[Illustrations to Hayley's Ballads
By: drawn & engraved by W. Blake 1802 (?)].
Contributors: Hayley, William, 1745-1820.
Series: Blake -- no. 728
Publisher: Pubd. by R. Phillips ...
Published: 1805
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Notes: Five prints from Hayley's Ballads (1805) mounted on leaves of good unwatermarked wove paper, which are stitched into good quality heavy paper beige covers. Title is that written in ms. on front cover.

Plates 1-3 ("The Dog", "The Eagle", and "The Lion") are in first states; plates 4-5 ("The Hermits Dog", and "The Horse") are in second states. Cf. Easson.

Imprint of Hayley's Ballads: Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave for Richard Phillips ... London, 1805.

Easson, R. & R. Essick. William Blake: book illustrator, VIII.

Cf. Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 465

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

Victoria University Library copy has book-plate of Greville Matheson Macdonald based a Blake design; and small red book-plate of George Goyder.

Victoria University Library copy contained in clamshell box with title on spine: Hayley's Ballads.