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| Keywords: Songs of Innocence, copy U object 23 The Voice of the Ancient Bard.jpg en Songs of Innocence copy U object 23 The Voice of the Ancient Bard Copy Information Title Songs of Innocence Origination William Blake author inventor delineator etcher printer Origination Catherine Blake printer Publisher William Blake Place of Publication London Note The place of publication is not recorded in the volume but Blake was living in London at the time of its composition etching and printing Date 1789 Composition Date 1789 Print Date 1789 Note This is probably the first copy of Songs of Innocence Blake printed Number of Objects 31 Note Inserted in this copy is a second posthumous impression of Bentley's plate 9 the first plate of The Little Black Boy This additional plate clearly not part of the book as originally collated by Blake is not included here Object Order 3 2 4 6 7 9-12 15 8 53 24 13 14 20 21 19 26 16 17 25 54 22 23 5 27 18 34-36 Note Although disbound this order of the plates is confirmed by offsets Bentley plate numbers are used unless otherwise stated Object Size ranging between 12 3 x 7 7 cm and 10 9 x 6 3 cm Number of Leaves 31 Leaf Size 17 7 x 12 7 cm Medium relief etching with some white-line etching Printing Style relief Ink Color black Support wove paper Watermark J Whatman Note The watermark appears only in the leaf bearing object 23 Bentley plate 54 Etched Numbers none Penned Numbers none Frame Lines none Binding disbound Note bound c 1818 in half green morocco over marbled boards; disbound probably c 1891 Stab Holes originally stabbed through three holes; c 1818 stabbed through seven Provenance Name Houghton Library Harvard University Date 1950 Dealer none Price gift Note Acquired before 1818 by Robert Balmanno; the New York dealer J W Bouton by 1868; possibly H D Chapin; Edwin William Hooper no later than 1880; his daughter Mrs Greely S Curtis Jr ; her sister Mrs Ward Thoron; given 15 Nov 1950 by Mrs Thoron to Harvard University Present Location The Houghton Library Harvard University Cambridge MA 02138 USA Telephone 617-495-2441 Fax 617-495-1376 URL http //www-hcl harvard edu/houghton/ Department Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Collection Houghton Library Accession Number Typ 6500 34u Viewed on Sun Oct 13 13 36 05 2013 http //www blakearchive org/exist/blake/archive/copyinfo xq copyid s-inn u 2013-02-26 18 36 07 Institution William Blake Archive Creator William Blake PD-old-100 PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Songs of Innocence and Experience - Copy U Songs of Experience - The Voice of the Ancient Bard | ||||
