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Born in November 28, 1757 / Died in August 12, 1827 / United Kingdom / English

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BOOKS

  • Poetical Sketches (London: Privately printed, 1783; facsimile, London: William Griggs, 1890).
  • There is No Natural Religion, series a and b (London: Printed by William Blake, 1788?; facsimile, 2 volumes, London: William Blake Trust, 1971).
  • All Religions are One (London: Printed by William Blake, 1788?; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1970).
  • Songs of Innocence (London: Printed by William Blake, 1789); revised and enlarged as Songs of Innocence and of Experience (London: Printed by William Blake, 1794; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1955).
  • The Book of Thel (London: Printed by William Blake, 1789; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1965).
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (London: Printed by William Blake, 1793?; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1960).
  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion (London: Printed by William Blake, 1793; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1959).
  • For Children: The Gates of Paradise (London: Printed by William Blake, 1793); revised and enlarged as For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (London: Printed by William Blake, 1818?; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1968).
  • America. A Prophecy (Lambeth: Printed by William Blake, 1793; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1963).
  • Europe (Lambeth: Printed by William Blake, 1794; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1969).
  • The First Book of Urizen (Lambeth: Printed by William Blake, 1794; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1975).
  • The Song of Los (Lambeth: Printed by William Blake, 1795; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1975).
  • The Book of Los (Lambeth: Printed by William Blake, 1795; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1975).
  • The Book of Ahania (Lambeth: Printed by William Blake, 1795; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1973).
  • Milton (London: Printed by William Blake, 1804 [i.e., 1808?]; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1967).
  • Jerusalem (London: Printed by William Blake, 1804 [i.e., 1820?]; facsimile, London: William Blake Trust, 1951).
  • A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures, Poetical and Historical Inventions. Painted by William Blake in Water Colours, being the Ancient Method of Fresco Painting Restored: and Drawings ... (London: Printed by D. N. Shury, 1809).
  • Illustrations of the Book of Job, in Twenty-One Plates, Invented and Engraved by William Blake (London: Printed by William Blake, 1826); facsimiles: The Illustrations of the Book of Job, edited by Lawrance Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935) and in S. Foster Damon, Blake's Job: William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job (Providence: Brown University Press, 1966).
  • Illustrations of the Book of Job, in Twenty-One Plates, Invented and Engraved by William Blake (London: Printed by William Blake, 1826); facsimiles: The Illustrations of the Book of Job, edited by Lawrance Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935) and in S. Foster Damon, Blake's Job: William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job (Providence: Brown University Press, 1966).
  • Illustrations of the Book of Job, in Twenty-One Plates, Invented and Engraved by William Blake (London: Printed by William Blake, 1826); facsimiles: The Illustrations of the Book of Job, edited by Lawrance Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935) and in S. Foster Damon, Blake's Job: William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job (Providence: Brown University Press, 1966).
  • Blake's Illustrations of Dante. Seven Plates, designed and engraved by W. Blake (London, 1838).

DIGITAL EDITIONS

  • The William Blake Archive, edited by Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, http://www.blakearchive.org

Facsimiles of manuscripts for works not published during Blake's lifetime

 

  • An Island in the Moon [written 1784?] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
  • Tiriel [written 1789?] (London: Oxford University Press, 1967).
  • The Notebooks of William Blake [written circa 1793-1818], edited by David Erdman and Donald Moore (London: Oxford University Press, 1973).
  • Vala, or The Four Zoas [written circa 1796-1807] (London: Oxford University Press, 1963).
  • Pickering Manuscript [written after 1807] (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972).
  • The Writings of William Blake, 3 volumes, edited by Geoffrey Keynes (London: Oxford University Press, 1925); revised as The Complete Writings of William Blake (London: Oxford University Press, 1957; second revision, 1966).
  • The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David Erdman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965; revised, 1982).
  • The Illuminated Blake, Annotated by David Erdman (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1974).
  • William Blake's Writings, 2 vols., ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978).

REPRODUCTIONS OF PICTORIAL WORKS

  • Geoffrey Keynes, ed. Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts Done in Water-Colour by William Blake (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1927).
  • Albert S. Roe, Blake's Illustrations to the Divine Comedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953).
  • Keynes, Engravings by William Blake (Dublin: E. Walker, 1956).
  • Keynes, ed., William Blake's Illustrations of the Bible (London: William Blake Trust, 1957).
  • William Wells and Elizabeth Johnston, William Blake's "Heads of the Poets" (Manchester: City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1969).
  • Irene Taylor, Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971).
  • William Blake's Water Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray (London: William Blake Trust, 1972).
  • Iain Bain, David Chambers, and Andrew Wilton, The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil (London: British Museum Publications, 1977).
  • Pamela Dunbar, William Blake's Illustrations to the Poetry of Milton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980).
  • John Grant, Edward Rose, Michael Tolley, and David Erdman, eds., William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's Night Thoughts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980).
  • Milton Klonsky, Blake's Dante (New York: Harmony Books, 1980).
  • Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).

OTHER

  • Edward Young, The Complaint, and The Consolation; or Night Thoughts, illustrated by Blake (London: R. Edwards, 1797).
  • William Hayley, The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esqr., 3 volumes, includes plates engraved by Blake (Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave for J. Johnson, 1803 [i.e., 1804]).
  • The Grave, A Poem. Illustrated by twelve Etchings Executed by Louis Schiavonetti, From the Original Inventions of William Blake (London: Cromek, 1808); facsimile, in Robert Blair's The Grave Illustrated by William Blake. A Study with a Facsimile, edited by Robert N. Essick and Milton D. Paley (London: Scolar Press, 1982).

LETTERS

  • Letters from William Blake to Thomas Butts 1800-1803, facsimile, edited by Geoffrey Keynes (London: Oxford University Press, 1926).
  • The Letters of William Blake, third edition, revised and amplified, edited by Keynes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980).



The British Museum contains an important collection of Blake's illuminated works, including Blake's notebook and the manuscripts for Tiriel and Vala, or The Four Zoas. The Tate Gallery in London has one of the best collections of Blake's art. Another major collection of illuminated works, including the manuscript for An Island in the Moon, is located in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. In the United States major collections of Blake's works can be found at Harvard, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, the Library of Congress, and the J. Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, which has the Pickering Manuscript

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