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Illuminated Books of William Blake, Volume 6 : The Urizen Books by William Blake (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPrinceton University Press

ISBN-100691001464

ISBN-139780691001463

eBay Product ID (ePID)525099

Product Key Features

Book TitleIlluminated Books of William Blake, Volume 6 : the Urizen Books

Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicIndividual Artists / General, General

Publication Year1998

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Poetry

AuthorWilliam Blake

Book SeriesBlake Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight31.1 Oz

Item Length12 in

Item Width9 in

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Series Volume Number6

Volume NumberVol. 6

Table Of ContentPREFACE by David Bindman, General Editor 6 FOREWORD 7 CITATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS 8 BLAKE'S URIZEN BOOKS: Introduction 9 THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN Themes and Contexts 19 The Designs 25 Text and Reproduction 61 Supplementary Illustrations 118 Notes to Blake's Text 128 Variants 144 Bibliographical Description 147 Notes and Tables on Variant Copies of Urizen 148 THE BOOK OF AHAMA Themes and Contexts 153 The Designs 160 Text and Reproduction 165 Supplementary Illustrations 178 Notes to Blake's Text 184 Bibliographical Description 191 THE BOOK OF LOS Themes and Contexts 195 The Designs 202 Text and Reproduction 205 Supplementary Illustrations 216 Notes to Blake's Text 218 Bibliographical Description 222 WORKS CITED 225

SynopsisThe last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed The Continental Prophecies and The Urizen Books in the early 1790s, capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts, comprehensive notes and commentaries, and detailed interpretations of the designs. The Urizen Books , made up of "Urizen," "The Book of Los," and "Ahania," describes the dissemination of the autocratic mythology of Urizen, Blake's inflexibly rationalist and myopic law-giver. These books stand as the author's sensible and considered response to the events of his time. The illuminated text of "Urizen" and the ten full-page illustrations from copy D in the British Museum, never before reproduced, represent a tour de force in Blake's specialist process of color printing. These volumes complete the six-part series of William Blake's Illuminated Books, including Jerusalem , Songs of Innocence and of Experience , The Early Illuminated Books , and Milton, A Poem , all published by Princeton University Press.