William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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This reproduction in the original size of William Blake's Illuminated Book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell with an Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes is published by Oxford University Press London & New York in association with The Trianon Press, Paris.

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‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ was Blake’s first full-scale attempt to present his philosophic message, and includes both the ‘Proverbs of Hell’ - a distillation of timely Blakean wisdom - and the ‘Song of Liberty’.

Only nine copies of ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ are known to exist. The version chosen here for reproduction, one of the two copies in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is considered to be the finest. The volume has been printed in France by the Trianon Press, the firm responsible for the beautiful Oxford Paperbacks edition of ‘The Songs of Innocence and of Experience’ and for producing on behalf of the William Blake Trust hand-couloured facsimiles of the corpus of Blake’s ‘Illuminated Books’.

The 27 plates are reproduced by six and seven-colour offset in the same size as the originals, and they are of an accuracy and delicacy which Blake himself would have admired. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, doyen of Blake scholars and editor of the poet’s ‘Complete Writings’ [Oxford Paperbacks 190], has written the introduction and a brief commentary on each of the plates. The volume is unique in that for the first time this most important work will be available to a large public in the form in which Blake intended it to be read.

The excellence of the reproductions and Blake’s appeal for our generation make this a book that not only students of literature but any enthusiast of Blake’s art, or lover of fine printing, will want to own.