Songs of innocence and of experience : shewing the two contrary states of the human soul, 1789-1794 / the author and printer William Blake ; [with an introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, William, 1757-1827, author.

Contributor:

Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982, writer of added commentary.

Trianon Press, publisher.

Orion Press (Firm), active 1967, publisher.

Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., compositor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Blake, William.

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Literature.

Songs of innocence and of experience (Blake, William).

Medical Subjects:

Literature.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Caston Old Face.

Penn Provenance:

Auerbach, Nina, 1943- (former owner) (Libra Rare copy)

Auerbach, Nina, Estate of (Libra Rare copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : 55 color plates ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Orion Press in association with The Trianon Press, Paris, 1967.

Notes:

Includes index of first lines.

The text was set in Monotype Caston Old Face by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co, Ltd.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Myron Portenar and Anne Jaffe Portenar.

Libra Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries by the estate of Nina Auerbach in 2017.

Libra Rare copy in slipcase.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in slipcase.

ISBN:

0192810898

9780192810892

0195199774

9780195199772

OCLC:

358574