TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blake,William
AU  - Gray,Thomas
AU  - Keynes,Geoffrey
TI  - William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray
AV  - ND1942.B55 A4 1972
PY  - 1972///
CY  - Boissia, Clairvaux, Jura, London
PB  - Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, London, Distributed by B. Quaritch
KW  - Blake, William,
KW  - Gray, Thomas,
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Illustrations
N1  - Title page and introductory matter at end of main work in v. 3; Facsimile of a vol. in possession of Paul Mellon containing 116 designs with inlaid pages from Gray's Poems, 1790. The designs were probably begun in 1797; "518 copies ... 12 copies numbered I to XII, in three volumes, full morocco, with an additional portfolio containing a series of progressives showing the stages in the hand-stencil colouring of a single plate, together with original guide-sheets and stencils and other material used in making the facsimile, presented in a matching box. 36 copies numbered 1 to 36, unbound in the French style, in a full morocco portfolio, with an additional portfolio containing technical material ... 352 copies numbered 37 to 388, in three volumes bound in quarter morocco or unbound in the French style in a quarter morocco portfolio ... 100 copies numbered 389 to 488 are reserved for Mr. Paul Mellon. 18 copies numbered A to R are hors commerce"--Final page of v. 3; LC has no. I of the 1st group
ER  -