Research Guides: William Blake Resources (Tri-Co): Swarthmore Special Collections

Swarthmore Special Collections – Early Editions

The poetical works of John Scott, esq.
London : J. Buckland, 1782
Main Author : John Scott
"Part of illustrative matter engraved by William Blake."
Elements of morality: for the use of children with an introductory address to parents
London: Printed by J. Crowder for J. Johnson, 1791
Main Author : Christian Gotthilf Salzmann
Translator : Mary Wollstonecraft
"illustrated with 50 copper plates by William Blake."
The botanic garden: a poem, in two parts
London : Printed for J. Johnson, 1795
Author: Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
"Some of the plates engraved by William Blake."
Original stories from real life: with conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness
London: Printed by J. Johnson ... 1796
Main Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
"Illustrations designed and engraved by William Blake."
The grave: a poem
London : second printing of 1813 ed. printed by T. Bentley
Main Author : Robert Blair
"a poem / illustrated by twelve etchings executed by Louis Schiavonetti, from the original inventions of William Blake, 1808"

Swarthmore Special Collections – Facsimiles

The song of Los
London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1975, 1795.
1975 facsimile of 1794 edition
The book of Thel

London: Published by the Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1965, 1789
1965 facsimile of 1789 edition
For the sexes: the gates of paradise

London : F. Hollyer, 1925
Facsimile of 1793 engraving
Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante

London: privately printed for the National Art-Collections Fund
1922 facsimile edition
Illustrations to Young's Night thoughts

Cambridge, Mass : Printed for Fogg Museum of Art by Press at Harvard College, 1927
1927 Facsimile of Blake's illustrations for Edward Young's poem "Night Thoughts"
William Blake: etchings from his works

London : Chatto and Windus, 1878
10 etchings of Blake's plates, taken by William Scott, 1878.
Thirteen watercolor drawings by William Blake illustrating Paradise lost by John Milton

San Francisco : The Arion Press, 2004
13 facsimiles "printed at full scale in full color from the original works [pen and watercolor] in the collection of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California"
Job, invented & engraved

New York : United Book Guild, 1947
Facsimile of Blake's 1825 illustrations of Book of Job
The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil: with the first Eclogue and the Imitation

London : Nonesuch Press, 1937
20 Facsimiles of 1821 woodcuts
"Twenty woodcuts illustrating Ambrose Philips' Imitation of Eclogue I in the Pastorals of Virgil ...All were engraved by Blake with 3 exceptions which were re-engraved from his designs by another hand."
William Blake's Laocoön: a last testament : with related works--On Homers' poetry and On Virgil, The ghost of Abel

London : Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, London ; 1976
Main Author : Geoffrey Keynes
Facsimiles "of Blake's engraving of the Laocoön group and of his relief etchings, On Homers' poetry and On Virgil, and The ghost of Abel."