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William Blake—poet, printmaker, artist—drew inspiration from the Bible throughout his life. Shortly before his death in 1827, he began an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Genesis, revisiting such key themes as creation, division, and forgiveness. Blake was also concerned with questions of biblical interpretation: his two depictions of the creation of Eve, for instance, demonstrate his engagement with theories of Genesis as a composite text. This landmark edition of Blake’s Genesis provides the first full-size color reproduction of the Huntington Library’s manuscript. Blake completed 11 pages of text decorated with pencil and watercolor designs, including two vibrantly colored title pages. Blake’s unfinished pages offer rare insights into his process of composition, such as the way in which he conceived of and worked up his designs from preliminary sketches. Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick’s detailed critical commentary considers the way in which Blake read his Genesis, Blake’s relationship with patron John Linnell, and the iconography of Blake’s designs and their relation to earlier works.
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Mark Crosby is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast. Robert N. Essick, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Riverside, is the author of numerous books on William Blake.
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Genesis: William Blake's Last Illuminated Work
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Nice copy. Green cloth covers with gilt title. Contains scans of Blake's manuscript, a transcription, a list of differences with the Genesis story in the King James Bible and commentary. Seller Inventory # 043050
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First edition thus. Large folio (17-1/2" x 12-3/4"). (8)pp. + 11 leaves of color facsimiles + 58pp. Index. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Some faint scratch marks on front cover, otherwise a fine copy. William Blake drew inspiration from the Bible throughout his life. Shortly before his death in 1827, he began an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Genesis, revisiting such key themes as creation, division, and forgiveness. This edition of Blake's Genesis provides a full-size reproduction of the Huntington Library's manuscript. (OCLC) Contents: 1: The manuscript -- William Blake's Genesis manuscript -- Transcription of Blake's Genesis manuscript -- Notes to the transcription -- Substantive differences between Blake's Genesis manuscript and the King James Bible -- 2: Commentary -- Foreword, by John Murdoch -- Blake's illuminated manuscript of Genesis / Robert R. Wark -- Commentary by the editors -- Blake and the Genesis tradition -- Blake's patron, John Linnell -- The manuscript -- Notes to the editor's commentary -- Index to part 2. (OCLC). Seller Inventory # 51583
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Hardcover. Condition: New. William Blake--poet, printmaker, artist--drew inspiration from the Bible throughout his life. Shortly before his death in 1827, he began an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Genesis, revisiting such key themes as creation, division, and forgiveness. Blake was also concerned with questions of biblical interpretation: his two depictions of the creation of Eve, for instance, demonstrate his engagement with theories of Genesis as a composite text. This landmark edition of Blake's Genesis provides the first full-size color reproduction of the Huntington Library's manuscript. Blake completed 11 pages of text decorated with pencil and watercolor designs, including two vibrantly colored title pages. Blake's unfinished pages offer rare insights into his process of composition, such as the way in which he conceived of and worked up his designs from preliminary sketches. Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick's detailed critical commentary considers the way in which Blake read his Genesis, Blake's relationship with patron John Linnell, and the iconography of Blake's designs and their relation to earlier works. Seller Inventory # 97753