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Illustrations of the book of Job : being all the water-colour designs, pencil drawings and engravings reproduced in facsimile

Title: Illustrations of the book of Job : being all the water-colour designs, pencil drawings and engravings reproduced in facsimile / by William Blake ; with an introduction by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes.
Author: Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Publication: New York : The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP+ (Blake, W. Illustrations 1935) 85-149	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	MEM+ B636bi (Blake, W. Illustrations of the Book of Job. 1935)	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

1 case ([7], 61 p., [110] leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.); 41 cm.

Uniform Title

Bible. Job. English. Selections. 1935.

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Note

Printed by John Johnson, University Press, Oxford, Oxfordshire (text) and Emery Walker Ltd. (facsims.).
Engravings originally published 1826 (dated 1825).
Issued in 6 parts (fascicles), in case. Each part in the original gray stiff paper covers, with mounted title label.
"The number of designs in the water-colour sets is twenty-one; there are twenty-four pencil sketches, but two of these are first studies and one was not used. The number of engraved plates ... is twenty-two, a title-page with a design of seven angels being added to this series"--P. 13.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

fasc. no. 1. Introduction: The history of the designs / by Geoffrey Keynes. The interpretation / by Geoffrey Keynes. The variations in the designs / by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes. The place of the New Zealand set / by Laurence Binyon. The water-colours, the pencil drawings, and the engravings / by Geoffrey Keynes. Reproductions of the engravings : a list / by Geoffrey Keynes. The stage version / by Geoffrey Keynes -- fasc. no. 2. The Butts set of water-colours in the Pierpont Morgan Library -- fasc. no. 3. The Linnell set of water-colours in the possession of Mr. Grenville L. Winthrop and others -- fasc. no. 4. The pencil drawings in the possession of Mr. T.H. Riches -- fasc. no. 5. The New Zealand set of water-colours in the possession of Mr. Philip Hofer -- fasc. no. 6. The engravings from the proof impressions of the prints.

Call Number

Arents BIP+ (Blake, W. Illustrations 1935) 85-149

LCCN

35034247

OCLC

6624607
NYPG85-B36757

Author

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Title

Illustrations of the book of Job : being all the water-colour designs, pencil drawings and engravings reproduced in facsimile / by William Blake ; with an introduction by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes.

Imprint

New York : The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

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Added Author

Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943.

Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982.

Added Title

Bible. Job. English. Selections. 1935.

Research Call Number

Arents BIP+ (Blake, W. Illustrations 1935) 85-149

MEM+ B636bi (Blake, W. Illustrations of the Book of Job. 1935)

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