Europe, a prophecy
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827, illustrator, etcher, printer, colorist; Blake, Catherine Boucher, printer; Cumberland, George, 1754-1848, former owner; Butts, Thomas, 1759-1846, former owner; Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885, former owner; Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945, former owner; White, William Augustus, 1843-1927, former owner; Weld, F. M., Jr. (Francis Minot), former owner; White, Harold T., -approximately 1960, former owner
Publisher: Printed by Will: Blake
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Lambeth [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Notes: Unique copy.

Wholly engraved.

Plates produced through Blake's own process of relief and white-line etching. Year on title-page confirmed as date of printing by The William Blake archive. This copy may have been sewn with America, copy B and then separated from it. It was bound before 1835 with America, copy F, Visions of the daughters of Albion, copy B and The song of Los, copy D, and sold with Blair's The grave in 1835, in the library of George Cumberland, to Thomas Butts. It was subsequently separated and owned in sequence by the Earl of Crewe, William Augustus White, F. M. Weld, Jr., and Harold T. White. Given by White's widow (in accordance with his will) to Harvard in 1963. For complete provenance, see Bentley, p. 158.

Watermarks: I Taylor; 1794 J Whatman; colored; penned numbers, 1-15.

Disbound. Former binding order (in Bentley numbers) follows penned numbers and is confirmed by offsets (see Bentley, Table, p. 142): 1-2; 4-9; 11-14, 10, 15-18. Bentley plate 3 lacking in this copy.

Cf. William Blake archive (online, viewed July 22, 2014): Europe (1794): electronic edition.

Keynes, G. Bib. of William Blake, 41, copy B

Keynes & Wolf. William Blake's illuminated books, Europe, a prophecy, copy C [b]

Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 33 (p. 141-164), copy C