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English: Songs of Innocence, copy U object 23 The Voice of the Ancient Bard

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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

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Alternative names	W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
Description	English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death	28 November 1757	12 August 1827
Location of birth/death	London	London
Work location	London; Felpham
Authority file	: Q41513 VIAF: 54144439 ISNI: 000000012096135X ULAN: 500012489 LCCN: n78095331 NLA: 35019221 WorldCat

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Object ID: PUBLIC"-//University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill::Carolina Digital Library and Archives::The William Blake Archive//NONSGML(UK::houghton::Arch. G d.53::Songs of Innocence, copy U::Object 23)//EN"

Title: Songs of Innocence Object 23 Bentley 54 Erdman 54 Keynes 54 Origination: William Blake author, inventor, delineator, etcher, printer, Origination: Catherine Blake printer Publisher: William BlakeLondon Publication Date: 1789 Date of Composition: 1789 Print Date: 1789 Present Location and Contact Information

  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

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  Film Stock: Kodak ektachrome 64T EPY
  Generation: first
  Institution: The Houghton Library, Harvard University
  Shoot Date: March 1998
  color positive
  Source Dimensions
     Width:  6.3 cm
     Height:  11.0 cm
  April 26 1998
  Scanning Technician: C. Giordano
  Item type: 4x5 transparency
  Hardware: Microtek Scanmaker 5
  Software: Scan Wizard 3.1.2 PPC
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        Height:  10.33 cm
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