Poems from William Blake's Songs of innocence / drawings by Maurice Sendak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Contributor:

Sendak, Maurice.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Songs of innocence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blake, William, 1757-1827. Songs of innocence and of experience. Songs of innocence--Illustrations.

Blake, William.

Songs of innocence (Blake, William).

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Poetry.

Pictures.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (inscription) (Tehon Collection copy)

Thiras, Stephen (inscription) (Tehon Collection copy)

Sendak, Maurice (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 x 11 cm

Manufacture:

[London] : Stellar Press.

Place of Publication:

London : The Bodley Head, [1967]

Contents:

Introduction

A dream

The lamb

The ecchoing green

Night

The little boy lost

The little boy found.

Notes:

Text and illustrations printed on rectos only.

"Maurice Sendak has specially drawn for The Bodley Head these illustrations ... The text is reprinted from the Nonesuch Press edition of 'The Complete Writings of William Blake,' London, 1957. This edition of 275 copies is for presentations by the Publishers ... Christmas 1967."--Colophon.

Semi-stiff cover with wrap-around pictorial paper dust jacket. Tied with string.

Considered the rarest of Sendak's published work.

Designed by Atha Tehon.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy inscribed "Dec. '67. Dear Atha & Steve. Wishing you a most happy Everything! (May Blake forgive me!). Maurice".

Tehon Collection copy misbound: paged 5, 11, 9, 7, 13, 19, 17, 15.

OCLC:

22545416