William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray
By: introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes Kt.
Contributors: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.; Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982; William Blake Trust.
Series: Blake -- no. 623
Publisher: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, London; Distributed by B. Quaritch
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Boissia, Clairvaux, Jura; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Blake, William, -- 1757-1827.; Gray, Thomas, -- 1716-1771 -- Illustrations.; English poetry -- Illustrations.
Genres: Illustrations.
Work titles: William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray
Notes: Issued unbound in a case (46 cm.) with portfolio (43 cm.).

Facsimile of a vol. in possession of Paul Mellon containing 116 designs with inlaid pages from Gray's Poems, 1790. The designs were probably begun in 1797.

"518 copies ... 12 copies numbered I to XII, in three volumes, full morocco, with an additional portfolio containing a series of progressives showing the stages in the hand-stencil colouring of a single plate, together with original guide-sheets and stencils and other material used in making the facsimile, presented in a matching box. 36 copies numbered 1 to 36, unbound in the French style, in a full morocco portfolio, with an additional portfolio containing technical material ... 352 copies numbered 37 to 388, in three volumes bound in quarter morocco or unbound in the French style in a quarter morocco portfolio ... 100 copies numbered 389 to 488 are reserved for Mr. Paul Mellon. 18 copies numbered A to R are hors commerce"--Leaf [2] (4th group).

Victoria University Library copy is no. 459 of 100 numbered copies reserved for Mr. Paul Mellon.

Victoria University Library copy has original wrappers as issued.

Victoria University Library copy has reprint from the Nov. 21, 1971 Observer article on the techniques of publication of this volume laid in; Interim prospectus laid in.