Announcing the first publication of William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray
Subtitle: introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes Kt.
Contributors: Trianon Press.
Series: Blake -- no. 623A; Blake box -- no. 14
Publisher: Trianon Press, for the William Blake Trust, London
Published: 1972
Place of publication: [France]
Language: eng
Subjects: Gray, Thomas, -- 1716-1771.; Blake, William, -- 1757-1827.
Other titles: William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray
Notes: Prospectus.

Various copies of the prospectus included varying facsimiles of Blake's designs.

"Printed in France."

"The Blake Trust facsimiles are published by The Trianon Press, Château de Boissia, Clairvaux, Jura ... "

"Distributed ... by ... Bernard Quaritch Ltd. ... London."

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

Victoria University Library copy 1 includes facsimile of Blake's design for "Persons of [sic] Horseback riding full speed toward a hill & seeming to Enter into it" - preface to Gray's The fatal sisters: an ode; copy 2 includes facsimile of Blake's design for "Upstairs in a whirlwind rattle" from Gray's Long story.

Reprint from the Nov. 21, 1971 Observer article on the techniques of publication of this volume laid in.

Victoria University Library copies stored in Blake box no. 14.