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Songs of innocence and experience / William Blake.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Peter Pauper Press 109
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blake, William, 1757-1827, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Songs of innocence and of experience
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Deberny.
- Rag (Paper)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 58 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Manufacture:
- New Rochelle [N.Y.] : Walpole Printing Office
- Place of Publication:
- New Rochelle [N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, 1935.
- Contents:
- Songs of innocence
- Introduction
- The shepherd
- The echoing green
- The lamb
- The little black boy
- The blossom
- The chimney sweeper
- The little boy lost
- The little boy found
- Laughing song
- A cradle song
- The divine image
- Holy Thursday
- Night
- Spring
- Nurse's song
- Infant joy
- A dream
- On another's sorrow
- Songs of experience
- Earth's answer
- The clod and the pebble
- The little girl lost
- The little girl found
- The sick rose
- The fly
- The angel
- The tyger
- My pretty rose tree
- Ah! Sun-flower
- The lilly
- The garden of love
- The little vagabond
- London
- The human abstract
- Infant sorrow
- A poison tree
- A little boy lost
- A little girl lost
- A divine image
- The school boy
- To Tirzah
- The voice of the ancient bard.
- Notes:
- Alternate pages blank.
- In slipcase.
- "950 copies of this edition, hand-set in Deberny italic, with medallions adapted from engravings by Blake, have been printed on a special all-rag paper at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle, This copy is number ..."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 36.
- Cited in:
- Donnelly & Dobkin, 523 (page 144)
- OCLC:
- 461411347
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