The book of Thel
By: the author & printer Willm. Blake. 1789
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827, illustrator, etcher, printer, colorist; Blake, Catherine Boucher, printer; Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847, former owner; Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925, former owner
Publisher: William Blake
Published: 1789
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: Unique copy.

Wholly engraved.

Plates produced through Blake's own process of relief etching. "Printed in late 1789 or early 1790."--The Wiliam Blake archive. This copy acquired from Blake by Thomas Dibdin no later than 1816. Bound after 1816 with Visions of the daughters of Albion, (Bentley) copy G., in straight-grained brown morocco. Acquired by Amy Lowell ca. 1900, and bequeathed by her in 1925 to Houghton Library, Harvard University. For complete provenance, see The William Blake archive and Bentley (p. 128)

Watermark: none; printed in green ink; hand-colored; etched numbers.

Order of plates (Bentley numbers): 1-8

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

William Blake archive (viewed July 25, 2014), The book of Thel (1789): electronic edition, copy J http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=thel&java=no

Keynes, G. Bib. of William Blake, 35, copy H

Keynes & Wolf. William Blake's illuminated manuscripts, The book of Thel, copy J [h]

Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 18 (p. 118-132), copy J