The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil
Subtitle: with the first Eclogue and the Imitation
By: by Ambrose Philips; the introduction by Geoffrey Keynes
Contributors: Virgil.; Philips, Ambrose, 1674-1749; Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837
Publisher: The Nonesuch Press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Blake, William, -- 1757-1827; Virgil. -- Illustrations
Notes: Blank versos of paged-in plates not counted

Folder of 17 plates in pocket

Twenty woodcuts illustrating Ambrose Philips' Imitation of Eclogue I in the Pastorals of Virgil ... By Robert John Thornton. 3d ed. London, 1821. All were engraved by Blake with 3 exceptions which were re-engraved from his designs by another hand

The set of prints in pocket "taken direct from electrotypes of the wood-blocks."

"The woodcuts were first reproduced and published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine, in 1899. They were reproduced again, with an introduction by Lawrence Binyon, for the Unicorn Press, London, in 1902. Enlarged facsimiles in platinotype were made by Frederic H. Evans and issued privately in 1912. The two sheets of proofs were reproduced side-by-side with the prints as they appeared in the book in the Burlington magazine, December, 1920."

"This edition ... is limited to one thousand copies."--T.p. verso

Spec Collection copy no. 95
Table of contents: value: Introduction.; value: The first Eclogue of Virgil.; value: Ambrose Philips's Imitation of Eclogue I, with Blake's illustrations.; value: Proofs of eight of Blake's blocks in their original state.; value: Sixteen of Blake's pencil designs for the wood-engravings