Heading: (Blake, William - Trianon Press)
Author: Blake, William
Title: Milton: A Poem
Place Published: [London]
Publisher:[Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust]
Date Published: [1967]
Description: 50 color plates made by the collotype and stencil process. Commentary by Geoffrey Keynes. 27.7x21.5 cm (11x8½"), brown quarter-morocco and feather-marbled boards, top edge gilt; matching slipcase. No. 63 of 380 standard copies from a total edition of 426.Facsimile edition from the Rosenwald copy. "Blake's Milton was the last but one of his Illuminated Books and, with the exception of the final book, Jerusalem, the longest." Appended is a facsimile of the Preface plate which includes what is perhaps Blake's most famous poem, popularly known as Jerusalem (although untitled by the poet). "This Preface calls on the 'Young Men of the New Age' to restore true Art to its proper rank and to renounce war waged according to 'the Greek or Roman Models'. The poem denounces the 'dark Satanic Mills' of contemporary materialism, and calls for the building of Jerusalem, the City of Art, 'in England's green & pleasant Land'." -Geoffrey Keynes, Description and Bibliographical Statement. Bentley, Blake Books 120. Previous owner's return address label on front pastedown.

Only light rubbing to slipcase; spine sunned with a few minor abrasions and a bit of discoloration to morocco; near fine in like slipcase.