Thirteen watercolor drawings by William Blake illustrating Paradise lost by John Milton
By: with descriptions and commentaries by Robert N. Essick & John T. Shawcross ; to accompany the edition of Paradise lost published in 2002 by the Arion Press, text edited by John T. Shawcross and with an introduction by Helen Vendler
Contributors: Essick, Robert N., editor; Shawcross, John T., editor; Hoyem, Andrew, book designer; Milton, John, 1608-1674; Arion Press; Wookey Hole Mill; Essick, Robert N.; Shawcross, John T.; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery; Arion Press
Publisher: The Arion Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Illustrations; Fall of man in art; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Other titles: 13 watercolor drawings by William Blake
Notes: "The first facsimiles printed at full scale in full color from the original works [pen and watercolor] in the collection of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California".

Plates 1-12 are from the smaller paintings, ca. 1807; plate 13 is reproduced from the larger series of paintings, dated ca. 1806-1808.

Issued to accompany the edition of Paradise Lost published in 2002 by the Arion Press.

"Commentary by Robert N. Essick is adapted from William Blake at the Huntington, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., publishers, in association with the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1994. Descriptions of the drawings are based on information in the book and in The paintings and drawings of William Blake by Martin Butlin, Yale University Press, 1981"--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 85.