"'This is an excellent scholarly edition of one of Blake's most fascinating works, likely to become the defining text for generations to come. No one knows as much about Blake's work in this period as Michael Phillips and he uses his knowledge of the text, its context, and Blake's printing techniques to open up the question of what Blake thought he was doing with The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.' Professor John Mee 'This edition to one of Blake's most potent and provocative books will give great pleasure both to Blake enthusiasts and to those new to his work.' Tracy Chevalier"
No work has challenged its readers like Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. His ‘Proverbs of Hell’ have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of these. Most extraordinary is the revolutionary method of its making. The Bodleian Library copy is one of the first that Blake printed using the method he called ‘Illuminated Printing’ and the only work in which he signifies its importance.
This new edition includes a complete facsimile of the work, together with a transcript, and a plate-by-plate guide to text, the interlinear figures, and the larger designs, supplied in the commentary. Drawings from Blake’s Manuscript Notebook used as a basis for the designs together with working proof impressions are reproduced in this volume, showing how the work evolved.
In a special section, the same plate from each of the other eight surviving copies is also reproduced to show how over a period of more than 30 years Blake altered the way each copy was finished. The introduction discusses the work’s literary and historical background, the printing process used to produce it and the question of why the work was published without an imprint identifying the author and printer.
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'This is an excellent scholarly edition of one of Blake's most fascinating works, likely to become the defining text for generations to come.'
Professor John Mee
"'This is an excellent scholarly edition of one of Blake's most fascinating works, likely to become the defining text for generations to come. No one knows as much about Blake's work in this period as Michael Phillips and he uses his knowledge of the text, its context, and Blake's printing techniques to open up the question of what Blake thought he was doing with The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.' Professor John Mee 'This edition to one of Blake's most potent and provocative books will give great pleasure both to Blake enthusiasts and to those new to his work.' Tracy Chevalier"
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'Phillips has navigated his way with great skill through the problems of chronology, textual unity, technique, contemporary context and significance of Blake's strikingly witty, sardonic, quirky, cryptic product of his unique combination of text and illustration in his illuminated books.'
Martin Butlin
‘This is an excellent scholarly edition of one of Blake's most fascinating works, likely to become the defining text for generations to come. No one knows as much about Blake's work in this period as Michael Phillips and he uses his knowledge of the text, its context, and Blake's printing techniques to open up the question of what Blake thought he was doing with The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.’ Professor John Mee
‘This edition to one of Blake's most potent and provocative books will give great pleasure both to Blake enthusiasts and to those new to his work.’ Tracy Chevalier
Les mer
'Phillips has navigated his way with great skill through the problems of chronology, textual unity, technique, contemporary context and significance of Blake's strikingly witty, sardonic, quirky, cryptic product of his unique combination of text and illustration in his illuminated books.' Martin Butlin 'This is an excellent scholarly edition of one of Blake's most fascinating works, likely to become the defining text for generations to come. No one knows as much about Blake's work in this period as Michael Phillips and he uses his knowledge of the text, its context, and Blake's printing techniques to open up the question of what Blake thought he was doing with The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.' Professor John Mee 'This edition to one of Blake's most potent and provocative books will give great pleasure both to Blake enthusiasts and to those new to his work.' Tracy Chevalier
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ISBN
9781851243419
Publisert
2011-04-11
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Bodleian Library
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792 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
1, U, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
184
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