of the Fundacion "la Caixa" in Madrid, No. 30a. Receipt 1805 July5 For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (1820-1831?) History: Bought with the Joseph Holland Collection by Edition JohnWindlein 1995 and (according to Essick, Marketplace, For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise [B]. (London: Frederick 1996) and sold in June 1996 to the autograph dealer Ken• Hollyer, 1925) . neth Rendell. According to a prospectus (?1925), ordinary copies of this facsimile of the copy of Miss C. Carthew were for sale Songs of Innocence (1789[-1808?]) at 15s and 55 copies (only 50 of which were for sale) on CopyX "platinotype paper" at £4.4.0.'' History: PI. 9-10 from the Fitzwilliam and pi. 13-14, 16- 19, 23-25, 27, 34-36, 53-54 (the rest) from the National Jerusalem (1804[-20?][-1832?]) Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne) are reproduced together Copy E in the 1996 2 February-7 April catalogue of the Fundacion History: It was reproduced again in color in the Italian fac• "la Caixa" in Madrid, editions 17a-q. simile (1994). Plate 1 ^Announcing the Felpham Edition of Songs of Innocence by History:... Lent by "The Keynes Family Trust on deposit at William Blake: An Itaglio Plate Book Designed & Printed the Fitzwilliam Museum" to the 1996 2 February-7 April in Colour at the Pear Tree Press and Now Offered for Sub• exhibition of the Fundaci6n "la Caixa" in Madrid, No. 53a. scription. (Flansham, Bognor Regis, Sussex: Pear Tree Press, 1937) 4 leaves. Edition There seems to be no record of the publication of such Jerusalem, ed. M. D. Paley (Blake Trust, 1991) . an edition. The same ektachromes were apparently used in the fac• simile edited by Marcello Pagnini (1994). §Canciones de inocencia y de experiencia. Ed. J. L. Carames Reviews y S. G. Corugedo (Madrid, 1987). 11 §Jon Mee, Australian Journal of Art, X (1993), 105-06 Les Chants de I'Innocence. Tr. Alain Suied (1993) . Review 8 N.b. In this checklist,"facsimile" is taken to mean "an exact copy" 1 ^Francois Han, Europe, No. 772 (1994), 206-07. attempting very close reproduction of an original named copy includ• ing size of image, color of printing (and of tinting if relevant), and si/e, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794[-1831?]) color, and quality of paper, with no deliberate alteration as in page- Pis. 42, 47 ("The Tyger" and "The Human Abstract") order or numbering or obscuring of paper defects, History:... Lent by "The Keynes Family Trust on deposit at 9 A copy of the prospectus for all Hollycr's Blake reproductions is the Fitzwilliam Museum" to the 1996 2 February-7 April with the Mini facsimile of lor the Sexes in the West Sussex Records Office; the prospectus presumably pre dates llollyei's reproduction ol exhibition oi' the Fundacion "la Caixa" in Madrid, No. 27a- All Religion* art (hie (1926), which is not mentioned there. b.

Spring 1997 124 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Editions *Songs of Innocence and of Experience, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1970). The plates are reproduced in Gray, and Keynes's Intro• duction is translated by Yang Yi in Tianzhen yu jing yan zhige [Songs of Innocence and of Experience] (1988).

*Tianzhen yu jing yan zhige [Songs of Innocence and of Ex• perience]. Tr. Yang Yi [i.e., Jinru Yang]. (Changsha: Hunan Renmin Chuban Shi [Hunan Peoples Publishing House], May 1988) 8°, pp. 7, 210; ISBN: 7-217-00342-3 (hardback) and 7-217-00343-1 (paperback). G. Kaiensi [G. Keynes], "Yinhan [Introduction]" (1-8); T.S. Ailuete [T.S. Eliot], "Weillian Bulaike [William Blake]" (1-8 [bis]);"Fanzhedehua [Translator's comments],"dated 1 Half of a pair of gold-framed spectacles which were found the Fiftieth Anniversary of the War of Resistance Against about 1928 in Blake's cottage in Felpham and which may have Japanese Aggression, 13 August 1937 (204). The text con• belonged to Blake. They now belong to the owner of Blake's sists of faint pale Gray reproductions of the Songs from the cottage on Blake's Road, Felpham, who courteously supplied reproduction edited by Geoffrey Keynes (1970) of the Blake these photographs. Photo courtesy of Devereux Photography, Trust facsimile (19) of copy, with facing translations into Felpham. If any Blake readers should want a print of these Chinese and followed by short comments. photos, Mrs. Heather Howell writes that she would be happy to obtain them through Devereux Photography. Please con• Songs of Innocence and of Experience, ed. Andrew Lincoln tact her at Blake's Cottage, Blake's Road, Felpham, Bognor (1991) . Regis, West Sussex, PQ22 7 EB. Reviews 11 §Jon Mee, Australian Journal of Art, X (1993), 105-06 (with the Blake Trust Jerusalem [1991]). itance to (6) Mr. Giles Harvey." 12 §Daniel Mark Epstein, "The Two William Blakes," New Criterion,XU\,No. 2 (October 1994), 10-22 (withViscomi's Section B: Blake and the Idea of the Book [1993] and the other Blake Collections and Selections12 Trust volumes). 13 Iain Sinclair, "Customising Biography," London Review Blake: The Complete Poems, ed. W H. Stevenson, second of Books, 22 February 1996, 16-19 (with Peter Ackroyd, edition (1989). Blake [1995], and the Blake Trust reproductions of Jerusa• Review lem [1991], The Early Illuminated Books [1993], The Conti• 1 Francois Piquet, Etudes Anglaises, XLVII (1994), 478 nental Prophecies [1995], Milton [1993], and The Urizen (an account of the "nouveautes" in the second edition). Books [ 1995]) (there is no indication that Sinclair has looked at Songs—for a protest, see John Commander, below). §*Blake: Selected Poems. Ed. Mike Davis & Alan Pound. (Oxford: Heinemann Educational, 1996) Heinemann New Entry Poetry Bookshelf, viii, 168 pp. Spectacles at Felpham (illus. 1) Half a pair of nineteenth-century spectacles, found about Blake's Illuminated Books (The William Blake Trust). 1928 in a piece of rotting wood when the floor of Blake's Volume I: Jerusalem, ed. M. D. Paley (1991) . cottage in Felpham was relaid, may have been the poet's Volume II: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, ed. about 1803. They have simple magnification of 1.75 (1.0 Andrew Lincoln (1991) . being neutral). The spectacles, which fit neatly on the life- Volume III: The Early Illuminated Books, ed. Morris mask of Blake, belong to Mrs. Heather Howell, the owner Eaves, Robert N. Essick, & Joseph Viscomi (1993) . Volume IV: The Continental Prophecies, ed. D. W There is No Natural Religion (1794-95) Copy E History: (5) From Mrs. Ramsay Harvey, it passed by inher- 11 It was withdrawn from the Christie sale of the other Harvey Blakes (30 Nov 1993) when its authenticity was questioned on the basis of the 10 The spectacles Blake owned when he died are in the Fitzwilliam discoveries of Joseph Viscomi. u Here and below I ignore mere reprints. Museum (see Blake [1996]).

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 125 Spring 1997 Dorrbecker (1995) . Volume V: Milton a Prophecy and the Final Illuminated Books, ed. Robert N. Essick & Joseph Viscomi (1993) . Volume VI: The Urizen Books, ed. David Worrall (1995) .

The Continental Prophecies, ed. D. W. Dorrbecker (1995) . Reviews 1 Iain Sinclair, "Customising Biography," London Review of Books, 22 February 1996, 1619 (with Peter Ackroyd, Blake [1995], and the Blake Trust reproductions of Jerusalem [ 1991 ], The Early Illuminated Books [1993], The Continen tal Prophecies [1995], Milton [1993],and The Urizen Books [1995]) (there is no indication that Sinclair has looked at The Continental Prophecies—for a protest, see John Com mander, below). 2 Barthelemy Jobert, Revue de VArt, No. 112 (1996), 78 (with Joseph Viscomi, Blake and the Idea of the Book [1993], and The Urizen Books, ed. David Worrall [1995]) (barely mentioned).

The Early Illuminated Books, ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. 2 Life mask of William Blake wearing the halfpair of spec Essick, and Joseph Viscomi (1993) . tacles. When the mask was made, the clay pinned his ears to Reviews his head, so the spectacleframe had to be fixed to his head 3 §Daniel Mark Epstein, "The Two William Blakes," New with anachronistic sellotape. Photo courtesy of Devereux Criterion, XIII, No. 2 (October 1994), 1022 (with Photography, Fclpham. Viscomi's Blake and the Idea of the Book [1993] and the other Blake Trust volumes). The Rev. Mr. Arthur Chichester Crookshank (18891958) 4 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies for 1993 acquired from Quaritch most of the Muir facsimiles, many (1996), 322 ("splendid"). of them identified as "Mr Muirs Master Copy," which he 5 Michael Ferber, Blake XXIX, 3 (Winter 199596), 8890 bequeathed to the West Sussex Record Office . ("an altogether splendid volume," with "the most lucid All these Master Copies have notes made in Quaritch's shop and succinct summary of Blake's methods of book ("Q"), and some have notes by Muir ("M") as well. In the production that I have ever seen" [88]). record below, the details not in Blake Book Supplement are 6 Iain Sinclair, "Customising Biography," London Review of given in bold face, and the copy reproduced is given within Books, 22 February 1996, 1619 (with Peter Ackroyd, Blake parentheses "(A)." [1995], and the Blake Trust reproductions of Jerusalem America (A) [1991], Songs of Innocence and of Experience [1991], The Q: "copied from an original [A] lent to Mr Muir by Mr Continental Prophecies [1995], Milton [1993],and The Quaritch in 1905. It is now in the U.S.A. 24 copies were Urizen Books [1995]) (there is no indication that Sinclair rs sold by Mess Quaritch." . has looked at The Early Illuminated Books—for a protest, Ancient of Days [Europe pi. 1] (D)13 see John Commander, below). M: "Fifty copies ... were sold by Mr Quaritch (at 21/ 7 S. L. M., Gazette des BeauxArts, 138cAnn£e (1996), 19 each—All numbered) between 18,h May 1885 and 14,h (with Milton a Prophecy and the Find Illuminated Books, August 1919 [. ] | P.S. Reference to documents shows me ed. Robert N. Essick & Joseph Viscomi [1993]) (the series that the above statement is not quite correct, Mr Pearson is "une magnifique collection"). had sold nine copies before Mr Quaritch began"; ^Earth's Answer (Madley, Hereford: Five Seasons Press "Coloured from an original by Blake in the British Museum." . [1980s]) Broadside. " The note appears on the verso of the last leaf of the first version of "The Edition of the Works of Wm. Blake" printed by Will //,,/ with which it is bound. A duplicate uncolored copy of Europe pi. 1 iam Muir at"The Blake Press at Edmonton," England (1884 is marked "rough piooi ""I 'oi rented from life" WSRO ■ West Sussex 1936) . Record Office).

Spring 1997 126 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Book ofThel [first version] (D)14 copy by Chatto 8c Windus c. 1864 From the M: "Copied from British Museum Copy [D]"; "Fifty Original [F] that belonged to D.G. Rossetti." "This copy is Copies of this Book (all numbered) were produced and facsimiled after the Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy—The 17 sold in 1884-90 at £2.2 0[.] M^Pearson sold the first titles given to the plates are after the Beckford copy [A]." twenty copies between October 1884 and April 1885. At "20 copies have been sold." The inscriptions are: Pi. 1 that date he retired from business because 'he found (titlepage): "Union of the Elements"; pi. 2: "Earth"; pi. 3: that he had £20,000 and he did not want more'[.] He "Fire"; pi. 4: "Water"; pi. 5: "Air"; pi. 11: "Dawn"; pi. 14: introduced me to Mr Quaritch, who continued the "The Body of Hector"; pi. 15: "Genius"; pi. 16: "Ugolino"; 18 work[.] He received and sold the remaining thirty copies pi. 20: "A Dream"; pi. 21: "Satan addressing the Sun"; pi. between 27th April 1885 and 8,h September 1890[.]" 24: "Arbitrary Power." It is reproduced from a color-printed . copy, and the only color-printed copy is F, which was Book ofThel [second version] (J) bought by R. M. Milnes in 1852 and sold by his son in 1903. Q: "24 copies have been sold"; M: "This copy of Thel [J] There seems to be no other evidence that copy F (or any is coloured from one that Mr Bernard Quaritch lent to me other copy) "belonged to D.G. Rossetti." . in 1885-6. He sold it afterwards to an American [Amy Marriage of Heaven and Hell [third version] (I) r Lowell c. 1900], so it is now in the U.S.A." With it are M: "M Muirs Master Copy of the Fitzwilliam Heaven & duplicates of pi. 2, 4, 6-7, identified (M) on a separate Hell I about five copies were sold[.] The original is in the leaf: "The four pages just before this are from originals FitzWilliam Museum Cambridge." "Copied in April 1886 [from the Small Book of Designs] in the B. M. print by J. D. Wallis from the original in the Fitzwilliam Mu• Room | They were coloured by [Miss] E. J. Druitt" as in seum at Cambridge. | Note the letter press should all be color-printing. . printed in red, not in yellow." The titlepage verso in in• st Book ofThel [third version] (A) scribed in pencil "Richard Edward Kerrick | August 31 "The Beckford copy" (i.e., A), bought by Quaritch at the 1856" as in copy I. "Coloured thus £4.4.0." It bears annota• Beckford sale in 1883, sold to E. W. Hooper in 1891. Both tions from the Beckford copy. . the second and third versions in the WSRO have inscrip• Song of Los (A) tions on the designs: Pi. 2 (titlepage): "Lives [?Loves] of M: "This is Mr Muir's Master Copy of the Song of Los cop• the plants15 in Summer"; pi. 4: "Flowers personified"; pi. ied from the original in the British Museum [A] | 6: "Spring"; pi. 7: "Fallen seeds protected by the earth 21 copies were sold by Messrs Quaritch." . Autumn." The third version facsimile also has a note: There is No Natural Religion (A, H, L) "Perhaps Beckford got these titles from Blake when "Mr Muirs Master Copy of No Nat Relig | 50 copies were buying the Book," though this copy of the book was in sold 11 do not know where the original is now." Facing pi. the Cumberland sale of 1835 before Beckford obtained it. bl2 ("God becomes as we are that we may be as he is") is a quotation from Irenaeus about the phrase (see William . Europe (A, D, c] Blake's Writings [1978], 14). On the first flyleaf is a tran• Q: "with 2 pp. added from Blakeana ... 50 copies were sold scription of All Religions are One with a note: "This little by Messrs Quaritch I'Blakeana' was a vol of scraps[;] the book is copied from illustrated leaves in the possession of Macgeorge fragment is now in U.S.A." Part of this volume the Linnell family... W Muir"; Muir never made a facsimile of Blakeana was sold by Quaritch in 1886 to of All Religions are One. . William Muir, and the rest was sold by Quaritch to B. B. MacGeorge by 1906 and acquired by George C. Smith of ^Eternity. (Berkeley, California: Mayacamas Press, 1993) the United States by 1927.1(1. Broadside 35 x 28 inches. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (F) It is "He Who Binds to Himself a Joy." M: "About 20 copies have been made and sold[,] the Text [is] printed W Muir" (the text is in fact printed from mov• §Fellow Labourers in the Great Vintage. ([Buffalo, N.Y.: In• able type). . stitute of Further Studies, 1968) Broadside. Marriage of Heaven and Hell [second version] (F) M, "Forest Gate May 1920": "This is a careful copy of a §Ifthe Doors of Perception Were Cleansed. ([Mount Carmel, Connecticut:] Ives Street Press, 1983) 4 pp. A broadside. §The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Office Drawn from the 14 With it is a much-corrected "Rough proof" of Muir's "Proposal Lyric and Prophetic Work of William Blake (1727-1827) for the Prophetic Books and the Songs of Innocence and of Experience for Use of St. Mark's in-the-Bourie. (N.Y.: 1920s). by W Blake." " Part II (1789) of Erasmus Darwin's Botanic Garden was called " The Crookshank Collection also has a copy of the First Version of "The Loves of the Plants." lh Muir's facsimile of the Marriage made from copy A. Another copy of Muir's Europe is inscribed: "This is an uncolored 18 r Inscribed at the bottom in Muir's Brown ink: "The Background copy of Europe | It is of no special value I M Muir offers it for your should be quite smooth I The reds in the Serpent should be brighter." acceptance."

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 127 Spring 1997 Milton a Poem and the Final Illuminated Books, ed. Robert §Pu-lai-k'o shih hsuan: Chou Wen-ping i. (Taipei: Wu N. Essick & Joseph Viscomi (1993) . Chou, mia 62, 1973) 121 pp. In Chinese. Reviews 3 §Daniel Mark Epstein, "The Two William Blakes," New ^Selected Poems. Ed. P. H. Butter. (London, Melbourne, Criterion,XIII, No. 2 (October 1994), 10-22 (withViscomi's Toronto: Dent, 1982) B. §1986. C. §1988. D. §1989. E. 'Lon• Blake and the Idea of the Book [1993] and the other Blake don & Rutland, Vermont, 1991. Trust volumes). An "abridged edition," omitting the editor's name, was 4 Dennis M. Read, Blake, XXIX, 3 (Winter 1995-96), 91-92 published as *Songs of Innocence & Experience (London: ("there is much to praise, little to question, and less to criti• Phoenix, 1996). cize in this splendid volume" [92]). ^Selected Poems. (London, N.Y., Ringwood [Victoria, Aus• 5 Iain Sinclair, "Customising Biography," London Review of tralia], Toronto, Auckland: Penguin Books, 1996) Penguin Books, 22 February 1996, 16-19 (with Peter Ackroyd, Blake Popular Classics 12", x, 242. ISBN: 0-14-062219-5. [1995], and the Blake Trust reproductions of Jerusalem Lyric poems plus Tiriel and Thel apparently selected from [1991], Songs of Innocence and of Experience [1991], The Poetical Works, ed. John Sampson (1913) . Early Illuminated Books [1993], The Continental Prophecies [1995], and The Urizen Books [1995]) (there is no indica• ^Selected Works. Ed. David Stevens. (Cambridge: Cam• tion that Sinclair has looked at Milton ... and the Final Illu• minated Books—for a protest, see John Commander, be• bridge University Press, 1995) 144 pp. low). §*The Shepherd. ([Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: The Ori• 6 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies for 1993 ole Press, ?1932]) 4 pp. "with cordial greetings of the sea• (1996), 323 ("splendid"). son 1932-3." 7 S. L. M., Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 138c Annee (1996), 19 (with The Early Illuminated Books, ed. Morris Eaves, Rob• Songs of Innocence & [of] Experience. (London: Phoenix, ert N. Essick, & Joseph Viscomi [1993]) (the series is "une 1996) Square 16", [vi], 58 pp., ISBN: 1-85799-541-4. magnifique collection"). The text of the Songs and poems from the Notebook and §Pesni Nevinnosti opyta. [Tr. Sergeia Stepanova into Rus• the Pickering MS is apparently taken from Selected Poems sian, Kommentari Aleksandry Glebouskoi.] (Sankt- [ed. P. H. Butter] (1981) [which in turn is taken Peterburg: Severo-Zapad, 1993) 270 pp. from Poems & Prophecies, ed. Max Plowman (1927) ]. Poems of William Blake ed. Peter Ackroyd (1995) . [no publisher], 1977) 8 pp. In English and Portuguese. Review 1 "Alberto Manguel, "Genius of Blake revealed: Ackroyd The Urizen Books, ed. David Worrall (1995) . makes it clear we owe the poet a great many revelations Reviews about our senses," Globe and Mail [Toronto], 13 January 1 Iain Sinclair, "Customising Biography," London Review of 1996, p. C20 (with Peter Ackroyd, Blake [1995]). Books, 22 February 1996, 16-19 (with Peter Ackroyd, Blake Poesia completa. Pr6logo, Pablo Mane [Garzon]; [1995], and the Blake Trust reproductions of Jerusalem introducci6n, Mariano Vazquez Alonso; correci6n y [1991], Songs of Innocence and of Experience [1991], The revisi6n, E. Caracciolo Trejo (Barcelona: Ediciones 29, Early Illuminated Books [ 1993], The Continental Prophecies 1986), Rio nuevo, 2 vols., 452 pp. ISBN: 84-7175-186-0 [1995], and Milton [1993]) (there is no indication that . ... D. ^(Barcelona, 1995). Sinclair has looked at The Urizen Books—for a protest, see John Commander, below). Poetical Works, ed. John Sampson (1913) . 2 Barthelemy Jobert, Revue de VArt, No. 112 (1996), 78 (with The Penguin edition of Blake's Selected Poems (1996) was Joseph Viscomi, Blake mid the Idea of the Book [ 1993], and apparently selected from John Sampson's edition (1913). The Continental Prophecies, ed. IXW. Dorrbecker [1995]) (barely mentioned). §A Printing House m Hell. (Pittsburgh: The Laboratory Press, 1930) Students' Project (Carnegie Institute of Tech• §77u' Voice of the Ancient Bard. (London: Spoon Print Press, 1994) 4 leaves. nology Library Press) Specimen No. 103. Broadside 35 x Illustrated by Linda Ann Landers. 20.

^Proverbs of Hell. Translated to Scotch by William Henshaw. ^William Blake ()

Spring 1997 128 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly §Yongguk Nangnam sisa = Selected English Romantic Po• Edition ems—William Blake oe. Ed. Sisa Yongosa. (Seoul: Illustrations of The Book of Job Invented & Engraved by Wil• T'ukpyols: Sisa Yongosa, 1990) 247 pp. liam Blake 1825. (London: Frederick Hollyer, 1923) . *Zemirtes Koka [Under the Myrtle Tree]. [Tr. Olga Lisovska According to a prospectus (?1925), 225 copies were pro• into Latvian.] (Riga: Liesma, 1981) 203 pp. duced at £3.3.0. Tamara Zalite, "Viljams Bleiks" (5-14); O. Lisovska, "Komentari" (103-04). Cumberland, George, An Attempt to Describe Hafod (1796) Part II New Location: Princeton. Reproductions of Drawings and Paintings Edition An Attempt to Describe Hafod by George Cumberland. A Section A: Bicentenary Edition Edited and Introduced by Jennifer Illustrations of Individual Authors Macve & Andrew Sclater, Illustrated with Drawings from a sketchbook of Thomas Jones of Pencerrig introduced by Bible Donald Moore. (Aberystwyth: Ymddiriedolaeth Yr §Bhaktipeda, Swami. The Bible Illuminated: Illustrated by Hafod—Hafod Trust, 1996) 8°, ISBN: 0-9527941-0-1. William Blake and Francisco de Hollanda. Ed. Krzysztof This is a facsimile of the copy in the National Library of Cieszkowski. (New Vrindaban, W Va.: Palace Pub, 1994). Wales, with Jennifer Macve & Andrew Sclater, "Introduc• tion" (1-10, 15-16), and Donald Moore, "The artist Tho• Bunyan, John, Pilgrim's Progress mas Jones at Hafod" (11-14, 16). A section on "Hafod in Blake's Bunyan designs (see illus. 1-4) were offered by the 1795 and Blake's Map" (9-10) concludes that "One must... Frick Collection (N.Y.) (along with a design for Paradise keep an open mind" as to what part Blake had in the map. Regained) at §Sotheby's (London), 14 November 1996, Lot 243 (estimate £260,000-£340,000), bought in, and sold to Cumberland, George, Outlines from the Antients (1829) an Anonymous British collector. For behind the scenes de• New Locations: Brown, California (Santa Barbara), tails, see Essick, Marketplace, 1996. Edinburgh.

Gray, Thomas, Poems Cumberland, George, Thoughts on Outline (1796) Blake's 116 watercolors for Gray are reproduced in reduced New Locations: California State Library, Getty, Harvard, size and monochrome in Frank A. Vaughan, Again to the Iowa. Life of Eternity (1996). Dante, Blake's Illustrations of Dante (1838) Milton, John, Paradise Regained New Location: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. "The First Temptation" from the Paradise Regained series (see illus. 5) was sold by the Frick Collection to an Anony• Darwin, Erasmus, Botanic Garden (1791, 1791, 1795, mous British collector—see Bunyan (above). 1799,1806) C 1795 (Third Edition) New Location: Ushaw College Section B: (Durham). Collections and Selections Euler, Leonard, Elements of Algebra (1797) William Blake at the Huntington, ed. Robert N. Essick Blake was probably referring to his engraving (c. 6.8 x 11.0 (1994) . cm) for Euler's Elements of Algebra when he told the Revd. Review Dr. Trusler on 23 August 1799: "I had Twelve [Guineas] for 19 c the [small engraved] Head I sent you." 1 S. L. M., Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 138 Annee (1996), 19- 20 (the book is edited by 'Tun des principaux specialistes Flaxman, John, Compositions from ... Hesiod (1817) actuels de Blake" and produced "en couleurs de grande New Locations: Edinburgh, Newcastle Literary and Philo• qualite"). sophical Society, NYPL (2), Pennsylvania State, Rochester, Part III Syracuse. Commercial Book Engravings

Bible—Illustrations of The Book of Job (1826, 1874) 19 He could alternatively but less plausibly be referring to his en• New Location: Felsted School (Felsted, Essex) (reproduced graving of the head of John Brown (c. 11 x 13 cm) for Brown's Elements in the 1996 2 February-7 April (catalogue of the Fundacion of Medicine (1795) or to one of the heads of Catullus and Cornelius Nepos (each c. 10 x 17 cm) for Poems ofCaius Valerius Catullus (1795). "la Caixa" in Madrid, plates 64a-x). Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 129 Spring 1997 Flaxman, John, The Iliad of Homer (1805) nesota (2), National Library (Ottawa), Nelson Atkins Mu• New Locations: American Academy (Rome), Art Institute seum, Stanford, Yale. (Chicago), Brown, California (Berkeley; Davis), Califor• nia State Library, Cleveland Museum, Edinburgh, Florida Hayley, William, Triumphs of Temper (1807) State, Getty, Harvard, Metropolitan Museum, Michigan, THE I TRIUMPHS OF TEMPER [not THE I TRI• Minnesota (2), Pierpont Morgan, NYPL, New York Uni• UMPHS I OF I TEMPER, as in Blake Books) versity, Pennsylvania State, Rochester, Ushaw College New Locations: (1803) Brown, California (Berkeley), (Durham). Cornell, Emory (Theology), Iowa, LC, Michigan, Mills Col• lege, Minnesota, NYPL, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, State Gay, John, Fables (1793, [1811]) University of New York (Buffalo). A 1793 New locations: Newcastle Literary and Philosophi• (1807) Brown. cal Society, Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books); Ushaw College (Durham). Josephus, Flavius, Genuine and Complete Works ([?1785-90]) Hayley, William, Ballads (1805) New Locations: California (Berkeley), Cornell, Free Library Josephus, Flavius, The Whole Genuine and Complete Works, of Philadelphia, Iowa, Michigan, NYPL, Stanford. ed. Maynard & Kimpton (London: C. Cooke and ... Ire• land, n.d.). Hayley, William, Essay on Sculpture (1800) E (1792-93) New Location: Ushaw College (Durham). New Location: Brown, California (Berkeley), Minnesota, Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society, Pennsylva• Lavater, J. C, Aphorisms (1788, 1789, 1794) :o nia. The copy of Lavater's Aphorisms (1788) signed and anno• tated by'Thos: Butt I 23 Aug' 1789—" al• Hayley, William, The Life ... of William Cowper, Esq. most certainly has nothing to do with Blake's London pa• (1803-04) tron Thomas Butts; rather it belonged to a contemporary, New Locations: A (1803-04) Athenaeum (Philadelphia), perhaps of Bridgmouth, Shropshire, with a coincidentally Brown, California (Berkeley; Santa Barbara), Cornell, similar name, who annotated it (as Lavater directed) with Edinburgh, Iowa, LC, Michigan, Mills College, Minnesota, symbols indicating his likes and dislikes and with occasional National Gallery (Washington), National Library of Scot• notes such as that for Aphorism #539 concerning four land, NYPL (2), Northwestern, Pennsylvania State, South• women with virtues so rare that there will scarcely be found ern California, Stanford, State University of New York one in each quarter of the world: (Stony Brook). Such are The Marchioness of Stafford—Trentham B Second Edition (1804) Rochester. Stafford M" Berry of y Mill Stamford—Worcestershire Mrv Butt of Bridgmouth New Entry Shropshire Hayley, William, The Life ... of William Cowper Miss Butt (N.Y., 1803) The wood-engraving in William Hayley, The Life and Pos• Lavater, J. C, Essays on Physiognomy thumous Writings of William Cowper (New York: T 8c J. (1789-98; 1810; 1792 [i.e., 1817]) Swords, 1803), Vol. II, at p. 245, of "The Weather-house" 1810 New Locations: Edinburgh; National Library of Scot• and "Cowper's Tame Hares" (8.3 x 11 cm) signed Alexander land. "Anderson F[ec;'f]" was copied from the design signed Plate 4: The plate signed "Blake sculp" below and to the "Blake d 8c sc" in the edition of London: J. Johnson, 1803, right of the image also has"Blake Sc""very lightly scratched as R. N. Essick was the first to point out in Marketplace, immediately below, and on the same diagonal as, the line 1996, illus. 8. The plates engraved by Peter Maverick of defining the lower margin of the figure's neck" (as was first Cowper and of Cowper's mother (Vol. I, frontispiece and recorded in Essick, Marketplace, 1996). at p. 3) are copied from Blake's engravings after George The Quality of the Engravings Romney and D. Heins. According to the engraver Thomas Holloway, who super• vised the plates for Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, Hayley, William, The Life of George Romney (1809) New Locations: Art Institute (Chicago), Boston Museum, It was not long before TH found that in spite of all his Brown, California (Berkeley [2], Davis, Santa Barbara), Care 8c even expostulations with most of the Artists— Clarke Art Institute, Edinburgh, Emory, Florida, Folgcr, Getty, Kimbell Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Min• " Seen 15 May 1996 through the courtesy of Arthur Freeman and Ted Hoffman at Quaritch's (London).

Spring 1997 130 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly the work they brought home was distressingly inac• owner discovered belatedly that the copyright he had ac• curate—many plates were destroyd totally—and those quired was for the plates only and did not include the copy• which were the best executed were frequently so right of Dr. Henry Hunter's translation of Lavater. He may errone[o]us both in outline & expression that many therefore have decided that it was safest to conceal the date parts were obligd to be hammerd out & reproduced— and to pretend that this was the original edition. a piece of work this the most painful & the most mortyfying imaginable to TH— ... A great number of the plates were necessarily repaird Malkin, B. H., A Father's Memoirs of his Child (1806) in some instances twice in a few instances 3 times mak• New Location: Toronto Public Library (Osborne Collec• ing the plates equal to duplicates—which was the case tion of Early Children's Books). with the Venus de Medicis & others—without this at• tention the major part of the Impressions wou[l]d Mora, Jose Joaquin de, Meditaciones Poeticas (1826) have been weak & the Reputation of the work most New Location: Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid): R35836 and materially injured .... ER2444. The work executed by TH & others was in its Kind unique .... Without Vanity it is presumed that for Cor• Salzmann, C. G., Elements of Morality, tr. [Mary rectness as well as for execution it Stands unequalld-2' Wollstonecraft] (1791, 1792, 1799,1805,?1815) Payment for the Engravings A 1791 New Location: Toronto Public Library (Osborne In Holloway's list of "Expenses attending the Engravings of Collection of Early Children's Books). Lavater ... during the years 1787 to 1799" is "Blake [£]39.19.6," a somewhat moderate payment for three small Shakspeare, William, Plays (Boydell, 1802) plates and one large one. New Location: Ushaw College (Durham). Holloway's figures indicate the following prices for Lavater: Stedman, J. G., Narrative of a five years' expedition, Cost of Copper £ 88. 4.— against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796, 1806, Engraving Titles on Plates £ 26.15.— 1813) Total Cost of Engravings22 £2,558.17.— 1796 New Locations: Newcastle Literary and Philosophi• Cost of Printing and Hotpressing Plates £2,500.—.— cal Society, Stanford. Sale of the Copperplates The 537 copperplates for Lavater's Physiognomy were sold Wollstonecraft, Mary, Original Stories (1791, 1796) to John Stockdale, who published an edition in 1810. After A 1791 New Location: Toronto Public Library (Osborne Stockdale's death (1814), "the Remaining Stock of the Estate Collection of Early Children's Books). of the Late Mr. John Stockdale; consisting chiefly of Copper Plates, together with the Copyrights to the Works, to which Young, Edward, Night Thoughts (1797) Saunders on 3 January 1818, and the "Five hundred and New Locations: Library of Congress, *Muhlenberg College. thirty-seven [copperplates]—Lavater's Physiognomy, by Hunter, 4°, and Copyright" were sold for £210 (according Census of Colored Copies to the marked copy in the British Library; no buyer is listed Addenda for any of the lots). Copy G Silent Reprint of the Book History: ... (6) The Lutheran Church of America in 1986 The plates were subsequently printed on paper passed it, with the Florence Foerderer Tonner print collec• watermarked as late as 1817 but dated 1792 on the titlepages tion, to (7) The Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg Col• and bearing the names of the original publishers but not lege.23 that of the 1817 buyer of the copperplates. Perhaps the new Appendix 21 "Observations Submitted to the Consideration of Doct Hunter Books with Engravings Implausibly Attributed to Blake M' lohnson—two of the proprietors of Lavater—and the Execs of the late Mr [John] Murray" dated January 1802 in the archive of the pub• lisher John Murray, printed here (like the other Murray Archive pa• The Minor's Pocket Book (1813) pers) by permission of John Murray. Fuller details of the plate attributed to Blake in [Ann Tay• -This is the total given in Holloway's list of what he paid to indi• lor et al.], The Minor's Pocket Book, for the Youth of Both vidual engravers; the total in his list of what he paid year-by-year is £2,683.13.6 (this is mis-added by Holloway; it should be £2,628.13.6]. ;, Of the 37 engravers for Lavater named in Holloway's list, only 24 Ten plates from copy G are reproduced in color in Grant F. Scott, names are recorded on the engravings themselves (113 plates),"Ho//oM-fl>' "A Clash of Perspectives: Blake's Illustrations to the Poem Nigh t Tlwughts Dircxit" is on 156 of them, and 267 are anonymous. ..."Muhlenberg, V (1993), 10-16.

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 131 Sexes ([London:] Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1813) are 1990 recorded and the Blake connection rejected in Essick, Mar• Fitch, Donald. Blake Set to Music (1990) . ketplace, 1996. Review 1 G. E. Bentley, Jr., in Blake, XXX (1996), 25-31 ("Fitch's ^Plutarch's Lives: Abridged, Selected and Adapted for search for music set to Blake texts seems to have been won• Youth ... as an Introduction to Classic Reading for the derfully comprehensive" [27]; the Appendix here [28-31] Use of Schools by J[ohn] Faucit Saville. ([London:] lists addenda and corrigenda). Printed for R. Hill, 1823) 116 pp. It is claimed to have a "Frontispiece by William Blake." 1991 October Records of the William Blake Bicentenary Celebrations (1955- Part IV 59), MS 615 Department of Manuscripts and Special Col• Catalogues and Bibliographies lections, Hallward Library, University of Nottingham. ([Nottingham: University of Nottingham, October 1991]). 1954 A five-page printed catalogue of "minutes, correspon• * William Blake, The Romantic Poets, The Nineteenth Cen• dence, photographs of Blake's paintings, news cuttings, tury: The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc., Catalogue No. 41. agreements and financial material ... given to the Library (N.Y.: Brick Row Book Shop, 1954). in 1991 by Mr John Pyke, whose wife, then Miss D. The Blake lots are 1-70,668-70, including Blake's copy of Vaughan, assisted the committee in its work." Barry's Account of a Series of Pictures (1783) and nine works inscribed "Original Drawings by William Blake" [?now in 1991 the New York Public Library], "an interesting imposture." Robert N. Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book Illus• trations (1991) . 1959,1995 Review Robert F. Metzdorf. Tlie Tinker Library: A Bibliographical 1 §David Fuller, Durham University Journal, N.S. LIV (Janu• Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts collected by ary 1993), 115-19 (with Blake and His Bibles, ed. D. V. Chauncey Brewster Tinker. (New Haven: Yale University Erdman [1990]). Press, 1959) B. (1995). 1993 1 May-26 June 1960 §William Blake and His Circle. Hunterian Library, [Uni• Steer, Francis W. "William Blake." Pp. 6-14 of The versity of] Glasgow, [exhibition] 1 May-26 June 1993. Crookshank Collection in the West Sussex Record Office: A (Glasgow, 1993). Catalogue. Ed. Francis W Steer. (Chichester: West Sussex County Council, 1960) See also xii-xvi and passim. 1994 The collection by the Rev. Arthur Chichester Crookshank G. E. Bentley, Jr., with the assistance of Keiko Aoyama, Blake (1889-1958) focuses on Blake (No. 90-201), Hayley, and Studies in Japan (1994) . Chichester printing (viii). Reviews 1 Yoko Ima-Izumi, Blake, XXIX, 3 (Winter 1995-96), 82- 1976 2-5 March 88 (mostly a useful "necessary historical explanation" con• Catalogue [of the University of California (Santa Barbara) cerning the Japanese Blake scholars discussed in the "valu• Art Galleries exhibition for the Blake conference 2-5 March able introduction" to Blake Studies in Japan [82]). 1976]. 2 Noriko Kawasaki, Igirisu Romanha Kenkyu, Igirisu Fifteen mimeographed leaves with 99 entries (most of Romanha Gakkai: Essays in English Romanticism, Japan As• the original Blakes from the collection of R. N. Essick). The sociation of English Romanticism, No. 19-20 (1996), 178- catalogue was expanded (to 94 pp.), annotated, and illus• 80. In Japanese. (Highly esteemed.) trated in the catalogue of William Blake in the Art of His Tune (24 February-27 March 1976) . 1995 6-17 February The Genitals are Beauty, exhibition at The House of Will• 1989 iam Blake 6-17 February 1995 . Martin Butlin & Ted Gott. William Blake in the Collection Review of the National Callery of Victoria (Melbourne, 1989) . genitalia exhibition "tied together a roomful of genitals with Review some of the kitschy inheritance of St. Valentine's Day"). 1 §David B. Brown, "Blake in Australia," Print Quarterly, XII, 1 (March 1995), 87-88. 1996 2 February-7 April; 17 April-2 June William Blake: visiones de mundos eternos (1757-1827). [Ex-

132 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 hibition] 2 de febrero-7 de abril de 1996 [at the] Sala de R. A. Gilbert, [?1996]). Exposiciones de la Fundacion "la Caixa," Madrid. [Tr. An 11-page list of 330 Blake items for sale en bloc (with• Gabriel Sanchez Espinosa, Russell B. Sacks, & Elvira out price). Villena.] (Madrid: Fundacion "la Caixa," 1996) 4°, 262 pp., 180 plates; ISBN: 84-7664-537-6. B. §William Blake: visions PartV de mons eterns, 1757-1827: [Exhibition by Robin Hamlyn] Books Blake Owned 17d'abril-2 dejunyde 1996 Centre Cultural de la Fundacio "La Caixa." (Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fondacion" Barry, James, An Account of a Series of Pictures la Caixa," 1996) 226 pp. In Catalan. (1783) . Robin Hamlyn is the Comisaro or Curator of the exhibi• History: (1) It belonged to Samuel Palmer (see below), (2) tion. Whose son inscribed the sketch: "This is a portrait of Barry The book (A) consists of: by Blake A H Palmer"; (3) Acquired by H. Buxton Forman, 1 Luis Monreal (Director General, Fundacion "la Caixa"), who added his bookplate and a note about it and sold it "Presentation" (11), "Foreword" (217): A prime reason for posthumously at Anderson Galleries, 15 March 1920, Lot organizing the Blake exhibition is "the fact that his work is 36 [for $205]; (4) Acquired by G. C. Smith, Jr., described not present in any Spanish museum or collection." in his anonymous catalogue (1927) , and sold 2 Robin Hamlyn, "William Blake (1757-1827)" (12-29 in posthumously at Parke-Bernet, 2 November 1938 , Lot 94 [for $250]; (5) Sold anonymously at Parke ish audience. Bernet Galleries, 18 February 1942, #68 ("ORIGINAL 3 Francisco Calvo Serraller, "Blake y Goya: convergencias y WRAPPERS"); (6) Offered in Brick Row Book Shop Cata• divergencias entre dos mundos" (31-42); "Blake and Goya: logue 41 (1954), Lot *1, for $200; (7) Bought from Jacob Convergence and Divergence between Two Worlds" (229- Zeitlin of Los Angeles in 1962 by (8) Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 35): Concerns "Flaxman's possible influence on Goya" who described it in his catalogue (1964) , No. (231), with an aside on Fuseli and a paragraph on Blake. 721, and sold it posthumously with the rest of his type- 4 Estella de Diego, "La invention de William Blake" (43- printed books in 1986 to (9) Cambridge University Library. 52); "The Invention of William Blake" (237-42): "Blake is pervaded by life," and "it is hard to tell just how much the Appendix Surrealists actually read of Blake" (240, 237). Books Owned by the Wrong William Blake 5 *[Adela Moran & Montserrat Gomez], "Catalogo" (53- 210, with descriptions only of the 180 color plates repro• Johnson, Samuel duced, which include Innocence [X], Europe [B], and the THE | LIVES | OF THE MOST EMINENT | ENGLISH Job engravings [1826]); "Catalogue" (243-59 in English of POETS; | WITH I CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS I ON THEIRI all 188 items exhibited). WORKS. I By SAMUEL JOHNSON. I IN FOUR VOLUMES.I 6 "Bibliografia" (211-13); "Literature" (261-62). |- | VOLUME I[-IV]. | -1 LONDON: | PRINTED FOR C. Review BATHURST, J. BUCKLAND, W STRAHAN, J. RIVING-I 1 *Shantigarbha. "Visions of Eternity: Blake in Madrid: Ex• TON AND SONS, T. DAVIES, T. PAYNE, L. DAVIS, W hibition at Fundacion 'la Caixa', Madrid, February-April OWEN, B. WHITE, | S. CROWDER, T. CASLON, T. 1996," Urthona, No. 6 (1996), 83 ("an important event"). LONGMAN, B. LAW, C. DILLY, | J. DODSLEY, J. WILKIE, J. ROBSON, J. JOHNSON, T. LOWNDES, | G. ROBINSON, 1996 9 July-6 October T. CADELL, J. NICHOLS, E. NEWBERY, I T. EVANS, P. §William Blake's Illustrations to Youngs Night Thoughts. ELMSLY, J. RIDLEY, R. BALDWIN, G. NICOL, I LEIGH [Exhibition at the] Tate Gallery, 9 July-6 October 1996. AND SOTHEBY, J. BEW, N. CONANT, W NICOLL,l J. (London: Tate Gallery, 1996) 8 pp. MURRAY, S. HAYES, W FOX, AND J. ROWEN. | M DCC LXXXI [1781]. 1996 4-5 December A copy with the black stamp in each volume of ... Periodicals, Manuscripts & Ephemera, etc. [auction sale "W:BLAKE" and with paper labels bordered by hand in red by Foncie] Mealy. (Dublin, 1996). ink on each front paste-down with a brown ink (shelf-list?) The Blakes included Lots 263-64,297,302,303,331,385, number "N° 40[-43]." to be offered in Marlborough Rare 564-66, 579-88, 635,637, 729, 797,1247. Perhaps the most Books Catalogue 165 (1996). No such stamp or number is remarkable entry was that for Bewick's Virgil (1821) , Vol. I (?A11 published), estimate £150-£200 [sold a system or the size of library it implies characteristic of for £3,000]. him. Probably the books belonged to one of the many con• temporaries of the poet who bore his name. 1996? William Blake: [Sale catalogue of] R. A. Gilbert. (Bristol:

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 133 Part VI 1996, p. 10 ("Peter Ackroyd makes Blake live for the mod• Criticism, Biography, and Scholarly Studies ern reader"). 16 * Kennedy Fraser, "Piper Pipe that Song Again: Peter Ackroyd, Peter, Blake (1995) . Ackroyd finds a William Blake for our time," New Yorker, An excerpt from chapter 5 was reprinted in Lonsdale, II, 27 May 1996, pp. 126-31 ("This is a book with bounce and No. 1 (January 1996), 12-13. push" about a man whose "work just glows, somehow"). For his account of writing the book, see Journal of the 17 §Colin Steel, Australian Book Collector (April 1996) (with Blake Society (1996), 3-4. Viscomi's Blake and the Idea of the Book [1993]). Reviews 18 Anon., Lonsdale, II, No. ii (April 1996), 11-[15] (review 8 Jonathan Bate, "William Blake in the new Jerusalem: of chapters 8-14) ("That which made Blake a truly gifted Jonathan Bate admires Peter Ackroyd's biography of the man was his abilities and talents as a tradesman" [12]). great London visionary," Sunday Telegraph, 3 September 19 Tim Heath, Journal of the Blake Society (1996), pp. 77- 1995, p. 9 ("a biography of Blake which is lucid and mea• 79 (Ackroyd "builds up a life, slowly, with care and with sured, but also intuitive and empathetic. The scholarship detail"). is impeccable, yet at the same time the novelist has got un• 20 *Dharmachari Ananda, "A Grain of Sand in Lambeth," der his man's skin"). Urthona, No. 5 [1996], 43-46 (it is "a rich and closely ob• 9 §John Bemrose, "Burning bright," Macleans, 6 Novem• served biography" with a sharp focus on "tiny but telling ber 1995. B. Reprinted in Lonsdale, II, No. 1 (January 1996), detail," but "Ackroyd has a tendency to be dogmatic," and 7-8 ("Ackroyd has given the artist a more palpable, detailed "the whole man manages to elude us"). presence than he has enjoyed at any time since his death"). 10 Anon. "Anti-Enlightenment visionary," Economist Re• * Ackroyd, Peter. "Cockney Visionaries." Independent [Lon• view, 11 November 1995, pp. 4-5 (Ackroyd "sympathises don] 18 December 1993, p. 27 . deeply with Blake's struggles" and takes Blake's "visions as "I want... to describe those London luminaries and Cock• seriously and soberly as he did," but he is "badly served by neys [chiefly "that Cockney visionary William Blake," the book's designer" and editor for tolerating muddy plates Dickens and J. M. W. Turner] who in their art have ex• and prolix "displays of erudition"). pressed the true nature and spirit of London. "Cockney" 11 * Alberto Manguel, "Genius of Blake revealed: Ackroyd here appears to mean someone who epitomizes London. makes it clear we owe the poet a great many revelations about our senses," Globe and Mail, [Toronto] 13 January * Ackroyd, Peter. "To the rescue of a cockney prophet: Pe• 1996, p. C20 (with Poems of William Blake ed. Peter Ackroyd ter Ackroyd tells Giles Coren why William Blake is unjustly [1995]). neglected." Times, 11 September 1995, p. 17. 12 Iain Sinclair, "Customising Biography," London Review "Blake is a much better poet than people think"; "There of Books, 22 February 1996, pp. 16-19 (with the Blake Trust has never been a substantial biography of Blake"; "in fic• reproductions of Jerusalem [1991], Songs of Innocence and tion you have to tell the truth. In biography you can make of Experience [1991], The Early Illuminated Books [1993], things up." The Continental Prophecies [1995], Milton [ 1993], and The Urizen Books [1995]) (an enormous, and enormously self- Adams, Hazard. "Jerusalem's Didactic and Mimetic-Nar• indulgent, meander through what he thinks are current in• rative Experiment: In Happy Memory of Northrop Frye." tellectual avant-garde matters, commenting incidentally Studies in Romanticism, XXXII (1993), 627-54. that Ackroyd's "Blake is decently crafted fiction over• "In Jerusalem Blake sets contraries to the task of building whelmed by an excess of tyrannical facts" "with perhaps a an order in disorder and disorder in order at the same little too much fondness for local colour" [18]). time—and in the same place"—"an introduction to a read• 13 Paul Cantor, "William Blake, Capitalist," Weekly Stan• ing" (627), with a survey of Jerusalem criticism (651-54). dard, 22 April 1996, pp. 29-32 (Ackroyd's "new biography of Blake" stresses insufficiently that Blake shows "the dogged §Ahlstrom, Chrispin. "Poet-Profet och konstnar." spirit of the English small businessman"but that Blake "con- Gotcborgs-Posten, 27 April 1974. In Swedish. stantly misreads the market; he didn't ignore or abjure it" Allison, John. "Charioteer of fire: A huge choral setting of [31,30]). William Blake comes to London on Sunday: A three-hour 14 George Gurley (Kansas City Star), "Illuminating the vi• epic previewed." limes, 15 November 1996, p. 36. sions of William Blake," Chicago Tribune, 23 April 1996, Chiefly an interview with William Bolcom about a per• Section 2, p. 3 (Ackroyd's "stylish writing [is] lyrical and formance on 17 November 1996 at South Bank of his set• illuminating without being intrusive"—and Gurley has dis• ting of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. covered that Blake "could swear in nine languages"). 15 Michael Dirda, International Herald Tribune, 21 May Annwn, David, Hear the Voice of the Bard\ (1995) .

134 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 Review Milton? Showakaguin Tankidaigaku Kiyo: Bulletin of 1 Sarah Joyce, Journal of the Blake Society (1996), 65-67 Showagakuin Junior College, No. 29 (1992). In Japanese. (it is a "perceptive reading" of the "Introduction" to Experience). * Anzai, Keiko. "Yokuatsu no Katachi—William Blake New• ton no Shinborizumu: A Depraved Form—The Symbol• Anon. "Expert on poet William Blake to lecture group." ism of Blake's Newton." Ningen Bunka Kenkyu Nenpo, Sunday Chronicle [Muskegon, Michigan], 18 September Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku, Ningen Bunka Kenkyuka: Bul• 1996. letin of the Doctoral Research Course in Human Culture Lecture by G. E. Bentley, Jr., on "The Artist and the [Ochanomizu Women's University], No. 14 (1990), 101- Prophet: The Art of William Blake," related to the minor 14. In Japanese. Blake collection at the Muskegon Museum of Art. Aoyama, Keiko. "Imi wa dokokara kuruno ka—Blake no Anon. "Felpham Has a Stamp Bible, Tobacco, and a Poet's Urizen [Daiichi] no Sho ni okeru Imi-seisei no Purosesu: Cottage." Southern Weekly News, 20 December 1952, p. 15. How Are the Meanings Generated?—William Blake's Po• Partly about Blake's cottage at Felpham. litical Stance in the 1790's and The [First] Book of Urizen!' Igirisu Romanha Kenkyu, Igirisu Romanha Gakkai: Essays *Anon. "A Note on Four Water-Colours by William Blake." in English Romanticism, Japan Association of English Ro• International Studio, LXXIV, No. 294 (September 1921), manticism, No. 19-20 (1996), 41-48. In Japanese. xxxvii. A comment, presumably by the editor, Guy C. Eglinton, §Arakawa, Mitsuo. "Bungaku no naka no Toshi—William on reproductions (on the cover and xxxvii, xxxviii, xl) Blake to William Wordsworth no Baai [Cities in Litera• "from a small but very choice exhibition recently on view ture—In the Cases of William Blake and William at the Metropolitan Museum" [which is otherwise un• Wordsworth]." Tohoku Gakuin Daigaku Ronshu, Ningen known]. Gengo, Joho, Tohoku Gakuin Daigaku Gakujutsu Kenkyukai: The Tohoku Gakuin University Review, Human, Anon. "Scene of a fairy funeral." Evening Argus, 28 Octo• Linguistics, and Information Sciences, The Research Asso• ber 1962. ciation, Tohoku Gakuin University, No. 110 (1995), 73-91. Chiefly a photograph of Blake's Cottage at Felpham. In Japanese.

Anzai, Keiko. "Albion no Musumetachi no Genso ni okeru Baldwin, Michael. "Between Agues and the Muse: Blake Hana Imejari no Shoso: Aspects of Flower Imagery in The would recognize the old place ..." Guardian, 10 August Visions of the Daughters of Albion." Showagakuin 1991. Tankidaigaku Kiyo: Bulletin of Showagakuin Junior College, About Blake's cottage at Felpham. No. 28 (1991), 83-95. In Japanese. Barry, Kevin. "Autonomous song: [Michel-Paul Guy de] §Anzai, Keiko. "Blake, Lambeth Shohon ni okeru 'Namida' Chabanon and Blake." Pp. 65-78 of chapter 2: "William to 'Kozui': Tears and Deluge in Blake's Lambeth Books." Blake and William Cowper" (56-93, 198-203) of his Lan• Showakaguin Tankidaigaku Kiyo: Bulletin of Showagakuin guage, music, and the sign: A study in aesthetics, poetics Junior College, No. 22 (1990). In Japanese. and poetic practice from Collins to Coleridge. (Cambridge, N.Y., New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge Uni• Anzai, Keiko. "Blake 'Yameru Bara' ni okeru Jenda no Imi: versity Press, 1987). The Gender of the Worm in Blake's'The Sick Rose!" Ningen A survey of "the most important ideas about music in Bunka Kenkyu Nenpo, Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku, Ningen the later poetry of the eighteenth century" (56). Bunka Kenkyuka: Bulletin of the Doctoral Research Course in Human Culture [Ochanomizu Women's University], No. *Beer, John. "Prophetic Affluence in the 1790s." Chapter 2 15 (1991), 95-106. In Japanese. (23-48, 257-62 of his Romantic Influences Contemporary- Victorian-Modern. (N.Y.: St Martin's Press, 1993). § Anzai, Keiko. "The Four Zoas ni okeru Enion to Jumoku Concerns especially Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. no Imejari: Symbolic Trees and Enion in Blake's The Four Blake is also dealt with in "Flowings" (chapter 1, 1-22,156- Zoas" Showakaguin Tankidaigaku Kiyo: Bulletin of 57). Showagakuin Junior College, No. 31 (1994). In Japanese. Behrendt, Stephen C, Reading William Blake (1992) . Leutha Zo: Ambivalence of Submission: Leutha in Blake's Review 1 §James O. Allsup, Wordsworth Circle, XXV (1994), 219-

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 135 21 ("a golden string that leads us in at the gate of a cleansed Review perception of not only literature but criticism"). 1 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for 1993 (1996), 328 ("well-documented, comprehensively re• *Bentley, G. E., Ir. "The Journeyman and the Genius: James searched"). Parker and His Partner William Blake With a List of Parker's Engravings." Studies in Bibliography, XLIX (1996), 208-31 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly plus 6 plates. XXVII, Number 2 (Fall 1993) "The career of James Parker demonstrates what that of 1 Robert N. Essick, "Blake's 1812 Exhibition." Pp. 36-42. William Blake might have been like had he been a steady, Review reliable workman like Parker—and had he not been a ge• 11[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1993 (1994), nius" (220). 67 (a carping summary).

Bentley, G. E., Jr. "Rex v. Blake: Sussex Attitudes toward the Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Military and Blake's Trial for Sedition in 1804." Hunting• Volume XXVII, Number 3 (Winter 1993-94) ton Library Quarterly, LVI (1993), 83-89 . 2 Paula R. Feldman, "Felicia Hemans and the Mythologiz- Reviews ing of Blake's Death." Pp. 69-72. 1 R[obert]. E G[leckner], Romantic Movement for 1993 Review (1994) ("Interesting additions to what we know already 11[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1994 (1995), (largely from Bentley)"). 43-44 (a summary). 2 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies for 1993 3 Warren Stevenson, "The Image of Canada in Blake's (1996), 324 ("written fascinatingly"). America a Prophecy." Pp. 72-74. Review "Bindman, David. "Blake, William." Vol. IV, pp. 116-23 of 11[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1994 (1995), The Dictionary of Art. Ed. Janet Turner. (N.Y.: Grove's Dic• 45 ("Another argument from coincidence"). tionaries; London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1996). A good standard account. Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Volume XXVIII, Number 2 (Fall 1994) Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 2 Chris Orr, "The Life of W. Blake." Pp. 35-38. Volume XXVI, Number 2 (Fall 1992) Review 1 Marsha Keith Schuchard. "The Secret Masonic History 11[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1994(1995), of Blake's Swedenborg Society." Pp. 40-51. 44 ("The six scenes reproduced are lively, allusive, and Review Hogarthian"). 1 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for 1 Joseph Viscomi, "A Breach in a City the Morning after the 1993 (1996), 326 (it manifests "thorough researching"). Battle: Lost or Found?" Pp. 44-61. Review Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 11[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1994(1995), Volume XXVI, Number 4 (Spring 1993) 46 ("highly detailed," "enlightened" and "instructive"). 1 John Vice, "William Blake—A Man Without Marx." Pp. 162-65. Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Review Volume XXVIII, Number 2 (Fall 1994) 11[rene] H.Qhayes], Romantic Movement for 1993 (1994), 6 David Simpson, "Which Newton for the British Library?" 72 (a summary). Pp. 77-78. Review Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 1 l[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1994 (1995), Volume XXVII, Number 1 (Summer 1993): 45 (a summary). 1 G. E. Bentley, Jr. "'Blake ... Had No Quaritch': The Sale of William Muir's Blake Facsimiles." Pp. 4-13. Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Review Volume XXVIII (1994-95) 1 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for 1 Aileen Ward, "Who Was Robert Blake?" Pp. 84-89. 1993 (1996), 328 ("well-documented, comprehensively re• Review searched"). 11[rene] H.C[hayes],Ko7n

136 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 11 Keri Davies. Review of "'The Genitals are Beauty.' Exhi• Volume XXIX, Number 3 (Winter 1995/96 [4 April 1996]) bition of 'An Interior of William Blake.' House of William 1 Martin Butlin. "A Rare Group of Early Twentieth-Cen• Blake, London. July-August, 1994."24 Pp. 102-03. (The geni• tury Watercolors by a Follower of William Blake." Pp. 76- talia exhibition "tied together a roomful of genitals with 77. (Henry John Stock [1853-1930] was "befriended by W.J. some of the kitschy inheritance of St. Valentine's Day.") Linton," moved to Felpham, and painted from Revelation "Blakean subjects in totally un-Blakean style") Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 2 Max Browne. "A Blake Source for von Hoist." Pp. 78-81. Volume XXIX, No. 4 (Spring [July] 1996) (Theodor von Hoist [1810-44] copied figures from Jerusa• 1 * Robert N. Essick. "Blake in the Marketplace, 1995, In• lem [B?] pi. 1, 19,21,23.) cluding a Survey of Blakes in Private Ownership." Pp. 108- Reviews 30. (A masterfully detailed catalogue, including as an "Ap• 3 Yoko Ima-Izumi. Review of G. E. Bentley, Jr. [with Keiko pendix: New Information on Blake's Engravings" [130].) Aoyama], Blake Studies in Japan (\994), un• 2 *G. E. Bentley, Jr., With the Assistance of Keiko Aoyama der CataloguesX Pp. 82-88. (Mostly a useful "necessary his• for Japanese Publications. "William Blake and His Circle: torical explanation" concerning the Japanese Blake schol• A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 1995." Pp. ars discussed in the "valuable introduction" to Blake Stud• 131-68. ies in Japan [82].) Newsletter25 4 Michael Ferber. Review of The Early Illuminated Books, 3 Anon. "William Blake Collection Moves Home." P. 168. ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, & Joseph Viscomi (The Preston Blake Collection has been moved from a (1993). Pp. 88-90. ("An altogether splendid volume," with branch of the Westminster Public Library [at 35 St Martin's "the most lucid and succinct summary of Blake's methods Street] to the City of Westminster Archives Centre [at 20 St of book production that I have seen" [88].) Anne Street].) 5 Dennis M. Read. Review of Milton a Poem and the Final 4 Anon. "Blakean Art News: Milton." {Milton [i.e., "The Illuminated Books, ed. Robert N. Essick & Joseph Viscomi Bard's Song"] will be performed twice, apparently by (1993). Pp. 91-92. ("There is much to praise, little to ques• Golgonooza Productions, in Boulder, Colorado, in Novem• tion, and less to criticize in this splendid volume" [92].) ber 1996, with "a virtual universe based on Blake's art• 6 Harriet Linkin. Review of Molly Anne Rothenberg, Re• work.") thinking Blake's Textuality (1993). Pp. 92-94. (A "few im• portant close readings beautifully ground Rothenberg's as• Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly tute but sometimes theory-thick discussion of philosophi• Volume XXX, Number 1 (Summer [September] 1996) cal and religious contemporary contexts to compensate for 1 Joseph Viscomi. "A 'Green House' for Butts? New Infor• whatever imperfections the book contains" [94].) mation on Thomas Butts, His Residences, and Family." Pp. 7 Andrew Lincoln. Review of George Anthony Rosso, Jr., 4-21. (An enormous mass of valuable detail about the fam• Blake's Prophetic Workshop (1993). Pp. 95-96. ("Some of the ily and residences of Thomas Butts's family suggests that assumptions and methods involved seem questionable" his son Thomas Butts [Jr.] may not have been the anony• [95].) mous vendor of the Blakes in the Sotheby sales of 26-27 8 Janet Warner. Review of Steven Vine, Blake's Poetry: Spec• March and 26 June 1852 [20].) tral Visions (1993). P. 96. ("Often the critic is undermined 2 Denise Vultee. "Apollonian Elephant?" P. 22. (The by the energy and mystery of his poet," but "the approach "Apollonian elephant," as E.G. Marsh in 1802 identifies that seemed confusing in The Four Zoas works brilliantly Blake's engraving for Hayley's Elephant Ballad, derives not in Vine's concise discussions of Milton and Jerusalem!') from the elephant-free Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes 9 Andrew Lincoln. Review of the production of Blake's In• referred to in the same letter but from Philostratus' The nocence and Experience by Elliot Hayes [1983 ], Life of Apollonius ofTyana, a neo-Pythagorean philosopher with Michael Loughnan as William Blake. Directed by of the first century A.D.) Valerie Doulton; designed by Gary Thorne; music for songs 3 David Caplan. "Blake in Boca Raton." P. 22. (A poem.) by Loreena McKennitt. At the Tristran Bates Theatre, Tower Reviews Street, London, 12-18 June 1995. P. 97. ("The limits of the 4 Michael Gamer, Paul Wayne Rodney, & Nanora Sweet. play, and Valerie Doulton's expert handling of them, make Review of David Simpson, Romanticism, Nationalism, and for a portrait that is definite, determinate, and impossible the Revolt against Theory (1993). Pp. 23-25. (It is "an em- to forget.") 10 Stephen Cox. Review of Jeanne Moskal, Blake, Ethics, N and Forgiveness (1994). Pp. 97-102. ("A typical academic The title here is confused. The exhibition of "An Interior for [sic] William Blake" was on 1-14 August 1994; that of "The book" whose "problems are not all stylistic and organiza• Genitals are Beauty" (reviewed here) was on 6-17 Feb• tional," for "Some of Moskals' intellectual positions have ruary 1995, as the review makes clear. not been thought through carefully enough" [97, 102].) :5 Omitting items irrelevant to William Blake.

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 137 bodiment of the romantic 'methods' of Germaine de Stael Review and Samuel Taylor Coleridge" [23].) 1 Robert Davreu, Romantisme, No. 83 (1994), 115-16 5 G. E. Bentley, Jr. Review of Donald Fitch, Blake Set to Mu• ("lumineuse et convaicante"). sic (1990). Pp. 25-31. ("Fitch's search for music set to Blake Chayes, Irene H. "Picture and Page, Reader and Viewer in texts seems to have been wonderfully comprehensive" [27]; Blake's Night Thoughts Illustrations." Studies in Romanti• the Appendix here [28-31] lists addenda and corrigenda.) cism, XXX (1991), 439-71 .

§Bowra, Cecil Maurice. "On Blake's 'The Tiger [sic]*" Vol. Review II, p. 84, of Readings for Liberal Education. Ed. Louis Glenn 1 D. V. E[rdman], Romantic Movement for 1993 (1994), 64- Locke, William Merriam Gibson, & George Warren Arms. 65 ("A valuable program from which all Blakeists can ben• (Rinehart, 1948) B. Revised edition. (1952). efit").

^Bradford, Richard. "Blake and the Arbitrary Use of Lan• Clark, Steve, 8c David Worrall, ed. Historicizing Blake (1994) guage." In his A Literary History of English Poetry. (London . 8c N.Y.: Routledge, 1993). 7 Andrew Lincoln. "Blake and the 'Reasoning Historian.'" Pp. 73-85. Brammer, Marsanne Carolee. "Poetics of the Incommen• Material from it is incorporated in revised form in his surable: Classical Scientific Epistemology and Mystical Dis• Spiritual History: A Reading of William Blake's Vala or The course in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Lit• Four Zoas (1995). erature." DAI, LVI (1995), 353A. California (San Diego) Review Ph.D. 1 §Jason Whittaker, BARS Bulletin and Review, No. 9 (No• The thesis "focuses on the ways in which the illuminated vember 1995), 19. writings of William Blake and James Joyce's Ulysses develop a poetics of the incommensurable"; Blake is in chapters 3- Clarke, Lorraine, Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Spectre of Dia• 4. lectic (1991) . Reviews Brown, Marshall. "Stealing a Self: Schiller and Blake." Pp. 1 §Michael Fischer, Wordsworth Circle, XXIV (1993), 230- 104-12 of chapter 5 (81-112), "The Economy of Sensibil• 32. ity," in his Preromanticism. (Stanford: Stanford University 2 Francois Piquet, Etudes Anglaises, XLVII (1994), 478-79 Press, 1991). (a work of "Erudition precise").

Bull, Malcolm. "Blake and Watts in Songs of Experience." Commander, John. "Dereliction." London Review of Books, N&Q, CCXLI [N.S., XLIII] (1996), 27-29. 21 March 1996, p. 5. In "I saw a chapel all of gold" and "The Garden of Love," He deplores the absence of "critical comment on, or re• Blake is alleged to be "clearly rewriting Watts," "The Church sponse to" the scholarship in the Blake Trust volumes which the Garden of Christ." Iain Sinclair was purporting to review.

Bungey, Margurite. "Well-loved family hymns: No. 6: §Courthope, William John. "Democracy and Lyric Poetry, Jerusalem by William Blake (1757-1827)." This England, Scottish and English." Vol. VI, 52-83 of his A History of En• XVIII, No. 1 (Spring 1985), 26-29. glish Poetry. (London 8c N.Y.: Macmillan, 1895-1910). B. With photographs of Blake's cottage and the Fox Inn at §(London: Macmillan 8c Co., 1922-1925) C. §(N.Y.: Russell Felpham. 8c Russell, 1962). Said to concern Blake. Butt, William. "Robert Gourlay's Millennial Vision: A Reader's Guide." Journal of Canadian Studies: Revue d'dtudes Cox, Stephen, Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake's canadiennes, XXIV (1989), 66-80. Thought (1992) . It is about the vague "correspondence between Gourlay's Review writing and that of Blake" (68), though Gourlay (d. 1863), 2 Kathleen Lundeen. European RomanticReview,V (1994), a Canadian reformer, never mentions Blake. 127-31 ("challenging, controversial" [131]).

§Castoren, Gunnar. "William Blake." Svenska Dagbladet, 11, Cranston, Maurice. The Romantic Movement. (Oxford 8c 14 January 1909. In Swedish. Cambridge [U.S.A.]: Blackwells, 1994). Pp. 52-56.

*Chauvin, Daniele. L'CEuvre de William Blake (1992) . the Self-Conscious Lyricism in William Blake." ELH, LXI (1994), 619-33 .

138 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 Review William," Vol.IV, pp. 84-88 of Allgemeines Lexicon der 1 I[rene] H. C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1994 Bildender Ktinstler, ed. Ulrich Thieme 8c Felix Becker (1910) (1995), 43 (a summary). . Curran, Stuart, & Joseph A. Wittreich, Jr., ed., Blake's Sub• lime Allegory (1973) . Eaves, Morris, The Counter-Arts Conspiracy (1992) . Luvah and Vala." B. "Slightly abbreviated" in William Blake, Reviews ed. David Punter (1996), 36-53. 1 §Tim Cloudsley, History of European Ideas, XVIII (1994), 1042-44. Davie, Donald. "Conclusion." Pp. 155-58 of his The Eigh• 2 §Mark Hallett, Art History, XVIII (1995), 608-09. teenth-Century Hymn in England. (Cambridge: Cambridge 3 Brian Wilkie, Yearbook of English Studies, XXV (1995), University Press, 1993). 299-300 (it shows "considerable erudition" and "great Blake's "point of view [was] unChristian"and his"Jerusa- imaginative power"). lem" from Milton is not a hymn, partly because it "has no 4 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for argument at all." 1993 (1996), 326 ("an original and very significant contri• bution"). Davies, J. M. Q. Blake's Milton Designs (1993) . Eaves, Morris, 8c Michael Fischer, ed., Romanticism and Reviews Contemporary Criticism (1986) . 11[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1993 (1994), W J. T. Mitchell. "Visible Language: Blake's Wond'rous 65-66 (a carping summary). Art of Writing." B. Reprinted without the section on callig• 2 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for raphy, "Human Letters," in William Blake, ed. David Punter 1993 (1996), 325 ("learned readings of Blake's Milton de• (1996), pp. 123-48. signs"). Eliot, T. S. "Mad Naked Blake." (1920) . Davreu, Robert. "Londres, Blake et Wordsworth: genese Translated into Chinese by Yi Yang with her Tianzhen yu poetique d'une vision moderne de la ville." Romantisme, jingyan zhige [Songs of Innocence and of Experience] (1988). No. 83 (1994), 38-48. See especially "W Blake: Londres, ville maudite, promesse *Endo, Toru. "Blake ni okeru Ryutai Imegi—18-seiki de cite" sainte" (40-42). Kagaku Shiso to Blake: Images of Liquid in Blake's Poetry [—Science in the 18th Century and Blake]." Igirisu Day, Aidan. Romanticism. (London & N.Y.: Routledge, Romanha Kenkyu, Igirisu Romanha Gakkai: Essays in En• 1996) The New Critical Idiom. glish Romanticism, Japan Association of English Romanti• Blake is particularly on pp. 17-26 in a section called "En• cism, No. 19-20 (1996), 49-58. In Japanese. lightenment or Romantic." De Luca, V. A., Words of Eternity (1991) . *Engetsu, Katsuhiro. "Meikyu no Blake—Mil/ton Zen [1]2 Review kan o yomu: Blake in the Labyrinth—Reading Mil/ton in 9 Jonathan Lamb, Huntington Library Quarterly, LVI (1993), [1]2 Books." Doshisha Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku Kenkyu: 191-207. Doshisha Studies in English, the Literary Association, Doshisha University, No. 65 (1995), 19-50. In Japanese, with Den Otter, A. G. "True, Right, and Good: Blake's Argument an English abstract on 51-52. for Vision in Jerusalem." Philological Quarterly, LXXII (1993), 73-96 . Erdman, David V, ed., Blake and His Bibles (1990) Catherine Blake (the poet's wife [353]) and Robert Blake Forms Dramatic, (1970) . (his brother [358]). George Quasha. "Ore as a Fiery Paradigm of Poetic Tor• It is a kind of replacement for A. G. B. Russell, "Blake, sion." B. ".Reproduced in a slightly abbreviated form" in William Blake, ed. David Punter (1996), 16-35.

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 139 §Ernst, C. "The Vocation of Nature." Pp. 59-73 of The Lim• Literary Journal, XVIII, No. 2 (November 1991), 27-45 its of Human Nature: Essays Based on a Course of Lectures . Given at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Ed. Review Jonathan Benthall. (London: Dutton, 1974). 1 R. F. G[leckner], Romantic Movement for 1993 (1994), 67 Said to concern Blake. (the claim that the W—M B—E is William Blake evokes a succinct "Oh my!"). Esterhammer, Angela. "The Constitution of Blake's Inno• *Grundy, Thomas E. "An Eye of gifts & graces: A Reading cence and Experience." English Studies in Canada, X (1993), of Blake's The Book of ThelV Nagoya Daigaku Bungakubu 151-60. Kenkyu Ronshu, Bungaku 41: The Journal of the Faculty of Review Letters, Nagoya University, Literature 42, No. 124 (1996), 1 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for 49-78. 1993 (1996), 328 (it shows "elegant clarity"). Gurney, Stephen. "William Blake." Chapter 2 (26-41, 318) Fausset, Hugh I'anson. "William Blake." Chapter 6 (152- of his British Poets of the Nineteenth Century. (N.Y: Twayne 64) of his Studies in Idealism. (London & N.Y., 1923) Publishers; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; N.Y, Ox• B. §(Port Washington [N.Y.], Kennikat, 1965). ford, Singapore, Sydney: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993). §Freeman, Kathryn S. Blake's Nostos: Fragmentation and A general account. Non-Dualism in The Four Zoas. (State University of New York, 1977) SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions. Haigwood, Laura. "Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion: 192 pp. ISBN: 0-7914-3298-X. Revising an Interpretive Tradition." San Jose Studies, XI, No. 2 [1985] . B. Reprinted in William Blake, ed. Freeman, Kathryn S. "Narrative Fragmentation and Un• David Punter (1996), 94-107. differentiated Consciousness in Blake's The Four Zoas!' Eu• ropean Romantic Review, V (1995), 178-92. §Hampton, Christopher. "Blake's Dialectic: The Prolonga• tion of Mental War." In his Socialism in a Crippled World. Furtwangler, Albert. "Jefferson's Trinity." Pp. 115-37 of his (London: Penguin, 1981). American Silhouettes: Rhetorical Identities of the Founders. (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1987). §Hampton, Christopher. The Ideology of the Text. (The Bacon, Newton, & Locke were reverenced by Jefferson Open University, 1990). and deplored by Blake (128-34). It contains a chapter on Blake.

Glausser, Wayne. "Atomistic Simulacra in the Enlighten• "Harbison, Robert. "The Cult of Death." Chapter 2 (25- ment and in Blake's Post-Enlightenment." Eighteenth Cen• 62) of his Deliberate Regression. (London: Andre Deutsch tury: Theory and Interpretation, XXXII (1991), 73-88 Ltd, 1980) B. §(N.Y Knopf, 1980). . Blake is dealt with particularly on pp. 40-45. "Spectres and emanations can both trace their lineage back through [Epicurean] atomism" (75). *Harman, Clare. "Revealed: Blake's vision of a British statue of liberty: A millenium monument? It won't match a tow• Glendening, John. "Ezra Pound and Ezra Pound's Blake: ering idea they had 200 years ago." Independent on Sunday, Method in Madness, Madness in Method." Paideuma, XX 20 October 1996, p. 7. (1991),95-106. On Flaxman's design for a Naval Monument (1800), In Canto 16, "the apparent madness of the Blake passage scarcely related to either a revelation or Blake. reflects, parodies, and hence resists the madness Pound saw not only in Blake's method, but also, quite possibly, in him• Harris, R. W. "The New Jerusalem of William Blake." Chap• self" (107). ter 8 (149-69) of his Romanticism and the Social Order 1780- 1830. (London: Blandford Press, 1969) Blandford History Goyder, George, Signs of Grace (1993) . and Literature Series. Review A very general introduction to the poetry; "he was less 1 Tim Heath, Journal of the Blake Society (1996), 75-77 (it interested in politics as such than in the moral problems is a "clear and orderly" autobiography). and conflicts within his own breast" (149).

Groves, David. "'W—M B—E, A Great Original': William Hayes, Elliot, Blake\ Innocence and Experience (1983), play Blake, The Grave, and James Hogg's Confessions" Scottish performance .

Spring 1997 140 Blake/An Illustrated Ouarterly Review Beauchesne, 1990). 1 Andrew Lincoln, Blake, XXIX, 3 (Winter 1995-96), 97 Said to be about Blake. ("the limits of the play, and Valerie Doulton's expert han• dling of them, make for a portrait that is definite, determi• Journal of the Blake Society at St James (1995) . 10 Jim Dewhurst, "Is The Tyger All About IT?" Pp. 3-6. See §*Henderson, Jeff. "Right License: Blake's Reading/Paint• Journal of the Blake Society (1996) for a letter of agreement ing of the Canterbury Pilgrims." Publications of the Arkan• by Thomas F. Dillingham and an account by Dewhurst of sas Philological Association, XVIII, 2 (1992), 1-14. the origin of his essay. *The Journal of the Blake Society at St. James (1996). Hilton, Nelson. Literal Imagination [1983] . 2 Peter Ackroyd. "The Writing of Blake." Pp. 3-4. (A gen• Gavin Edwards. "Repeating the Same Dull Round." B. The eral account of the writing of his biography called Blake.) "first half" is reprinted in William Blake, ed. David Punter 3 *G. E. Bentley Jr. "T Hear a Voice You Cannot Hear': Wil• (1996), 108-22. liam Blake's Audiences." Pp. 5-18. ("The world was not David Simpson. "Reading Blake and Derrida—Our much interested in William Blake ... the audience he most Caesars neither Praised nor Buried." B. Reprinted in Wil• valued was in heaven and in his own mind" [18].) liam Blake, ed. David Punter (1996), 149-64. 4 *Michael Grenfell. "Blake And Gnosis." Pp. 19-29. ("Working notes" on Gnosticism with the premise that "A Hobson, Christopher Z. "'The Chained Boys': Ore and Gnostic view is 'the' key to understanding Blake's dense my• Blake's Idea of Revolution." DAI, LVI (1995), 1367A. City thologies" [20, 19].) University of New York Ph.D. (1995). 5 * James Bogan. "Blake on a Bike: Following the Footsteps of Los' Epic Ramble in Jerusalem" Pp. 30-47. (An amusing Hoerner, Fred. "Prolific Reflections: Blake's Contortion of "centrifugal lark" [45].) Surveillance in Visions of the Daughters of Albion!' Studies 6 Jason Whittaker. "Blake and the Native Tradition." Pp. in Romanticism, XXXV (1996), 119-50. 48-56. (An attempt "to sketch briefly the significance of About Oothoon and Locke. the giant Albion and two groups of his sons, the bards and druids, for Blake's religious vision" [48].) §Holten, Ragnar von. "Profet och bildmakare." Svenska 7 Chris Rubinstein. "Xword." Pp. 57-60. (With Blake-con• Dagbladet, 22 April 1978. In Swedish. text clues such as "Scoundrel who knew .Mary Wollstonecraft," five letters presumably for Imlay, the lover James, David E. "Angels out of the Sun: Art, Religion and of Mary Wollstonecraft.) Politics in Blake's America!' Studies in Romanticism, XVIII 8 Chris Rubinstein. ""An Imaginative Exercise: Blake Writes (1979) B. Reprinted in "abbreviated" form in London." P. 60. (A poem.) William Blake, ed. David Punter (1996), 54-70. Correspondence 9 Thomas F. Dillingham. "Blake and The Tyger." Pp. 60-61. James, G. Ingli. "William Blake and Feminist Theology: (Agrees with Jim Dewhurst, "Is The Tyger All About IT?," Some Observations on the Affinities." Feminist Theology, Journal of the Blake Society [1995], 33-36, "that the tiger is, No. 11 (January 1996), 72-85. at least in part, an embodiment of the sexual energy of the Chiefly concerned with "how much there is in Blake phallus"; with a "Note from Jim Dewhurst" [61] about the which particularly resonates with feminist theology, both origin of his essay.) ... Christian and post-Christian," "even if he was an mep" 10 Michael Edwards. "William Blake on Tape." P. 61. (Would (73, 85). anyone like to finance and promote his tape of a reading by a Dartington College student from the Songs and Marriage James, Joan E., & G. Ingli James. "Blake's 'The Clod and the "with my music score"?) Pebble': Some Christian-Feminist Observations." Feminist Information Theology, No. 6 (May 1994), 48-52. 11 Chris Rubinstein. "Memorabilia (2)." P. 62. (The Finch Perhaps "love, properly understood, is neither exclusively Foundry, which "dates from around 1800," is at Sticklepath.) passive nor exclusively active" (52).

§Jossua, Jean-Pierre. Pour une histoire religieuse de :<1 Jim Dewhurst is said to be "Co-designer of this journal interior Texptrience littdraire. Vol. II: La Poesie moderne. (Paris: with Pauline Wilson" (80).

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 141 12 Kevin Kewell. "Blake on the Internet." Pp. 62-63. ing S.F. Damon's A Blake Dictionary." Ningen Bunka Kenkyu ("[email protected] ... is an 'electronic concert dedicated Nenpo, Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku: Bulletin of the Doctoral to the life and work of William Blake'," and Research Course in Himian Culture [Ochanomizu Women's "http:library.utoronto.ca/www/utel rp/authors blake.html" University], No. 17 [1994]. B. Reprinted in chapter 2 (5- has "much to say on Blake and English poetry") 38) of her Eden wa Kitaka: William Blake Ronshu: On the 13 Anon. "The Hammer of Los—'I remember! I remem• Location of Eden: Studies on William Blake. (Tokyo: Kindai ber!'" P. 63. (There were four performances in October Bungeisha, 1996) In Japanese. 1996, and "Any financial contributions welcomed!") 14 Anon. "The Blake Society and Blake Journal." P. 64. (Gen• * Kawasaki, Noriko. Eden wa Kita ka: William Blake Ronshu: eral accounts.) On the Location of Eden: Studies on William Blake. (Tokyo: 15 Anon. "Depression is a Gift." P. 64. (Solicitation for con• Kindai Bungeisha, 1996) 149 pp. ISBN: 4-7733-5907-2 tributions to the next exhibition at the House of William C0095. In Japanese. Blake.) The book consists of reprinted essays: Reviews 1 "Eden wa Kita ka: Damon no Blake Dikushonari Saiko: 16 Sarah Joyce. Review of David Annwn, Hear the Voice of On the Location of Eden: Reconsidering S.F. Damon's A the Bard\ (1995). Pp. 65-67. (The book is a"perceptive read• Blake Dictionary!' Pp. 5-38. (Reprinted from Ningen Bunka ing" of the "Introduction" to Experience.) Kenkyu Nenpo, Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku: Bulletin of the 17 Sunao Vagabond [stage name of Andrew Vernede]. Re• Doctoral Research Course in Human Culture [Ochanomizu view of Andrew Solomon, Blake's Job (1995). Pp. 67-69. (A Women's University], No. 17 [1994].) "marvellous book," "astoundingly well-informed.") 2 "Maigo no Imeji ni tsuite: William Blake to Makura- 18 Peter Cadogan. Review of Jon Mee, Dangerous Enthusi• nososhi 'Mino Mushi' no Dan no Hikaku Kenkyu: On the asm (1992). P. 70. ("A notice rather than a review" of "a Imagery of the Lost Child: Starting from a Comparative brilliant book," "most interesting.") Study of William Blake's Poetry and the 'Minomushi' Pas• 19 Peter Cadogan. Review of George Goyder, The Just En• sage of Makura-no-Soshi." Pp. 39-66. (Reprinted from terprise. Pp. 70-72. (The book, by the President of the Blake Ningen Bunka Kenkyu Nenpo, Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku: Society, is about what happens "if we treat human beings Bulletin of the Doctoral Research Course in Human Culture as human beings" in industry.) [Ochanomizu Women's University], No. 12 [ 1988], 75-89.) 20 Andrew Vernede. Review of Elliott Hayes, Blake—Inno• 3 "Blake ni okeru Ifuku no Imi: The Symbolic Meanings of cence and Experience: A Play. Pp. 72-75. (A review of a per• Clothing in William Blake." Pp. 67-89. (Reprinted from formance at Tristan Bates Theatre, n.d.) Echudo, Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku Daigakuin 21 Tim Heath. Review of George Goyder, Signs of Grace Eibungakkai: Etude [Society of English Literature, Gradu• (1993). Pp. 75-77. (It is a "clear and orderly" autobiogra• ate School of Ochanomizu Women's University], No. 19 phy.) [1989], 40-52.) 22 Tim Heath. Review of Peter Ackroyd, Blake (1995). Pp. 4 "Kozetsu no Iso—Blake no'Maigo no Otokonoko': Phases 77-79. (Ackroyd "builds up a life, slowly, with care and with of Alienation: William Blake's 'The Little Boy Lost.'" Pp. detail.") 91-105. (Reprinted from Romanha Kenkyu, Igirisu Romanha Gakkai: Essays in English Romanticism, Japan As• Kaplan, Marc A. "Weeping woman/weaving woman: gen• sociation of English Romanticism, No. 14 [1990], 8-15.) der roles in Blake's mythology."DAI, LVI (1995), 369A. Cali• 5 "William Blake ni okeru 'Mushi' to 'Katachi': Form and fornia (Los Angeles) Ph.D. (1993). Worm in William Blake." Pp. 107-45. (Translated by the "Sexism is not incidental to Blake's system, but funda• author into Japanese from pp. 96-113 of her essay in Cen• mental." tre and Circumference: Essays in English Romanticism [by members of the] Association of English Romanticism in Kawasaki, Noriko. "Blake ni okeru Ifuku no Imi [The Sym• Japan. Ed. Kenkichi Kamijima. [Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, bolic Meanings of Clothing in William Blake]." Echudo, 1995].) Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku Daigakuin Eibungakkai: Etude [Society of English Literature, Graduate School of * Kawasaki, Noriko. "Maigo no Imeji ni tsuite: William Blake Ochanomizu Women's University], No. 19 [1989], 40-52 to Makura-nososhi 'Mino Mushi' no Dan no Hikaku . B. Reprinted as chapter 3 (67-89) of her Eden Kenkyu: On the Imagery of the Lost Child: Starting from a wa Ki taka: William Blake Ronshu: On the Location of Eden: Comparative Study of William Blake's Poetry and the Studies on William Blake. (Tokyo: Kindai Bungeisha, 1996) 'Minomushi' [Bagworm] Passage of Makura-no-Soshi." In Japanese. Ningen Bunka Kenkyu Nenpo. Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku: Bulletin of the Doctoral Research Course in Human Culture §Kawasaki, Noriko. "Eden wa Kita ka: Damon no Blake [Ochanomizu Women's University], No. 12 [1988], 75-89 Dikushonari Saiko: On the Location of Eden: Reconsider• . B. Reprinted in chapter 1 (39-66) of her Eden

142 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 wa Kita ka: William Blake Ronshu: On the Location of Eden: Lambo, John. "The Imagination as Unifying Principle in Studies on William Blake. (Tokyo: Kindai Bungeisha, 1996) the Works of Blake and Wordsworth." Diogenes, XLI, No. 4 In Japanese. (1993), 59-72 . Minomushi passage is one of 300 passages in Sei "Blake and Wordsworth ... essentially share the same Shonagon, Makura-no-Soshi [Pillow Talk] (early 11th Cen• world view" (59). tury). Leavis, F. R. "Justifying One's Evaluation of Blake." Human Kawasaki, Noriko. "Satan no Chokoku—Blake no Milton World, VI (May 1972), 58. B. Pp. 66-85 of William Blake: ni tsuite ([l]-7)] [Transcending Satan-Self in Blake's Essays in honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Ed. Morton D. Milton]." Gifu Shiritsu Joshi Tankidaigaku KenkyuKiyo [Bul• Paley & Michael Phillips (1973) C. §Pp. 1- letin of Gifu City Women's Junior College], No. 39 (1989), 23 of The Critic as Anti-Philosopher: Essays 8c Papers. Ed. 39-46 ; No. 40 (1990), 49-55; No. 41 (1991), G. Singh. (Athens & London: University of Georgia Press, 149-55; No. 42 (1992), 27-32; No. 43; No. 44 (1994), 15- 1982). 20; No. 45 (1995), 9-16. In Japanese. No. 3 is sub-titled "'pity' to 'shizumu Hi' ['pity' and 'the Lincoln, Andrew. "Blake and the Natural History of Cre• setting Sun']"; from No. 44 (1994), both journal and essay ation," Essays and Studies 1986, N.S. XXXIX (1986), 94- titles appear also in translation. 103 . Material from it is incorporated in revised form in his Kawasaki, Noriko. "William Blake ni okeru 'Mushi' to Spiritual History: A Reading of William Blake's Vala or The 'Katachi': Form and Worm in William Blake." Pp. 96-113 Four Zoas (1995). of Centre and Circumference: Essays in English Romanti• cism [by members of the] Association of English Roman• Lincoln, Andrew. "Blake's Lower Paradise: The Pastoral Pas• ticism in Japan. Ed. Kenkichi Kamijima. (Tokyo: Kirihara sage in The Four Zoas, Night the Ninth," Bulletin of Research Shoten, 1995) . B. Translated by the author in the Humanities, LXXXIV (1981), 470-78 . into Japanese as chapter 5 (107-45) of her Eden wa Kitaka: Material from it is incorporated in revised form in his William Blake Ronshu: On the Location of Eden: Studies on Spiritual History: A Reading of William Blake's Vala or The William Blake. (Tokyo: Kindai Bungeisha, 1996). Four Zoas (1995).

Kazin, Alfred. "An Introduction to William Blake." Pp. 36- Lincoln, A.W. J. "A history of the composition of William 88 of his Inmost Leaf: A Selection of Essays. (N.Y., 1941) Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas as revealed by a study of the B. Pp. 1-55 of The Portable Blake, ed. Alfred Kazin. surviving manuscript." Index to [British] Theses, XXV (N.Y., 1946) C. §(N.Y.: Harcourt, 1955). (1977), 7 (#5470). Wales (Bangor) Ph.D. . It is clearly related to his Spiritual History: A Reading of §Kim, Ok Yub. "Blake eui Milton: jungshinjeok tujaeng eul William Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas (1995). wihan saeroun chutbal [Blake's Milton: A New Start for Mental Conflict]." English Studies [of Seoul University], Lincoln, Andrew. Spiritual History: A Reading of William XVII (1993), 31-43. In Korean. Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) 8°, xviii + 322 pp. ISBN: 0-19-818314-3. §Kim, Young Shik. "William Blake eui yokmang geungiung An elaborate, detailed, and rewarding "staged reading" [Blake's Eulogy on Human Desire]."Journal of English Lan• for "new readers of The Four Zoas" "that moves, as Blake guage and Literature [of Chongjun, Korea], XXXIV (1993), himself moved, from simpler to more complex forms of 25-50. In Korean. writing" and stresses that Vala is "a universal history" with reference to contemporary historians such as Gibbon; King, James. William Blake His Life (1991) . Blake's presentation of the Last Judgment suggests that "al• Review though Man has been imprisoned in a finite vision of the 4 Hatsuko Niimi, Studies in English Literature 1994 ([En• natural world, the prison is locked from the inside" (v, ix, glish Literary Society of Japan, ?1994]), 99-105. 1, 190). The "book incorporate^] material revised from" his (1) Kovel, Joel. "Some Lines from Blake." Chapter 14 (277-87) "Blake's Lower Paradise: The Pastoral Passage in The Four of his The Radical Spirit: Essays on Psychoanalysis and So• Zoas, Night the Ninth," Bulletin of Research in the Humani• ciety. (London: Free Association Books, 1988). ties, LXXXIV (1981), 470-78; (2) "Blake and the Natural The lines from The Marriage: "Man has no Body distinct History of Creation," Essays and Studies 1986, N.S. XXXIX from his soul ... Energy is Eternal Delight" "are an almost (1986), 94-103; (3) "Blake and the 'Reasoning Historian'," exact enunciation of what Freud held to be most essential 73-85 of Historicizing Blake, ed. Steve Clark & David Worrall about the psyche" (277). (London, 1994) (xiv), and it is clearly related to his Uni-

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 143 versity of Wales (Bangor) doctoral dissertation entitled "A Eule, 1992) Studien zur englishcen Romantik 4. history of the composition of William Blake's Vala or The About illustrations of Milton's Satan, especially by Blake, Four Zoas as revealed by a study of the surviving manu• with 35 reproductions. script" (c. 1977). Merton, Thomas. "Blake and the New Theology." Sewanee Tochle, Dieter. William Blake—Roof'd in from Eternity: Review, LXXVI (1968), 673-82 . B. §Pp. 3-11 of Erschienen als Begleitheft zur Ausstellung vom 3. April bis The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton. Ed. Brother Patrick zum 25. Mai 1995 in der Universitatsbibliothek Tubingen. Hart. (New Directions, 1981). (Tubingen: Universitatsbibliothek Tubingen, 1995) 4°, 32 pp. . Miller, Dan, Mark Bracher, 8c Donald Ault, ed. Critical Paths The text consists of 10 excerpts from Blake in English (1987) . and German plus reproductions plus comments. It is ac• David Aers. "Representations of Revolution: From The companied by 10 plates with designs loosely based on French Revolution to The Four Zoas" B. Reprinted in much Blakean figures (first exhibited at Tubingen University Li• shorter form in William Blake, ed. David Punter (1996), brary, April-May 1995) enclosed in a portfolio entitled 165-87. Dieter Lbchle. William Blake—Roof'd in from Eternity. Brenda S. Webster. "Blake, Women, and Sexuality." B. Re• (Tubingen, Germany: Fockenberg 6/1994 [sic], 1995) Fo• printed in William Blake, ed. David Punter (1996), 188- lio, 10 plates, no text. 206.

Mackenzie, J. S. "Conventional Morality." Chapter 6 (133- Morse, David. "The Figure of the Artist in English Roman• 61) of his Arrows of Desire: Essays on Our National Charac• tic Poetry." Chapter 6 (228-92) of his Romanticism: AStruc- ter and Outlook. (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, tural Analysis. (London 8i Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1920). 1982) B. §(N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, 1982). About Blake's attacks on Puritan morality (143-56). Blake is particularly on pp. 234-46.

Maeda, Yoshihiko. "Blake ni yoru Yaso Suisai Sashie No. 68 * Morton, A. L. The Everlasting Gospel: A Study in the no Zuzo o megutte: Notes on the Iconography of Blake's Sources of William Blake (1958) . B. Blake to Design No. 68 for Young's Night Thoughts" Rikkyo Daigaku [and] Ranters: Blake Shiso no Gensen [Sources of Blake's Kenkyu Hokoku, Jinbunkagaku: St. PauVs Review: Arts and Thoughts]. Tr. Shoichi Matsushima into Japanese. (Tokyo: Letters, College of General Education, Rikkyo University, No. Hokuseido Shoten, 1996) 155 pp. ISBN: 590-10105-1 54 (1995), 41-96. In Japanese. C3098. The Japanese version includes "Blake Nenpu [Blake Matsushima, Shoichi. "Blake to Kindai Nippon—Yanagi Chronicle]" (123-36), "Nihon ni okeru Blake Bunken Soetsu to Oe Kenzaburo no Baai [Blake and Modern Ja• [Blake Bibliography in Japan]" (137-48), and "Yakusha pan—Soetsu Yanagi and Kenzaburo Oe]." Gakushuin Atogaki [Translator's Afterword]" (149-55). Daigaku Bungakubu Kenkyu Nenpo: The Annual Collection of Essays and Studies, Faculty of Letters, Gakushuin Univer• Moskal, Jeanne, Blake, Ethics, and Forgiveness (1994) . Reviews Mee, Jon. Dangerous Enthusiasm (1992) . 1 Anon., Chronicle of Higher Education (June 1994) (a one- Reviews sentence summary). 3 ^Michel Baridon, Dix-Huitieme Steele, XXV (1993), 601. 2 Kay Kimbrough, Harbinger (it is "outstanding" for "dem• 4 Francois Piquet, Etudes Anglaises, XLVII (1994), 339-40 onstrating" the "evolution" of Blake's ethical views and for (Mee is an "excellent connaisseur de la literature radicale illuminating Blake as an "original visionary prophet"). du temps"). 3 J. T. Lynch, Humanities: Language & Literature—English 5 Peter Cadogan, Journal of the Blake Society (1996), 70 ("a &. American, XXXII, No. 4 (December 1994) ("the focus is notice rather than a review" of "a brilliant book," "most narrow without always being sharp; the readings are some• interesting"). times belabored; and the importance of her topic is over• stated"). Meller, Horst. "Lucifer Rearing from off the Pool: Revolu• 4 David L. Clark, Christianity and Literature, XLIV, No. 3- tionary Romanticism and the Evolution of Satan." Pp. 9- 4 [sic] (Spring-Summer 1995), 397-400 ("even-handed" 38 of Romantic Continuities: Papers Delivered at the Sym• and "powerfully illuminating"). posium of the 'Gesellschalt fur cnglischen Romantik' held 5 Thomas L. Cooksey, South Atlantic Review, LX, No. 3 (Sep• at the Catholic University of Eichstatt (October 1990). Ed. tember 1995), 123-25 (a "useful contribution," "thorough Giinther Blaicher & Michael Gassenmeier. (Essen: Blaue and well-informed, if at times monotonous" which shows

144 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 that "the intrapsychic wins out over the intersubjective"). Women's University, No. 31 (1996), 1-14. In Japanese. 6 Steven Cox, Blake, XXIX, 3 (Winter 1995-96), 97-102 ("a Norvig, Gerda S. Dark Figures in the Desired Country (1993) typical academic book" whose "problems are not all stylis• . tic and organizational," for "Some of Moskal's intellectual Review positions have not been thought through carefully enough" 5 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies for 1993 [97, 102]). (1996), 324 (the book "is highly compromised by the ne• 7 D. Bg, Academic Library Books Review (April 1996) ("It glect of the materiality of the pictures ... unnerving at best contributes to our understanding of Blake's struggle to rep• and questionable at worst"). resent human forgiveness in his work"). 8 Jason Whittaker, BARS Bulletin & Review, No. 10 (May §Odden, Danile. "Blake, Wordsworth, and the French Revo• 1996), 12-13 (almost entirely summary). lution." Humanist Dagarna: Att Forst a Europa [Humani• 9 Doug Thorpe, Religion & Literature, XXVIII, No. 1 (Spring ties Days: To Understand Europe], ([University of Uppsala] 1996), 129 (with E. P. Thompson, Witness Against the Beast 1994), 147-51. [1993]) (a summary). 10 §Margaret Storch, Modern Language Review, XCI, No. 2 O'Keefe, Richard Robert. "Mythic archetypes in Ralph (1996), 458-59 (with Joseph Viscomi, Blake and the Idea of Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading." Pennsylvania State the Book [1994]). Ph.D. 1991 . 11 David Worrall, Byron Journal (Summer 1996), 96 ("a Presumably it is the basis for his book with the same title brave and important study"). (1995).

Muhlestein, Daniel K. "(Re)Reading 'The Chimney §0'Keefe, Richard. Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Sweeper': Western Marxism, Christian Faith, and a Nega• Emerson: A Blakean Reading. ([ Kent, Ohio: ] Kent State Uni• tive Hermeneutics of Critical Demystification." Literature versity Press, 1995) ISBN: 0-87338-518-7. and Belief: Center for the Study of Christian Values, Presumably it derives from his 1991 Pennsylvania State Brigham Young University, XIII (1993), 69-94. dissertation with the same title . Three readings of "The Chimney Sweeper" from Inno• Review cence, one Marxist. 1 §P. J. Ferlazzo, Choice, XXXIII (1996), 1312-13.

Murry, John Middleton. "William Blake and Revolution." O'Keefe, Vincent. "Debunking the Romantic Ideology: A New Adelphi, N.S. IV (1932), 536-43 . B. Tr. Re-View of Blake's Jerusalem!' European Romantic Review, Bunsho Jugaku, Blake to Whitman, II (1932), 489-91 . C. §Pp. 55-66 of Essays of the Year 1931-1932. "Jerusalem is a socially engaged work of literature" (40). (Fort Lee [New Jersey]: Argonaut, 1932). O'Neill, Michael. "Blake and the Self-Conscious Poem." Pp. §Nemerov, Howard. "Poetry, Prophecy, Prediction." Pp. 145-59 of Trends in English and American Studies: Litera• 208-21 of his Reflexions on Poetry & Poetics. (New ture and the Imagination: Essays in Honour of James Lester Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1972). Hogg. Ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Wolfgang Gortschacher, Said to be about Blake. & Holger M. Klein. (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter [Wales]: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1996). Nemerov, Howard. "Two Ways of Imagination: Blake & "I wish to claim for Blake, then, a simultaneous ability to Wordsworth." Carlton Miscellany, V (1964), 18-41 . B. §Pp. 102-23 of his Reflexions on Poetry & Poet• ics. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1972) C. Paananen, Victor N. William Blake. (Boston, 1977) Twayne §Pp. 140-60 of his New and Selected Essays. (Carbondale: English Authors Series 202 B. "William Blake: Southern Illinois Press, 1985). Updated Edition. (N.Y.: Twayne Publishers; London, Mexico City, New Delhi, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne: §Niikura, Shunichi. "Blake to Seisho [Blake and the Bible]." Prentice Hall International, 1996) Pp. xxi, 185. Meiji Gakuin Daigaku Kirisutokyo Kenkyujo Kiyo [ The Bul• B has an added "Preface to Updated Edition" (ix-xii). letin of the Research Association of Christianity, Meiji Gakuin University], No. 28 (1995), 51-69. In Japanese. Peterfreund, Stuart. "Blake and the Ideology of the Natu• ral." Eighteenth-Century Life, N.S., XVIII (1994), 92-119. Niimi, Hatsuko. "Blake no 'Yameru Bara' no Hi-Genteisei The heart of the matter is "Blake—Prophet Against Ide• (1): The Indefinability of Blake's 'The Sick Rose' (1)." Nihon ology" (104-14): "Embodied humanity does not live by Joshi Daigaku Eibeibungaku Kenkyu: Studies in English and matter alone; spirit, not by matter at all" (114). American Literature, The English Literary Society of Japan

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 145 * Phillips, Michael. "Blake and the Terror 1792-93." Library, Erdman 8c John E. Grant [1970].) 6 S, XVI (1994), 263-97 . 2 Jean H. Hagstrum. "Babylon Revisited, or the Story of Review Luvah and Vala." Pp. 36-53. ("Slightly abbreviated" from 1 R. F. G[leckner], Romantic Movement for 1994 (1995), Blake's Sublime Allegory, ed. Stuart Curran & Joseph A. 44-45 ("A splendid piece of detective work, careful discrimi• Wittreich, Jr. [1973].) nation, and scholarly imagination"). 3 David E. James. "Angels out of the Sun: Art, Religion and Politics in Blake's America." Pp. 54-70. ("Abbreviated" from §*Piquet, Francois. Blake et le Sacre. ([Paris:] Didier Eru• Studies in Romanticism, XVIII [1979].) dition, 1996) Etudes Anglaises 98. 450 pp., 23 reproduc• 4 Nelson Hilton. "Blake in the Chains of Being." Pp. 71-93. tions; ISBN: 2-86460-270-9. (Reprinted from his Literal Imagination [1983].) Presumably it is descended from his Doctorat es lettres 5 Laura Haigwood. "Blake's Visions of the Daughters of of the same title (1981) . Albion: Revising an Interpretive Tradition." Pp. 94-107. (Reprinted from San Jose Studies, XI, No. 2 [1985].) Piquet, Francois. "Entre chiliasme et epiphanie: Blake et 6 Gavin Edwards. "Repeating the Same Dull Round." Pp. l'esperance millenariste." Pp. 143-52 of Evolution et 108-22. (Reprinted from "the first half" of his essay in Revolution(s) dans le Grande-Bretagne du XVIII' siecle: Actes Unnam'd Forms, ed. Nelson Hilton 8c Thomas Vogler des colloques tenues 1989-1990 a la Sorbonne [organises [1986].) par le] Centre d'Etudes anglaises du XVIII1 siecle, Universite 7 W. J. T. Mitchell. "Visible Language: Blake's Wond'rous de Paris III—Sorbonne nouvelle. Ed. Paul Gabriel Bouce. Art of Writing." Pp. 123-48. (Reprinted without the sec• (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1993) Langues et tion on calligraphy, "Human Letters," from Romanticism Langages 24. and Contemporary Criticism, ed. Morris Eaves 8c Michael Fischer [1986].) §Por£e, Marc. "Marges/cadres: I'exemple du romantism 8 David Simpson. "Reading Blake and Derrida—Our anglais." Pp. 177-88 of Cadres et Marges: Actes du quatrieme Caesars neither Praised nor Buried." Pp. 149-64. (Reprinted colloque du CICADA: 2, 3, 4 deomibre 1993. Ed. Bertrand from Unnam'd Forms, ed. Nelson Hilton 8c Thomas Vogler Rouge. (Paris: Publication de l'universite de Paris, 1995). [1986].) It is especially about Blake. 9 David Aers. "Representations of Revolution: From The French Revolution to The Four Zoas!'Pp. 165-87. (Reprinted Poree, Marc. "Po£tique d'une forme breve: Les proverbes from the "much longer" form in Critical Paths, ed. Dan de l'enfer Blakiens." Etudes Anglaises, XLVIII (1995), 395- Miller, Mark Bracher, 8c Donald Ault [1987].) 406. 10 Brenda S. Webster. "Blake, Women, and Sexuality." Pp. An intricate argument about the Marriage. 188-206. (Reprinted from Critical Paths, ed. Dan Miller, Mark Bracher, 8c Donald Ault [1987].) *Prickett, Stephen. "Swedenborg and Blake: The Privatisation of Angels." Pp. 215-21 of his Origins of Nar• Purinton, Marjean D. "An Act of Theological Revisioning: rative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible. (Cam• William Blake's Pictoral Prophecy." Colby Quarterly, XXIX, bridge: University Press, 1996). 1 (March 1993), 33-42 . In Blake's watercolor of "Jacob's Ladder," the presence of Review angelic females and children suggests a Swedenborgian con• 1 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for text. The book is about "the way in which the Romantics 1993 (1996), 325 ("profoundly disorienting"). read the Bible" (xi). §Raine, Kathleen. "C. G. Jung—A Debt Acknowledged." Punter, David. "Legends of the Animated Body: Blake's Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies, XXXIV (1988-89), 7- Albion and the Body and Soul of the Nation." Romanti• 22. B. Chapter 13 (167-76) of Jungian Criticism. Ed. Rich• cism,! (1995), 161-76. ard Sugg. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1992) . Punter, David, ed. William Blake. (Basingstoke & London: "1 would not call myself a 'Jungian'—Blake is my mas• Macmillan Press Ltd, 1996) New Casebooks 8°, ISBN: 0- ter," but "a follower of Blake must be, if not a follower of 333-54596-6 (hardcover) and 0-333-54957-4 (paperback). Jung, at all events a fellow traveler" (B, 168, 167). The book consists of John Peck 8c Martin Coyle, "Gen• eral Editors' Preface" (ix); David Punter, "Introduction" Raine, Kathleen. "The Underlying Order: Nature and the (1-15) plus Imagination." Chapter 15 (198-216) of Fragments of Infin• 1 George Quasha. "Ore as a Fiery Paradigm of Poetic Tor• ity: Essays in Religion and Philosophy: A Festschrift in sion." Pp. 16-35. ("Reproduced in a slightly abbreviated Honour of Professor Huston Smith. Ed. Arvind Shaara. form" from Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic, ed. David V. (Bridport, Dorset: Prism Press; Garden City Park, N.Y.:

146 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 Avery Publishing Group; Lindfield, Australia: Unity Press, an order parallelling the order of their appearance in the 1991). prophecy. Most striking of all, perhaps, are the similarities Blake is especially on pp. 201-10; "Let us examine what between Blake's portrait of Milton and Second Isaiah's por• he is in reality saying" in his myth (206). trait of the servant" (106).

§Rexroth, Kenneth. "Poets, Old and New: William Blake." §Rogal, Samuel J. "Blake's And did those feet' as Congre• Pp. 208-09 of his Assays. (New Directions, 1962). gational Hymn." Hymn, XLIV, No. 3 (July 1993), 22-25. Includes a history of its composition and performance. §Richey, William. Blake's Altering Aesthetic. (University of Missouri Press, 1996) 216 pp., ISBN: 0-8262-1077-5. §*Roob, Alexander. Das hermetische Museum: Alchemie und Mystik. (Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1996) §Richey, William. "Neoclassical Gothicism of Blake's Early ISBN: 3-8228-8803-6. Poetry and Art." Poetica, XXXIX-XL for 1993 (Shubun In• Blake is reproduced and explained on pp. 69, 119, 161, ternational Co., Ltd., 1994), 73-91. 163-64, 174, 182, 192, 201-02, 213-14, 229-31, 259, 296- 97, 429, 433, 437, 461, 482, 489, 491, 523, 531, 551, 553, Richey, William. "'Not Angles but Angels': Blake's Pictorial 577, 626, 632-33, 649, 652, 663, 692-93, 696-97. Defense of English Art." European Romantic Review, VII An English edition is scheduled for 1997. (1996), 49-60. Blake's design of "Non Angeli Sed Angli," based on James Rosso, George Anthony, Jr., Blake's Prophetic Workshop Barry's Inquiry (1775), refutes the idea that "British artists (1993) . were incapable of artistic excellence" (49). Reviews 11[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1993 (1994), Richey, William. "'One must be master': Patronage in 69 (a summary). Blake's Vala." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 2 Andrew Lincoln, Blake, XXIX, 3 (Winter 1995-96), 95- XXXIII (1993), 705-24. 96 ("some of the assumptions and methods involved seem The account of the fall of Los in Night I reflects Blake's questionable" [95]). experience that "By trying to please one patron [ William 3 Philip Cox, Review of English Studies, N.S., XLVIII (1996), Hayley], he risks offending another [Thomas Butts}" (708). 425-26 (the book "will be of use to new students" of Blake but "fails to contribute in a sustained way to an advance• Riede, David G. "Blake's Milton: On Membership in the ment of our understanding of Blake's most puzzling epic"). Church Paul." In Re-membering Milton: Essays in the Texts 4 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for and Traditions. Ed. Mary Nyquist & Margaret W Ferguson. 1993 (1996), 326-27 ("genuinely humanist in its sympa• (London: Methuen, 1987) B. Reprinted "in re• thies"). vised form" as "Blake and the Church Blake." Chapter 1 5 Margaret Storch, Yearbook of English Studies, XXVI (1996), (33-91) of his Oracles and Hierophants: Constructions of 292 (it is "welcome" and "lucid"). Romantic Authority. (Ithaca & London: Cornell Univer• sity Press, 1991) Also pp. 4-12 and passim. Rothenberg, Molly Anne. Rethinking Blake's Textuality (1993) . Ries, Frank W D. "Sir Geoffrey Keynes and the Ballet Job" Reviews Dance Research, II, No. 1 (Spring 1984), 19-34 . 69-70 (a "remarkable tour deforce" "an individual though An interview with Keynes—all the words are those of depersonalized response to Blake in post-structuralist and Keynes and his collaborators Gwen Raverat (his sister-in- 'post-post-structuralist' terms"). law) and Vaughan Williams (her cousin)—about the Job 2 Harriet Linkin, Blake, XXIX, 3 (Winter 1995-96), 92-94 ballet (BB #2049), with "the original scenario" (30-33). (a "few important close readings beautifully ground Rothenberg's astute but sometimes theory-thick discussion Rix, Donna S. "Milton: Blake's Reading of Second Isaiah." of philosophical and religious contemporary contexts to Chapter 7 (106-18, 203-06) of Poetic Prophecy in Western compensate for whatever imperfections the book contains" Literature. Ed. Jan Wojcik & Raymond-Jean Frontain. [94]). (Teaneck, Rutherford, Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson Uni• 3 Kathryn S. Freeman, European Romantic Review, VII versity Press; London & Toronto: Associated University (1996), 87-90 (the book "offers keen insight" [87]). Presses, 1984). 4 Margaret Storch, Yearbook of English Studies, XXVI (1996), An argument that "on the first six plates of Milton, Blake 292-93 ("challenging and penetrating"). not only employs almost all of the themes and images of 5 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for Second Isaiah [Isaiah 40-55], but he also arranges them in 1993 (1996), 327 ("a subtle book but not a wilful one").

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 147 §Rothery, Agnes Edwards. "Four Poets and Four Gardens." the Revolt Against Theory. (Chicago & London: University Pp. 51-166 of her Joyful Gardener. (Dodd, 1949). of Chicago Press, 1993). Probably it is related to her "Mad Poets in the Spring," Virginia Quarterly Review, III (1927), 250-63 Simpson, Matt. "Blake's Songs of Innocence and [of] Experi- about John Clare, Blake, Mangan, and Dowson. encer Critical Survey, IV, No. 1 (1992), 20-27. "Blake demands ... that we experience Songs ... as vision• Sato, Hikari. "Oothoon no Koe to Kafuchosei Shakai— ary" (22). Blake no Albion no Musumetachi no Genso no Ichikosatsu: The Voice of Oothoon and Patriarchy [On Visions of the Smith, L. E. W "The Sick Rose." Part 6 (61-68) of his Twelve Daughters of Albion]." Igirisu Romanha Kenkyu, Igirisu Poems Considered. (London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1963) B. Romanha Gakkai: Essays in English Romanticism, Japan As• (1964). sociation of English Romanticism, No. 19-20 (1996), 31- "It is the sounds rather than the meanings of the words 39. In Japanese. in this poem that make us feel what it is about" (A, 68).

*Sayers, Lesley-Ann. "An enigma more than a landmark." Solomon, Andrew, Blakes Job (1995) . Dance Now, II, No. 3 (Autumn 1993), 40-47, 49. Review The Birmingham Royal Ballet revival of Ninette de Valois's 1 Sunao Vagabond [stage name of Andrew Vernede], Jour• Job ballet based on Blake's designs "is nothing nal of the Blake Society (1996), 67-69 (a "marvellous book," less than a revelation." "astoundingly well-informed").

Schock, Peter A. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Blake's ^Stephens, James. "William Blake." Pp. 195-201 of his James, Myth of Satan and its Cultural Matrix." ELH, LX (1993), Seumas, and Jacques: Unpublished Writings of James 441-70 . Stephens. Ed. Lloyd Frankenberg. (N.Y.: Macmillan, 1964). Reviews 11[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1993 (1994), *Stevenson, Warren. "Blake's Myth of Divine Analogy." 70-71 ("the information he has assembled here on the po• Chapter 1 (23-48) of his Romanticism and the Androgynous litical and intellectual milieu of the time is valuable in it• Sublime. (Madison & Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson Uni• self"). versity Press; London: Associated University Press, 1996). 2 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies for 1993 (1996), 323 (admiring). Storch, Margaret, Sons and Adversaries (1990) . Review *Schwenger, Peter. "Blake's Box, Coleridge's Circles, and the 1 §Adela Pinch, Signs, IX (1993), 264-68. Frame of Romantic Vision." Studies in Romanticism, XXXV (1996), 99-117. Sturrock, June. "Protective Pastoral: Innocence and Female Focuses on Blake's drawing of "Elisha in the Chamber on Experience in William Blake's Songs and Christina Rossetti's the Wall" and "the power of the frame" (116). Goblin Market." Colby Quarterly, XXX (1994), 98-108. "Both Songs of Innocence and of Experience and Goblin * Scott, Grant F. "A Clash of Perspectives: Blake's Illustra• Market present versions of pastoral [ in the sense of an idyl• tions to the Poem Night Thoughts: At once monumental lic, rural setting] ... to suggest the state of youthful inno• and elastic, Blake's powerful images inhabit a world of their cence" (105). own." Muhlenberg: The Magazine of Muhlenberg College, V, No. 1 (Fall 1993), 10-16. Suzuki, Masashi. Genso no Shigaku: William Blake Kenkyu: "Blake often turns Young's most characteristic features Visionary Poetics: A Study of William Blake. (Kyoto: ... against him" (14). The 10 reproductions are from the Aporonsha, 1994) ISBN: 4-87041-058-3 C3098 . Review Shabetai, Karen. "The Question of Blake's Hostility Toward 1 Shigeru Taniguchi, Igirisu Romanha Kenkyu, Igirisu the Jews." ELH, LXI (1996), 139-52. Romanha C.akkai: Essays in English Romanticism, Japan As• "I remain puzzled and disturbed by the many examples sociation of English Romanticism, No. 19-20 (1996), 149- of hostility that pepper his works," especially in the debate 52. In Japanese. about Deism, though "Blake appears at best uninterested *Suzuki, Masashi. "'We censure Nature for a Span too in the 'Jewish question'" (139, 149). short': William Blake and Night Thoughts II, 115-20." Pp. 305-26 of Enlightened Groves: 1 ssavs m Honour of Profes• Simpson, David. "The Struggle with Albion's Angels: Will• sor Zenzo Suzuki. Ed. Eiichi Hara, Hiroshi Ozawa, & Peter iam Blake." Pp. 159-67 of his Romanticism, Naturalism and Robinson. (Tokyo: Shohakusha, 1996) ISBN: 4-88198-858- 1.

148 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 Swann, Joseph. "The Breaking of Language: Blake and the Review Development of Yeats's Imagery." Pp. 217-31,344-45 of The 11[rene] H.C[hayes], Romantic Movement for 1993 (1994), Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama. Ed. Joseph 72 (a summary). McMinn, with Anne McMaster, & Angela Welch. (Gerrards *Vaughan, Frank A. Again to the Life of Eternity: William Cross: Colin Smythe, 1992) Irish Literary Studies, 41 . (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press; London: As• "Blake's whole poetic drift [sic] was to attack and break" sociated University Presses, 1996) Folio, 139 pp., 116 plates, "the aesthetic unity of the poem," and "This was the way ISBN: 0-945636-74-1. Yeats was to think and write" (220, 223). "Blake was not much interested in illustrating" Gray; in• stead, "he fought to free the mind-forged manacles," "To §Takemura, Masayuki. "Views of the Human Imagina• educate one to rebel," to implant "not knowledge but a radi• tion—Blake, Poe [and] Swedenborg." Eibeibunka [English cal burning doubt" (7, 116, 18). Blake's 116 watercolors for and American Literature], No. 26 (1996), 41-51. Gray are reproduced in reduced size and monochrome.

*Tengberg, Violet. William Blake's "The Tyger": En Vine, Steven, Blake's Poetry: Spectral Visions (1993) . Konstvelenskapliga Institutionen Goteborgs Universitet. Review (Handledare: Lars Stockel, Hostterminen, 1994) 66 leaves I Janet Warner, Blake, XXIX, 3 (Winter 1995-96), 96 ("of• printed on one-side-only from typescript in Swedish, plus ten the critic is undermined by the energy and mystery of 23 reproductions. his poet," but "the approach that seemed confusing in The Ff. 20-44 are about the Songs, including a translation of Four Zoas works brilliantly in Vine's concise discussions of "The Tyger" (f. 60). Milton and Jerusalem").

Thompson, E. P., Witness Against the Beast: William Blake Viscomi, Joseph, Blake and the Idea of the Book (1994) and the Moral Law (1993) . Reviews Reviews 7 Peter Bradshaw, "Return to dissent," Evening Standard, 9 §Daniel Mark Epstein, "The Two William Blakes," New 16 December 1993, p. 40 (it shows the "vigour and distinc• Criterion, XIII, No. 2 (October 1994), 10-22 (with the five tive Englishness" of Blake and of E. P. Thompson). Blake Trust volumes). 8 §Terry Eagleton, NSS, XXVI (1993), 39-40 (cautious 10 §Morton D. Paley, Wordsworth Circle, XXV (1994), 198- praise). 99 ("revolutionary" and "indispensable"). 9 §Colin Welch, Spectator, 18-25 December 1993, pp. 70- II Thomas G. Tanselle, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 71. XLIX (1995), 534-37 §> (a "magnificent 10 §Alfred Kazin, "The Vision Thing," New Republic, 21 achievement" which "will profoundly influence future stud• March 1994, pp. 38-40. ies," but "there could ... be greater clarity in Viscomi's use 11 J[ohn] P[eter] L[undman], Romantic Movement for 1993 of bibliographical terminology" such as "edition" for "print- (1994), 70-71 ("an essential corrective to Blake studies run"). which are, far too often, as fantastical as Blake's own 12 §Anon.. Dix-Huitieme Siecle, No. 27 (1995—Revue works"). Annuelle). 12 §Nigel Smith, Eighteenth Century, XLIV (1994), 147-55. 13 § Hazard Adams, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 13 Francois Piquet, Etudes Anglaises, XLVIII (1995), 195- LIU, No. 4 (Fall 1995). 98 (this "etude captivante" demonstrates that "Thompson 14 § Jeffrey D. Parker, South Atlantic Review, January 1995, est un admirable connaisseur du monde complex des 174-76. sectes" [498]). 15 §Sarah Symmons, British Journal of Aesthetics, XXXV, 14 Doug Thorpe, Religion & Literature, XXVIII, No. 1 No. 3 (July 1995), 308-09. (Spring 1996), 129 (with Jeanne Moskal, Blake, Ethics, and 16 Barthelemy Jobert, Revue de I'Art, No. 112 (1996), 78 Forgiveness [1994]) (a summary). (with The Continental Prophecies, ed. D. W Dorrbecker 15 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV [1995]), and The Urizen Books, ed. David Worrall [1995]) for 1993 (1996), 328-29 ("at a stroke, Witness Against the ("magistrale"). Beast makes Blake understandable"). 17 §Colin Steel, Australian Book Collector (April 1996) (with Ackroyd's Blake [1995]). "Treadwell, James, "Blake, John Martin, and the Illustra• 18 §Margaret Storch, Modern Language Review, XCI, No. 2 tion of Paradise Lost." Word & Image, IX (1993), 363-82 (1996), 458-59 (with Jean Moskal, Blake, Ethics, and For• . giveness [1994]). 19 S. L. M., Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 138e Ann£e (1996), 20 (a summary).

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 149 20 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies for 1993 collaborator Ruthven Todd published his own book called (1996), 521-22 (it displays "staggering logic"). William Blake as an artist.

Wada, Ayako. "Blake's Vala/The Four Zoas: The Genesis of Wright, Julia M. "And None Shall Gather the Leaves': Un• Night I as a Preludium." Igirisu Romanha Kenkyu, Igirisu binding the Voice in Blake's America and Europe!' European Romanha Gakkai: Essays in English Romanticism, Japan As• RomanticReview,\\\ (1996), 61-84. sociation of English Romanticism, No. 19-20 (1996), 5-14. "Blake appropriates the homology between biological and The Preludium (Night I, 3-7) "reversed this archetypal non-biological creativity to address the politics of the cop• vision of the Fall ... in the America Preludium," and in its ied text" (77). further revision "The poem suffered the fatal structural wounds when it had hardly been given shape" (11, 12). Young, Gerard. "Blake's Felpham paintings on exhibition in Manchester." Post, 17 May 1969. Ward, Aileen. "The Forging of Ore: Blake and the Idea of Review of the exhibition of Blake's Heads of the Poets for Revolution." Tri-Quarterly, XXIII-XXIV (1972), 204-07 Hayley's Library at the City Art Gallery (Manchester) . B. §Pp. 204-27 of Literature in Revolution. #697>. Ed. George Abbott & Charles Hamilton Newman. (N.Y.: Holt, 1972). Youngquist, Paul. "Reading the Apocalypse: The Narrativity of Blake's Jerusalem" Studies in Romanticism, XXXII (1993), Ware, Tracy. "Bring'Gladness out of Sorrow': By theAurelian 601-25. Wall!' Pp. 111 -27 of Bliss Carman: A Reappraisal. Ed. Gerald The "contingent narrativity of Jerusalem" works by "rami• Lynch. (Ottawa, London, Paris: University of Ottawa Press, fication and incursion" (613). 1990) Reappraisals: Canadian Writers . Review "Carman's indebtedness to Blake is obvious and exten• 1 David Worrall, Year's Work in English Studies, LXXIV for sive"; in "The Country of Har: For the Centenary of Blake's 1993(1996), 327. Songs of Innocence" Athenaeum (1890) reprinted in By the Aurelian Wall (1898), "Har is the ideal of England" (119, Zamir, Shamoon. "The Artist as Prophet, Priest and Gun- 118). slinger: Ishmael Reed's Cowboy in the Boat ofRa" Callaloo: A Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters, §Wemyss, Henry. "Blake Watercolours from The Frick Col• XVII (1994), 1205-35. lection." Sotheby's Preview (November 1996), 18-19. Partly about the contexts of Blake and Yeats in Reed's poem "I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra." §Williams, John. "Place of William Blake in Relationship to the Growth of Radical Thought in England." York Uni• Division II: Blake's Circle versity D.Phil., 1974. Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812) Wilmott, Richard; Brian Alderson; Colin A. St John Wil• Entrepreneur, Patron and Exploiter of Blake son; Michael Saunders. "Newton statue." Times, 10 August David Alexander. "Cromek, Robert Hartley." Vol. VIII, p. 1992, p. 11 (Wilmott & Alderson), 13 August 1993, p. 11 186 of The Dictionary of Art. Ed. Janet Turner. (N.Y: Grove's (Wilson & Saunders). Dictionaries; London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, Paolozzi's statue of Newton after Blake's design for the 1996). new British Library is "a cultural gaffe" (Wilmott), "dem• onstrates the BL's failure to apprehend the artist's mean• Cumberland, George (1754-1848) ing" (Alderson), is creditable because "ambivalent" and Polymath, Blake's Friend, Correspondent, and "equivocal" (Wilson, a member of the BL committee) and Collaborator because "whereas Blake's figure is impotent and exposed David Rodgers. "Cumberland, George." Vol. VIII, p. 264 of to the elements, Paolizzi's is immensely strong and power• The Dictionary of Art. Ed. Janet Turner. (N.Y: Grove's Dic• ful [sic]" (Saunders, chairman of the British Library board). tionaries; London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1996). Thomas Johnes. A Land of Pure Dcliglit: Selections from §Winegarten, R."The Apocalyptic Vision of William Blake." the Letters of Thomas Johnes of Hafod, Cardiganshire Pp. 3-19 of his Writers and Revolution: The Fatal Lure of (1748-1816). Ed. Richard J. Moore-Colyer. (Llandysul: Action. (New Viewpoints, 1974). Corner Press, 1992). §Wolf, Edwin. William Blake as an Artist An account of "George Cumberland" (62-65) precedes The unpublished book was offered with Wolf's Blake pa• letters from Johnes to him of 1784-1815. In a letter to Rob• pers by ^Jonathan Hill, Catalogue 98 (1996), Lot 54, for ert Anderson of 29 January 1808, Johnes says that in $7,500 (see Essick, Marketplace, 1996). Wolf's sometime Malkin's Father's Memoirs of His Child (1806)

150 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 1997 "You will see an account of Blake and an eulogium of your Abbott, George 150 Cox, Philip 147 humble servant. Blake is certainly verging on the extrava• Ackroyd, Peter 123, 128, 134, 141, 142 Cox, Stephen 137, 138, Adams, Hazard 134, 149 145 ganza" (230). Aers, David 144, 146 Cranston, Maurice 138 Ahlstrom, Chrispin 134 Crisman, William 138 Flaxman, John (1756-1826) Alderson, Brian 150 Curran, Stuart 139, 146 Sculptor, Friend of Blake Alexander, David 150 Allsup, James O. 135 Davie, Donald 139 David Bindman. "Flaxman, John." Vol. XI, pp. 161-63 of Alonso, Mariano Vazquez 128 Davies, J. M. Q. 139 The Dictionary of Art. Ed. Janet Turner. (N.Y.: Grove's Dic• Ananda, Dharmachari 134 Davies, Keri 132, 136,137 tionaries; London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1996). Annwn, David 134, 142 Davis, Mike 125 Anzai, Keiko 135 Davreu, Robert 138, 139 Aoyama, Keiko 121, 132, 135, 137 Day.Aidan 139 Fuseli, John Henry (1741-1825) Arakawa, Mitsuo 135 de Campos, Augusto 128 Artist, Friend of Blake Ault, Donald 144, 146 de Diego, Estella 133 David Blayney Brown. "Fuseli, Henry [Johann Heinrich Den Otter, A. G. 139 Dewhurst, Jim 141 Fiissli]." Vol. XI, p. 862 of The Dictionary of Art. Ed. Janet Baldwin, Michael 135 Baridon, Michel 144 Dillingham, Thomas F. Turner. (N.Y.: Grove's Dictionaries; London: Macmillan Barry, Kevin 135 141 Publishers Limited, 1996). Bate, Jonathan 134 Dirda, Michael 134 Becker, Felix 139 Dorrbecker, D. W. 121, Beer, John 135 Linnell, John (1792-1882) 126, 128, 139, 149 Behrendt, Stephen 135 Doulton, Valerie 137 Painter and Engraver, Blake's Patron Bemrose, John 134 Christina Payne. "Linnell, John (ii)." Vol. XIV, pp. 426-28 Benthall, Jonathan 140 Eagleton, Terry 149 of The Dictionary of Art. Ed. Janet Turner. (N.Y.: Grove's Bentley.E. B. 121 Eaves, Morris 125, 126, Bentley, G. E., Jr. 121, 123, 132, 136, Dictionaries; London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 128, 137, 139, 146 137, 138, 141 Edwards, Gavin 141,146 1996). Bentley, Julia G. 121 Edwards, Michael 141 Bg, D. 145 Eglinton, Guy C. 135 Palmer, Samuel (1805-81) Bindman, David 136, 151 Eliot, T. S. 139 Blaicher, Giinther 144 Endo, Toru 139 Artist, Blake's Disciple Bogan, James 123,141 Engetsu, Katsuhiro 139 David Blayney Brown. "Palmer, Samuel." Vol. XXIII, pp. Bouce, Paul Gabriel 146 Epstein, Daniel Mark 124, 844-47 of The Dictionary of Art. Ed. Janet Turner. (N.Y.: Bowra, Cecil Maurice 138 125, 126, 128, 149 Bracher, Mark 144, 146 Grove's Dictionaries; London: Macmillan Publishers Lim• Erdman, David V. 132, Bradford, Richard 138 138, 139, 146 ited, 1996). Bradshaw, Peter 149 Ernst, C. 140 Brammer, Marsanne Carolee 138 Espinosa, Gabriel Sanchez Richmond, George (1809-96) Brown, David B. 132 133 Brown, David Blayney 151 Artist, Blake's Disciple Essick, Robert N. 121, Brown, Marshall 138 123, 125, 126, 128, David Blayney Brown. "Richmond, George." Vol. XXVI, pp. Browne, Max 137 129, 130, 132, 136, 137 353-54 of The Dictionary of Art. Ed. Janet Turner. (N.Y.: Bull, Malcolm 138 Esterhammer, Angela 140 Grove's Dictionaries; London: Macmillan Publishers Lim• Butlin, Martin 132, 137 Butt, William 138 Fausset, Hugh I'anson 140 ited, 1996). Butter, P. H. 128 Feldman, Paula R. 136 Byrne, John 121 Ferber, Michael 126,137 Varley, John (1778-1842) Ferguson, Margaret W. 147 Artist, Astrologer, Friend of Blake Cadogan,Peter 142,144 Ferlazzo, P. J. 145 Cantor, Paul 134 Fischer, Michael 138, 139 Anne Lyles. "Varley, John." Vol. XXXI, pp. 908-09 of The Caplan, David 137 146 Dictionary of Art. Ed. Janet Turner. (N.Y.: Grove's Dictio• Carames, J. L. 124 Fitch, Donald 132,138 naries; London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1996). Castoren, Gunnar 138 Frankenberg, Lloyd 148 Chauvin, Daniele 138 Fraser, Kennedy 134 Chaves, Irene H. 136, 138, 139, Freeman, Arthur 121 147, 148 Freeman, Kathryn S. 140, Chou, Wen-ping i 128 147 Cieszkowski, Krzysztof 129 Frontain, Raymond-Jean Clark, David L. 144 147 Clark, Steve 138, 143 Fuller, David 132, 139 Clarke, Lorraine 138 Furtwangler, Albert 140 Cloudsley, Tim 139 Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine 145 Gamer, Michael 137 Commander, John 124, 125, 126, Gassenmeier, Michael 144 128, 138 Gilbert, R. A. 133 Cooksey, Thomas L. 144 Glausser, Wayne 140 Corugedo, S. G. 124 Gleckner, Robert E 136, Courthope, William John 138 140, 146

Spring 1997 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 151 Glendening, John 140 Lamb, Jonathan 139 Piquet, Francois 123, 125, 138, 144, Tanselle, Thomas G. 149 G6mez, Monserrat 133 Landers, Linda Ann 128 146, 149 Tengberg, Violet 123, 149 Gortschacher, Wolfgang 145 Leavis, F. R. 143 Plowman, Max 128 Thieme, Ulrich 139 Gott.Ted 132 Lincoln, A.W. J. 143 Por£e, Marc 146 Thompson, E. P. 145, 149 Goyder, George 140,142 Lincoln, Andrew 123, 125, 137, 138, Pound, Alan 125 Thorne, Gary 137 Grant, John E. 139, 146 141,143, 147 Prickett, Stephen 123,146 Thorpe, Doug 145, 149 Grenfell, Michael 123, 141 Linkin, Harriet 137, 147 Punter, David 122, 123, 139, 146 Todd, Ruthven 150 Groves, David 140 Lisovska, Olga 129 Purinton, Marjean D. 146 Treadwell, James 149 Grundy, Thomas E. 140 Lochle, Dieter 144 Turner, Janet 136, 150 Gurley, George 134 Locke, Louis Glenn 138 Quasha, George 139,146 Gurney, Stephen 140 Loughnan, Michael 137 Vagabond,Sunao 142 Lundeen, Kathleen 138 Raine, Kathleen 146 Vaughan,Frank A. 123,129,149 Lundman, John Peter 149 Read, Dennis M. 128, 137 Vernede, Andrew 142, 148 Lyles, Anne 151 Rexroth, Kenneth 147 Vice, John 136 Hagstrum, Jean H. 139, 146 Lynch, Gerald 150 Richey, William 123, 147 Villena, Elvira 133 Haigwood, Laura 140, 146 Lynch, J. T 144 Riede, David G. 147 Vine, Steven 137, 149 Hallett.Mark 139 Rix, Donna S. 147 Viscomi, Joseph 121,122, Halloran, William 121 Mackenzie, J. S. 144 Robinson, Peter 149 125, 126, 128, 136, 137, 149 Hamlyn, Robin 122,133 Macve, Jennifer 129 Rodgers, David 150 Vogler, Thomas 141,146 Hampton, Christopher 140 Maeda, Yoshihiko 144 Rodney, Paul Wayne 137 Vultce, Denise 137 Han, Francois 124 Mane, Pablo 128 Rogal, Samuel J. 147 Hara, Eiichi 149 Manguel, Alberto 128, 134 Roob, Alexander 147 Wada.Ayako 150 Harbison, Robert 140 Matsushima, Shoichi. 144 Rosso, George Anthony, Jr. 137, 147 Ward.Aileen 136, 150 Harman, Clare 140 McKennitt, Lorena 137 Rothenberg, Molly Anne 123, 137, Ware, Tracy 150 Harris, R. W. 140 McMaster, Anne 149 147 Warner, Janet 137, 149 Hart, Patrick 144 McMinn, Joseph 149 Rothcry, Agnes Edwards 148 Webster, Brenda S. 144, 146 Harvey, Giles 121 Mee.Jon 124, 125, 142 Rouge, Bertrand 146 Welch, Angela 149 Hayes, Elliot 137, 140 Meller, Horst 144 Rubinstein, Chris 141 Welch, Colin 149 Heath, Tim 134, 140 Merton, Thomas 144 Russell, A. G. B. 139 Wemyss, Henry 150 Henderson, Jeff 141 Met/dorf, Robert F. 132 Whittaker, Jason 138, 141, Henshaw, William 128 Miller, Dan 144, 146 Sacks, Russell B. 133 145 Hilton, Nelson 121, 141, 146 Mitigate, Michael 121 Sampson, John 128 Wilkie, Brian 139 Hobson, Christopher Z. 141 Sato.Hikari 148 Williams, John 150 Hoerner, Fred 141 Mitchell, W. J. T. 139, 146 Sayers, Lesley-Ann 148 Wilmott, Richard 150 Hoffman, Ted 121 Monreal, Luis 133 Schock, Peter A. 148 Wilson, Colin A. St John Holten, Ragnar von 141 Moore, Donald 129 Schuchard, Marsha Keith 136 150 Howell, Heather 121,125 Moore-Colyer, Richard J. 151 Moran.Adela 133 Schwenger, Peter 148 Wilson, Pauline 141 Morse, David 144 Sclater, Andrew 129 Windle, John 124 Ima-Izumi, Yoko 132,137 Morton, A. L. 144 Scott, Grant F. 148 Winegarten, R. 150 Moskal, Jeanne 121, 123, 137, 144 Serraller, Francisco Calvo 133 Wittreich, Joseph A., Jr. James, David E. 141, 146 Muhlestein, Daniel K. 145 Shaara, Arvind 147 139,146 James, G. Ingli 141 Muir, William 126 Shabatai, Karen 123, 148 Wojcik, Jan 147 James, G. Ingli. 141 Murry, John Middleton 145 Shantigarbha 133 Wolf, Edwin 150 James, Joan E. 141 Sharman, Margaret 121 Worrall, David 121,126, Jobert, Barthelemy Nemerov, Howard 145 Simpson, David 136, 141, 146, 148 128, 136,138, 139, 141, 126, 128, 149 Newman, Charles Hamilton 150 Simpson, Matt 148 143, 145, 148, 149, 150 Johnes, Thomas 151 Niikura, Shunichi 145 Sinclair, Iain 124, 125, 126, 128, 134 Wright, Julia M. 123,150 Jones, Thomas 129 Niimi, Hatsuko 143, 145 Singh, G. 143 Jossua, Jean-Pierre 141 Northrup, James 121 Smirnov, Dmitri 121 Yang, Xianyi 121 Journal of the Blake Society Norvig, Gerda S. 145 Smith, L.E.W. 148 Yang.Yi 125 at St James 122, 141 Nyquist, Mary 147 Smith, Nigel 149 Yongosa, Sisa 129 Joyce, Sarah 135, 142 Solomon, Andrew 148 Young, Gerard 150 Odden.Danile 145 Steel, Colin 134, 150 Youngquist, Paul 150 Kaiensi, G. 125 O'Keefe, Richard 123, 145 Steer, Francis W. 132 Kamijima, Kenkichi 142 O'Keefe, Richard Robert 145 Stepanova, Sergeia 128 Zalite, Tamara 129 Kaplan, Marc A. 142 O'Keefe, Vincent 145 Stephens, James 148 Zamir, Shamoon 150 Kawasaki, Noriko 123, 132, O'Neill, Michael 121, 145 Stevens, David 128 142 Orr, Chris 136 Stevenson, W. H. 125 Kazin, Alfred 143, 149 Ozawa, Hiroshi 149 Stevenson, Warren 136, 148 Kewell, Kevin 142 Storch, Margaret 145, 147, 148, 150 Keynes, Geoffrey 125 Paanancn, Victor N. 123, 145 Sturrock, June 148 Kim.OkYub 143 Pagnini, Marcello 124 Sugg, Richard 146 Kim, Young Shik 143 Paley, Morton 1). 121, 124, 125, 143, Suied, Alain 124 Kimbrough, Kay 144 149 Suzuki Masashi 148 King, James 143 Parker, Jeffrey D. 149 Swann, loscph 149 Klein, Holger M. 145 Payne, Christina 151 Sweet, Nanora 137 Kochov, Joshu 128 Symmons, Sarah 149 Kovel.Joel 143 Peterfreund, Stuart 123,145 Phillips, Michael 143, 146 Takemura, M.is.ivuki 149 Pinch, Adela 148 Taniguchi, Shigeru 148

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