The Visionary hand: Essays for the study of William Blake's art and aesthetics

Large 8vo. xviii, 558 pp, list of 164 b&w illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, Part I. Blake's Techniques of Relief Etching -- Sources and Experiments: from J. T. Smith, Nollekens and his Times (1828); from Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Blake (1863); Geroge Cumberland, "New Mode of Painting" (1784); George Cumberland, Letter to His Brother (1784); from Abraham Rees, the Cyclopaedia (1819); from Robert Dossie, The Handmaid to the Arts (1764); Ruthven Todd, "The Techniques of William Blake's Illuminated Painting" (1948). Part II. Critical Essays on Blake's Art and Aesthetics: Laurence Binyon, "The Engravings of William Blake and Edward Calvert" (1917); Anthony Blunt, Blake's 'Ancient of Days': The Symbolism of the Compasses" (1938); Allan R. Brown, "Blake's Drawings for the Book of Enoch" (1940); C. H. Collins Baker, "The Sources of Blake's Pictorial Expression" (1941); Piloo Nanavutty, "A Title Page in Blake's Illustrated Genesis Manuscript" (1947); Northrop Frye, "Poetry and Design in William Blake" (1951); David V. Erdman, "The Dating of William Blake's Engravings" (1952); Hazaard Adams, "The Blakean Aesthetic' (1954); Albert S. Roe, "The Eidetic and the Borrowed Image of Blake's Theory and Practice of Art" (1964); Martin Butlin, "Blake's 'God Judging Adam' Rediscovered" (1965); Edward J. Rose, "'A Most Outrageous Demon': Blake's Case Against Rubens" (1969); W. J. T. Mitchell, "Poetic and Pictorial Imagination in Blake's The Book of Urizen" (1969); Thomas H. Helmstadter, "Blake's Night Thoughts: Interpretations of Edqard Young" (1970); John E. Grand, "Blake's Designs for L'Allegro and Il Penseroso" (1971); Judith Rhodes, "Blake's Designs for LAllegro and Il Penseroso: Thematic Relationships in Diagram" (1971); Robert Simmons and Janet Warner, "Blake's Arlington Court Picture; The Moment of Truth" (1971); etc. First Edition, 1973. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and illustrated endpapers.