Blake's illustrations of Dante
Subtitle: seven plates
By: designed and engraved by W. Blake, Author of "Illustrations of the Book of Job," &c. &c.
Contributors: Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982; William Blake Trust; Trianon Press
Series: Blake -- no. 709
Publisher: Published by the Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, London
Published: 1978
Place of publication: [Boissia, Clairvaux
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321. -- Illustrations
Notes: Includes a description, "The Dante engravings", by Geoffrey Keynes and reproductions of "Early states and related drawings & watercolours".

Includes a reproduction of a printed label (inside front cover) which accompanied each of the one hundred sets printed in 1892.

In slipcase.

"The edition consists of 440 copies printed on Lana rag paper: 18 copies numbered I-XVIII, bound in half morocco, each containing a modern restrike from one of the original copperplates in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the National Gallery of Art, U.S.A., also an extra set of the facsimile engravings and material showing the stages of the making of the facsimile; 20 copies numbered XIX-XXXVIII, bound in half morocco, each containing an extra set of the facsimile engravings and material showing the stages of the making of the facsimile; 376 copies numbered 1-376, bound in quarter morocco with cloth sides; 26 copies numbered A to Z, reserved for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust and for the Publishers."

Includes bibliographical references.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., p. 208

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

Fisher Rare Book Library copy is No. 21 of 376 numbered copies.

Victoria University Library copy is No. 223 of 376 numbered copies.

Victoria University Library copy has the Prospectus for this facsimile laid in.