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1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake

1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake

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$135 USD - $135 USD
$135 USD
$135 USD - $135 USD
$135 USD

Author: William Blake. 
Title: Songs of Innocence.
Publisher: New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1926. Printed and made in Great Britain.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 10 x 7 inches.
Pages: Unpaginated.
Binding: Attractive and very good, elegant publisher’s black cloth binding, richly decorated with an intricate gilt border design on the front board and gilt lettering along the spine (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.  A beautiful and restrained design evoking Blake’s own sense of harmony between art and poetry. 
Content: Near fine content (bright, tight and clean, rare light toning - as shown, exceptionally clean and crisp throughout, free of inscriptions, printed on thick cream wove paper - as shown). The edition reproduces the original illuminated pages of Blake’s Songs of Innocence in full colour, based on the copy held by the British Museum.
Illustrations: Full-colour facsimile reproductions of Blake’s hand-colored relief etchings, including Spring, The Blossom, Infant Joy, and The Little Boy Lost. Each plate faithfully captures the soft colour palette and lyrical ornamentation characteristic of Blake’s original illuminations. Complete.

Estimate: (USD 150 – 200).

The book: A beautiful 1926 facsimile of Songs of Innocence, one of William Blake’s most celebrated illuminated works, reproduced from the original copy in the British Museum. First issued by Minton, Balch & Co., this edition faithfully conveys the delicacy and luminous colour of Blake’s visionary artistry.

Originally printed and hand-colored by Blake himself in 1789, Songs of Innocence represents the purest expression of his mystical vision of childhood, divine love, and the spiritual unity of nature and humanity. In this volume, Blake’s fusion of poetic verse and intricate illustration anticipates the modern artist’s book, combining text and image into a single, living art form.

This 1926 facsimile, printed in Great Britain, marks an important early 20th-century effort to preserve Blake’s unique illuminated printing technique. Each plate—vivid yet gentle in hue—captures the spirit of Blake’s genius, making this an exquisite collectible for admirers of poetry, art, and book design alike.

The author: William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, painter, and visionary whose works transcend conventional artistic boundaries. His Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience explore the dual states of human existence—innocence and experience—through a blend of lyric simplicity and profound mysticism. Though largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now regarded as one of the greatest figures of English Romanticism and a pioneer of modern visual poetry.

Illustrations: Blake’s own designs and engravings, here reproduced in colour facsimile, combine ethereal figures, flowing foliage, and symbolic creatures that mirror the rhythms of his verse. His technique of illuminated printing—etching both image and text on copper plates and hand-tinting each copy—was revolutionary, uniting the arts of painting, poetry, and printing into a single spiritual act.