Little Tom, the sailor
By: printed for and sold by the widow Spicer, of Folkestone for the benefit of her orphans October 5th, 1800
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827; William Blake Society of Art and Letters
Publisher: Richard C. Jackson for the William Blake Society of Art and Letters
Published: 1917
Place of publication: [Lambeth (London, England)
Language: eng
Other titles: William Blake's "Little Tom, the sailor"
Notes: A poem by William Hayley with 2 illustrations by William Blake

Cover title: William Blake's "Little Tom, the sailor"

" ... First edition, cast in moveable types ... "--Leaf [3]

Originally printed as an etched broadsheet ballad--Bentley, G.E. Blake books, no.470A

Colophon: Munificenti Jacksonni ... William Blake's "Little Tom, the sailor," now first cast in type and printed in book form ... has been printed at the costs and charges made Richard C. Jackson, founder and President of the William Blake Society of Art and Letters ... by way of celebrating his one-hundredth and sixty birthday; in ... Lambeth, by George Vincent Steer, Senior, of which one hundred copies (with ten proofs) have been taken .

Place, publisher, and date inferred from colophon

Title in black, surrounded by ornamental border in red

Reproductions of the original pewter etchings are printed in monochrome

"The William Blake Society of Art and Letters" [list of officers]--Leaf [3] verso

Keynes, G. Blake, 239;

Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 470E

Spec Collection copy has the following tipped in at back: a printed advertisement for this publication; and two ms. pieces from Jackson to a potential customer