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The Four Zoas: A Photographic Facsimile of the Manuscript With Commentary on the Illuminations - Hardcover
This photographic facsimile and restoration of the pictorial details of illuminated manuscript of William Blake's great epic prophecy, Vala or The Four Zoas, now makes the whole work more available than it has ever been - a manuscript so reased and scribbled over, expecially where the drawings represented what Blake called "naked beauty displayed," that critical reading of the designs, and hence of the related text, has been conjectural and incomplete. Since the work itself is, in some senses, incomplete - Blake himself seems never to have made a "fair copy" that would indicate his final intentions - any attempt to deal exhaustively with the interaction of illuminations and text would require volumes of explication and speculation. The present commentary, without offering a full and continuous reading of the work, calls attention to all the details that can be made out, supplementing the facsimile with tracings and sketches in which faint or hidden lines have been enhanced and restored through various methods, including infarared photography. -From the dust jacket
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0838750834
- ISBN 13 9780838750834
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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The Four Zoas by William Blake | A Photographic Facsimile of the Manuscript with Commentary on the Illuminations
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Bucknell University Press | Associated University Presses, Lewisburg, PA
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 9-1/4" x 12-1/4", 258pp incl. front matter. Sewn binding in black cloth-covered boards. Bottom fore corners slightly bumped. Minor shelf wear, some rubbing to jacket. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked. NOTE that this is a larger volume, and there may be extra shipping charges for orders outside North America. Seller Inventory # 003229
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