MARC Record from University of Toronto

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100 1 $aBlair, Robert,$d1699-1746.
245 14 $aThe grave :$ba poem /$cby Robert Blair ; with illustrations, from designs by William Blake.
260 $aWest Orange, New Jersey :$bAlbert Saifer Publisher,$cReprinted 1983.
300 $axiii, 38 p., [12] leaves of plates :$bill., port. ;$c27 cm.
500 $aAdded t.p., engraved and illustrated: The grave : a poem by Blair with illustrations from designs by Wm. Blake. 1847.
500 $aA reprint of the 1858 edition which was a reissue of the 1847 edition, it included the Advertisement to the London edition by R.H. Cromek (p. [vii]-viii); remarks by Henry Fuseli (p. ix-x); an essay entitled: Of the designs by B.H. Malkin (p. [35]-38); a Biographical sketch of Robert Blair ([xi]-xiii); and added a biography of William Blake compiled chiefly from Cunningham (1830) (p. [v]-vi), and Phillips's portrait of Blake from the 1808 ed.; but omitted Blake's dedicatory poem, "To the Queen".
500 $aIn the 1858 edition the plates were reduced to about a quarter of their original size and were re-engraved with the inscription "Wm Blake del., A.L. Dick sc." This 1983 reprint is a poor reproduction of the plates with faint inscriptions.
500 $aThe order and position of the plates in the 1858 edition are slightly altered. As in the 1847 edition Plate 3, "The meeting of a Family in Heaven", is omitted, and the genitals of the naked gentlemen in plates 1 & 8 are decorously covered with filmy drapery.
534 $pImprint of original:$cNew York : Stanford & Delisser, 1858.
541 $cGift to Victoria University Library.$aBentley, G.E., Jr.$d2005/10/01.
600 10 $aBlair, Robert,$d1699-1746.
600 10 $aBlake, William,$d1757-1827.
700 1 $aBlake, William,$d1757-1827.
830 0 $aBlake ;$vno. 691
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