[The Riddle manuscript]
By: [William Blake].
Series: Blake -- no. 417
Published: 1800
Language: eng
Format: Manuscript
Notes: Holograph list of riddles playing with words. On the verso is a proof before letters of Blake's 14th engraving for Hayley's Designs to a series of ballads. The leaf was trimmed to conform to the proof, and this trimming has removed the beginnings of the lines and perhaps some lines at the top of the text written the other way up on the recto.

Title and date supplied by G.E. Bentley.

In case.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 135

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

Victoria University Library copy includes in the case, with the manuscript, the sheet with window, stitch-holes along the margin and the number "97" in old brown ink in top right corner, in which the manuscript was originally loosely mounted. Also included in a separate folder (in pocket in case) are 6 photographs with negatives and two photocopies of the proof and "Riddle manuscript".