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Issues) and Searcher Based at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, Begin with the Summer Issue AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY Blake Books: Publications and Discoveries, 2006 VOLUME 41 NUMBER 1 SUMMER 2007 &Uk e AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY www.blakequarterly.org VOLUME 41 NUMBER 1 SUMMER 2007 CONTENTS Article Minute Particulars William Blake and His Circle: Blake in the Times Digital Archive A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2006 By Keri Davies 45 By G. E. Bentley, Jr., with the Assistance ofHikari Sato for Japanese Publications "VISIONS OP BLAKE, THE ARTIST": An Early Reference to William Blake in the Timet By Angus Whitehead 46 Review Blake Society Annual Lecture, 28 November 2006: Patti Smith at St. James's Church, Piccadilly Reviewed by Magnus Ankarsjo ■II ADVISORY BOARD (,. I . Bentley, Jr., University of Toronto, retired Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Martin Butlin, London Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles Detlcf w. Ddrrbecker, University of Trier Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Robert N. Lssick, University of California, Riverside David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University Angela Esterhammer, University of Western Ontario CONTRIBUTORS David Worrall, Faculty of Humanities, The Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS UK Email: [email protected] G. E. BENTLEY, JR., is a recovering book collector but is still ad• dicted to scholarship, at the moment to Blake's heavy metal and bibliomania (a confession) and Blake's murderesses. MAGNUS ANKARSJO ([email protected]) is a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough Universi• ty. He is the author of William Blake and Gender (2006) and is currently completing the manuscript of Reconstructing Blake, on the substantial changes that Blake studies are now under• going in the wake of recent discoveries about Blake's life, par• ticularly his Moravian family background. INFORMATION KERI DAVIES ([email protected]) has been for many years secretary of the Blake Society. He is currently a research fel• BLAKE/AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY is published under the spon• low in English at Nottingham Trent University. sorship of the Department of English, University of Roches• ter. Subscriptions are $60 for institutions, $30 for individu• ANGUS WHITEHEAD ([email protected]) is a re• als. AJ1 subscriptions are by the volume (1 year, 4 issues) and searcher based at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, begin with the summer issue. Subscription payments received University of York, and is organizer of the three-day interna• after the summer issue will be applied to the current volume. tional Blake at 250 conference in celebration of the 250th an• Addresses outside the US, Canada, and Mexico require a $15 niversary of Blake's birth. He is currently on the trail of Blake's per volume postal surcharge for surface delivery, or $20 for guest and customer Mrs. Chetwynd. airmail. Credit card payment is available. Make checks pay• able to Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. Address all subscription orders and related communications to Sarah Jones, Blake, De• EDITORS partment of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451. Back issues are available; address Sarah Jones for information on issues and prices, or consult the web site. EDITORS: Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley MANUSCRIPTS are welcome in either hard copy or electronic BIBLIOGRAPHER: G. E. Bentley, Jr. form. Send two copies, typed and documented according to REVIEW EDITOR: Alexander S. Gourlay forms suggested in the MLA Style Manual, and with pages ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR GREAT BRITAIN: David Worrall numbered, to either of the editors. No articles will be returned unless accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope. PRODUCTION OFFICE: Department of English, Morey 410, For electronic submissions, you may send a disk, or send your University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 article as an attachment to an email message; please number MANAGING EDITOR: Sarah Jones [email protected] the pages of electronic submissions. The preferred file format TELEPHONE: 585/275-3820 FAX: 585/442-5769 is RTF; other formats are usually acceptable. Morris Eaves, Department of English, University of INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER: 0160-628x. Blake/An Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Illustrated Quarterly is indexed in the Modern Language Asso• Email: [email protected] ciation's International Bibliography, the Modern Humanities Research Association's Annual Bibliography of English Lan• Morton D. Paley, Department of English, University of guage and Literature, Humanities International Complete, California, Berkeley CA 94720-1030 Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents and Email: [email protected] the Bibliography of the History of Art. G. E. Bentley, Jr., 246 MacPherson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4V 1A2 Canada Alexander S. Gourlay, Department of English, Rhode Island © 2007 Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley School of Design, 2 College Street, Providence RI 02903-2717 Email: [email protected] ARTICLE Florence and Rome, Spain with Spanish and Catalan, and the United States with the Library of Congress and the National Agricultural Library and the National Library of Medicine). And of course many of the works recorded under "Wil• William Blake and His Circle: liam Blake," especially in the libraries of the English-speaking world, are by impostors such as the Boston bookseller William A Checklist of Publications and Blake (the poet's contemporary) and the Bordeaux publisher Discoveries in 2006 William Blake (our contemporary) and the London econo• mist William Blake (the poet's contemporary), not to men• tion nominally distinct individuals such as William D. Blake, BY G. E. BENTLEY, JR. William O. Blake, and William I. Blake, whom the catalogues cannot distinguish from the true William Blake (1757-1827), the London poet. WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HIKARI SATO And the mammoth record of Blakes in the Library of Con• FOR JAPANESE PUBLICATIONS gress catalogue (1950 entries) includes hundreds of musical settings of his poetry and motion pictures (almost all the movies irrelevant to the poet). Blake Publications and Discoveries in 2006 The harvest here is plentiful but not comprehensive, and there may be rewards left for the gleaner. I only looked in li• What is now proved was once only imagin'd braries with significant European focus, whether in Europe or Marriage of Heaven and Hell, pi. 8 in sophisticated former European colonies (Australia, Faroe Is• lands, Iceland, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singa• While looking for something else, I bumped into the pore, United States of America); I have not looked, for example, electronic links to National Library Catalogues Worldwide at the catalogues of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. I looked only <http://www.library.uq.edu.au/natlibs/>. Of course, such a for writings by and about William Blake the poet. I did not titanic resource must be another of those tiresome electronic search for books bearing his commercial engravings except for vaunt ings—but it is real. Well, most of it is pretty real. works by Fuseli (43) and Lavater (994) in the National Library The libraries included in March 2006 were Algeria, Andor• of Switzerland and for Jose Joaquin de Mora, Meditaciones Po- ra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, eticas (1826), in Spanish-speaking countries. The holdings for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, the national libraries of England (the British Library), Ireland, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Scotland, and Wales are already recorded from COPAC in Blake Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Eire, Estonia, (2006), and the holdings for the National Library of Australia Faroe Islands (with some interesting Blakes), France, Ceorgia, were extensively recorded in Blake Booh Supplement (1995). Germany (78 Blake titles), Greece, Greenland, Holland, Hon• A curiosity of this search concerns Jose Joaquin de Mora, duras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Meditaciones Poetkas (1826), with prints from Blake's designs Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, for Blair's Grave (1808), which was published by "R. Acker- Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, mann, y en su Establecimiento en Megico, Colombia, Buenos Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Ayres [Argentina], Chile, Peru, y Guatemala." It is not a com• Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Pakistan (1), Panama, mon book, and publicly owned copies have been traced only Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal (37), Romania, Russia, in Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (Santiago), Biblioteca Nacio- Saudia Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, nal de Espana (Madrid), Boston Public, California (Berkeley), Slovenia, South Africa, Spain (99), Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzer• Harvard, Liverpool, McGill, State University of New York land, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, (Stony Brook), Texas, Victoria & Albert Museum, Victoria Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America (1950), University in the University of Toronto (Bentley copy), and Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wales, and Yugoslavia. Yale. None is recorded in the national libraries of Argentina, There are 94 national libraries in this list, but there is some Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and double-dipping, doubtless noted by those who survived I his Peru. Did Ackcimann really have offices in South America? astonishing list:
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