The complaint, and the consolation, or, Night thoughts
By: by Edward Young.
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Series: Blake -- no. 797
Publisher: Printed by R. Noble for R. Edwards
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Other titles: Night thoughts
Notes: Contains only the first four "Nights".

This copy of the 1797 edition of Young's Complaint may be unique in that it does not include the illustrations, designed and engraved by William Blake, although they are mentioned in the editor's "Advertisement". Cf. G.E. Bentley's Young's Night Thoughts (London: R. Edwards, 1797): a new unillustrated state", Blake, XIV (1980), pp. 34-35.

Bound in pale green paste-boards covered with green paper, with leather label on spine, as issued.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 515

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., p. 270.

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