William Blake

The Complete Illuminated Books

David Bindman

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Thames & Hudson
01 March 2001

Prints & printmaking; Individual artists, art monographs; Illustration; Poetry

In his 'illuminated' books, William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To have Blake's great prophetic poems - Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, for example - in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them in Blake's own medium, with his sublime and exhilarating colours.

This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blake's twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blake's text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman.

By: David Bindman
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 297mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 2.160kg
ISBN: 9780500282458
ISBN 10: 0500282455
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 01 March 2001
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Bindman is a noted Blake scholar.

Reviews for William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books

Blake was not just a poet; nor was he just a book publisher. He was also an artist who developed a unique method of etching in relief so that text and illustration could be mixed on the page. Each book of his poetry was unique, illustrated with his brilliantly distinctive pictures, varying slightly in colour, page order, and sometimes even text. The processes were laborious but the results magical, and in this collection of the complete texts, the reproductions do real justice to the beauty of the original pages. For any Blake fans, at last this is an affordable way to own high-quality reproductions of his beautiful illustrations, and to see his poems in the contexts he placed them. (Kirkus UK)