Visions of the daughters of Albion
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827, illustrator, etcher, printer, colorist; Blake, Catherine Boucher, printer; Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847, former owner; Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925, former owner
Publisher: Printed by Willm. Blake
Published: 1795
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Notes: Unique copy.

Wholly engraved.

"The Eye sees more than the Heart knows."

Plates produced through Blake's own process of relief etching in 1793. Date of printing, 1795. Dates taken from The William Blake archive. This copy acquired from Blake by Thomas Dibdin no later than 1816. Bound after 1816 with The book of Thel, (Bentley) copy J, in straight-grained brown morocco. Acquired by Amy Lowell ca. 1900, and bequeathed by her in 1925 to Houghton Library, Harvard University. For complete provenance, see The William Blake archive and Bentley (p. 128).

Watermark: 1794 J Whatman; printed in brownish-black ink; colored.

Penned numbers 1-11, in some cases written over etched numbers. Cf. The William Blake archive.

Order of plates (Bentley numbers): 2, 1, 3-11.

Cf. Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 18 (p. 118-132), copy J.

William Blake archive (online, viewed July 25, 2014), Visions of the daughters of Albion (1793): electronic edition, copy G http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=vda&java=no

Keynes, G. Bib. of William Blake, 39, copy I

Keynes & Wolf. William Blake's illuminated books, Visions of the daughters of Albion, copy G [i]

Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 213 (p. 464-478), copy G