Songs of innocence and of experience
By: by William Blake.
Series: 0Blake -- no. 439
Publisher: Henry Young & Sons, Limited
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Work titles: Songs of innocence and of experience
Notes: "This edition has been produced in the same laborious way as Blake produced his, viz., the designs have been bitten out of metal plates by acid, printed in a press with the same tints as Blake used, and (in the case of the coloured copies) painted by hand with water-colours and gold which are as nearly like those of the original as a clever and devoted copyist could make them. The colouring and gilding have been done by Mr. Samuel Hurd [after copy T] ... in the British Museum."--Publisher's note.

"This edition is limited to 151 copies, of which the first 51 copies are coloured and gilded, numbered and signed."

Quarter cloth with paper labels, and spare labels tipped in, as issued.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 178

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., p. 135

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

Victoria University Library copy is no. 122 of the uncoloured copies.