An edition of The marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)

Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer

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Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer
William Blake
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An edition of The marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)

Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer

  • 5.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 35 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker, wrote a sequence of poems titled "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" that mimicked biblical prophesy. Blake, who was mostly ignored during his lifetime, is now regarded as a key influence in the development of Romantic-era poetry and visual art. Blake's deeply held Romantic and revolutionary views are expressed throughout the text.
The theme for the work, which Blake borrowed from Milton's Paradise Lost and Dantes's Inferno, is the narrator's trip to Hell. The entire book is written in prose, with the exception of the Song of Liberty and the Introductory Argument.

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Cover of: The marriage of heaven and hell
The marriage of heaven and hell
1994, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: The marriage of Heaven and Hell
The marriage of Heaven and Hell: in full color
1994, Dover Publications
in English
Cover of: The marriage of heaven and hell
The marriage of heaven and hell
1975, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: The marriage of Heaven and Hell.
The marriage of Heaven and Hell.
1963, University of Miami Press
in English
Cover of: Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer
Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer
1926, Éditions Claude Aveline ...
in French
Cover of: The marriage of heaven and hell
The marriage of heaven and hell
1906, J. W. Luce and company
in English

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Edition Notes

"Tirage limité a 275 exemplaires numérotés a la presse ... 24 exemplaires, nos 2 à et, sur japon à la forme ...". All but 43 copies were destroyed.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., 111D

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy appears to be made up of material from several different nos. of this limited edition work. It includes: the work in translation with illustrations ([67] p.); three sets of the illustrations alone, in colour, on japanese paper (one set has the illustrator's initials on each leaf); one set of the illustrations alone, in black, on chine PC; a set of the original woodcuts of the illustrations showing the three states (in a cream wrapper with title: Bois originaux de René Pottier pour décorer Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer de William Blake); a set of hand-coloured variations of a selection of the illustrator's original illustrations.

Victoria University Library copy includes "Exemplaire No 9".

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Paris
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Blake -- no. 397

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OL19499135M

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