All Religions are One

1970. London: Trianon Press, 1970.

4to, with 10 facsimile leaves, 5 pp. commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, plus 32 pp. of the progressive collotype printings. Full green morocco, near fine with green marbled slipcase.

§ Copy III of 36 de luxe copies. The total edition was of 662 copies including 36 de luxe copies numbered I-XXXVI, 600 regular copies numbered 1-600, and 26 copies lettered A-Z reserved for the trustees of the William Blake Trust and the publishers. 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. (truncated) 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 #: 107369)