Folio Society Hardcover

Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience 

(Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul)

by William Blake

Introduction by Richard Holmes

AS NEW UNREAD condition in SLIPCASE

This edition is based on a facsimile published by the Tate Gallery with color reproductions of the original illustrated verses on the right hand pages and the plain text on the left.

12th Printing 2010

6 3/8 x 4 3/8 x 1/2 inches (a very small book)

110 pages

Full dark red buckram with a design in gold based on Blake's title leaf

William Blake was an English poet, printmaker, and painter who was born in 1757 and died in 1827. 

In 1789, Blake published Songs of Innocence, a collection of 19 poems, and in 1793, he published Songs of Experience, a collection of 28 poems. 

A combined edition entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul appeared in 1794.

The Songs are now often studied for their literary merit alone, but they were originally produced as illuminated books, engraved, hand-printed, and colored by Blake himself.

The text of the poem and the accompanying illustration formed an integrated whole, each adding meaning to the other.

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