The history of Sir Charles Grandison, and the Hon. Miss Byron
Subtitle: in a series of letters
By: by Mr. Samuel Richardson, author of the histories of Pamela and Clarissa Harlowe ; embellished with fifteen superb engravings.
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827.; Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.
Edition: Cooke's edition.
Series: Blake -- no. 765
Publisher: Sterotyped and Printed for C. Cooke ... by D. Cock and Co. ..., Soho; and sold by all booksellers in the United Kingdom
Published: 1811
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Other titles: Sir Charles Grandison
Notes: The imprint is implied from the plate-imprints of 19 May-21 Nov 1811--though, as the edition is printed from stereotyped plates, it could have been reprinted any time from 1811 to 1818, when the title-page was altered. Cf. G.E. Bentley, Jr. Blake books supplement, p. 243.

"Formerly published in seven volumes; the whole now comprised in two."

All of the plates are engraved after designs by Stothard; three of the plates were engraved by William Blake.

"The designs, dated 1811, are the same as those in the Novelist's magazine ed. of 1783, reduced and with some plates re-engraved." Cf. G.E. Bentley, Jr., A supplement to Blake books, Blake: an illustrated quarterly 43, v. 11, no. 3, winter 1977-1978, p. 149-150.

"The prints, with the same ornamental borders, have had the inscriptions altered; the plate-number is omitted, a new imprint is substituted for the old one, the names of the designer and engraver are re-lettered (and Stothard's name is sometimes misspelled), the epistle- and volume-numbers are added, and the scene is identified. In addition, the fading lines of the design have been re-entered and some of the costumes and hair-styles brought up to date, from c. 1770 to c. 1811." Cf. G.E. Bentley, Jr. Blake books supplement, p. 243.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., 487E

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.