Walking round Cambridge with William Blake / pictured by Rose Harries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, William, 1757-1827, author.

Contributor:

Harries, Rose, illustrator.

Moss, Graham, 1947-2025, printer, publisher.

Whalen, Kathy, printer, publisher.

Lane, Stan, compositor.

Brett, Christian, typographer.

Incline Press, publisher.

Monotype Corporation, type designer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Auguries of innocence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blake, William, 1757-1827. Auguries of innocence--Illustrations.

Blake, William.

Ethics--Poetry.

Ethics.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Baskerville.

Case bindings (Binding)

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Printed paper binding labels (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Poems.

Autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Whalen, Kathy (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Moss, Graham, 1947- (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[58] pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Oldham [England] : Incline Press, [2008]

Summary:

"William Blake's 'Auguries of Innocence' is not an easy text, for despite the nursery-rhyme simplicity of couplets ... the moral world he created is a difficult place to try to inhabit, even if only while reading. Like Shakespeare or Homer, though, each reading reveals new shades of meaning. Rose Harries was a stranger to Blake's couplets until last year when she spent some time with them, wandering the streets of Cambridge, then fitting her impressions of the poem with the modern scenes of street-life. Not surprisingly, her line drawings open the text in a new way, prompting the reader to a fresh view of a complex masterpiece"--Incline Press website, viewed on September 30, 2015

Notes:

"The paper is Zerkall 6726r, supplied by John Purcell Paper Company of London. The 18 pt Monotype Baskerville was cast by Stan Lane of Gloucester Typesetting and composed by Christian Brett of Bracketpress. Rose Harries used Indian ink to turn her sketches into line drawings, with Blake's poem propped on her drawing board. The edition is of a hundred and sixty copies of which this is [blank] Printed and published by Graham Moss & Kathy Whalen, Incline Press ... Oldham ..."--Colophon

"Fifty-two pages bound in quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards ... four sections, with end papers included ... The title is on a printed paper label glued to spine"--Incline Press website, viewed on September 30, 2015

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy is number 20.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 8 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 160 copies. See colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has laid in Christmas card signed by the printers with "best wishes for 2009".

OCLC:

297434918