Visions of the daughters of Albion
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827, illustrator, etcher, printer, colorist; Blake, Catherine Boucher, printer; Cockerell, Douglas, binder; Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945, former owner; Methuen, Algernon, 1856-1924, former owner; Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984, former owner
Publisher: Printed by Willm. Blake
Published: 1793
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Notes: Unique copy.

"The Eye sees more than the Heart knows."

Plates produced through Blake's own process of relief etching. Date on title-page confirmed as printing date by The William Blake archive. This copy sold by the Earl of Crewe in 1903. Bound in 1904 by Douglas Cockerell in green morocco. Acquired by Algernon Metheun. Bought by Philip Hofer in 1936. For complete provenance, see Bentley (p. 476).

Watermark: E & P; printed in green ink; colored; no penned numbers; no etched numbers.

11 plates on 6 leaves. First leaf has plate on verso only, the rest have plates on rectos and versos.

Order of plates (Bentley numbers): 1-11. See Bentley, Table, p. 466.

Cf. William Blake archive (online, viewed July 23, 2014): Visions of the daughters of Albion (1793): electronic edition.

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

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

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