Heading: (Blake, William - Trianon Press)
Author: Blake, William
Title: Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Place Published: [London]
Publisher:[Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust]
Date Published: [1974]
Description: 25 color plates, 8 proofs, and 9 pp. commentary by Geoffrey Keynes. Includes an extra suite of twelve states of plate 23 with a matching guide-sheet and stencil plus 4 additional states of various plates (title page/plate 2, plate 9, plate 14, and plate 18). 36.7x26.3 cm (14½x10½"). Deluxe copy bound in brown full morocco and containing a set of plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process and a guide-sheet and stencil, publisher's leather-lipped feather-marbled paper-covered slipcase. No. XXII of XXXII deluxe copies from a total edition of 558.Facsimile of the Lord Cunliffe copy. "The Trustees of the William Blake Trust initiated their series of facsimiles of Blake's Illuminated Books in 1950 by publishing a facsimile of the Stirling copy of Jerusalem. This copy is the only one known to have been completed by Blake in colour, but we were aware that there was another coloured version of the first twenty-five plates, owned by Lord Cunliffe. These, printed in a light red-brown ink, were painted in delicate water-colour washes, less brilliant than in the Stirling copy, but are quite as beautiful, and a few have variations of significance. There are six pages with Whatman's watermark dated 1818, whereas the only date appearing in the watermark on the pages of the Stirling copy is 1820, indicating that the Cunliffe set is almost certainly an earlier version." - Geoffrey Keynes, Commentary and Bibliographical History. Includes prospectus. Previous owner's return address label on front pastedown.

Light rubbing to slipcase; spine sunned slightly, a few minor scuffs to morocco; prospectus taped to front free endpaper; near fine in like slipcase.