Blair's Grave
By: illustrated in twelve plates by Blake.
Contributors: Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765-1810.; Blair, Robert, 1699-1746.
Series: Blake -- no. 685
Publisher: R. Ackermann, i.e. John Camden Hotten
Published: 1870
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: Blair, Robert, -- 1699-1746.; Blair, Robert, -- 1699-1746 -- Illustrations.
Other titles: Grave :
Notes: Title from cover of portfolio. Plates include the engraved title page: "The grave, a poem. Illustrated by twelve etchings executed by Louis Schiavonetti, from the original inventions of William Blake. 1808.", with imprint in the plate, "London, Published March 1st. 1813, by R. Ackermann, Strand."

Printed and issued in conjunction with J.C. Hotten's 1870 type-facsimile edition of Robert Blair, The grave, which bears only the imprint of the 1813 edition published by R. Ackermann. Printed from the original plates, previously re-lettered for publication as illustrations to Jose Joaquin de Mora's Meditaciones poeticas (London : Ackermann, 1826), re-lettered yet again as for Ackermann, 1813. See Essick, R.N. and M.D. Paley, "The printings of Blake's designs for Blair's Grave", Book Collector 24:4 (Winter 1975): 535-552).

Dark violet morocco-grained cloth portfolio; blind stamping of covers includes designs found on cover of the 1870 edition binding; title in gold on front cover; pale yellow pastedowns on inner covers.

Bentley, G.E.  Blake books, 435E.

Essick & Paley.  Robert Blair's The grave illustrated by William Blake, p. 194 ("plates only, 1813 (1870) portfolio")

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

Victoria University Library copy: Lacks the portrait of Blake.