1970
by Blake, William (Trianon Press)
1970. London: Trianon Press, 1970.
4to, 10 facsimile leaves and 5 pp. of commentary. Original full green morocco, backstrip slightly faded as usual, slipcase.
§ Edition de luxe, this being copy h.c. ii, limited to 36 copies specially bound with extra suites of the plates, of an edition in all of 662 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 5. All Religions are One (c. 1788) is “a small tractate, perhaps Blake’s first experiment in his illuminated printing, [it] exists in only one copy. It affirms that the Imagination ‘is the true man’... and thus early Blake had completed his revolutionary theory of the nature of man and proclaimed the unity of all true religions.” ((Damon, Blake Dictionary). (Inventory #: 104777)
4to, 10 facsimile leaves and 5 pp. of commentary. Original full green morocco, backstrip slightly faded as usual, slipcase.
§ Edition de luxe, this being copy h.c. ii, limited to 36 copies specially bound with extra suites of the plates, of an edition in all of 662 copies. Bentley, Blake Books, 5. All Religions are One (c. 1788) is “a small tractate, perhaps Blake’s first experiment in his illuminated printing, [it] exists in only one copy. It affirms that the Imagination ‘is the true man’... and thus early Blake had completed his revolutionary theory of the nature of man and proclaimed the unity of all true religions.” ((Damon, Blake Dictionary). (Inventory #: 104777)