Life of William Blake : with selections from his poems and other writings
Alexander Gilchrist (Author), William Blake (Author), Anne Gilchrist, W. J. Linton (Illustrator), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Editor), William Michael Rossetti (Writer of supplementary textual content), James Smetham (Writer of supplementary textual content), Frederic Shields, Samuel Palmer, Macmillan & Co (Publisher), R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor (Printer), Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Print Book, English, 1880
A new and enlarged edition
Macmillan and Co., London, 1880
Blake, Suppl. no. 46
collective biographies
2 volumes (xxi, 431, ix, 383 pages, 64 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), frontispieces, portraits, facsimiles (some color) ; 24 cm
656547
Volume 1. Biography
volume 2. Selections / edited by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Annotated catalogue of Blake's paintings and drawings / by William Michael Rossetti
Descriptive notes of the designs to Young's "Night Thoughts" / by Frederic James Shields
Essay on Blake / by James Smetham
In memoriam F.O. Finch / by Samuel Palmer
Memoir of Alexander Gilchrist / by Anne Gilchrist
Preface signed: Anne Gilchrist
Part of the illustrative material is mounted
"Problem of authorship ... is intricate. D.G. Rossetti's contributions were substantial." Cf. Bentley
"William Michael Rossetti drew up most of the original and revised 'Annotated Lists', but 'Mr. William Haines ... [was responsible for] compiling the list of Blake's engravings'." Cf. Bentley
This edition included 34 new letters to Hayley and the letters to Butts formerly in the appendix were worked into the text. The Selections (Vol. II, pp. 1-200) and the Annotated Lists, except those for the engravings, were revised and expanded. There were a number of additions at the end of Vol. II, as follows: Descriptive notes of the designs to Young's "Night Thoughts" by Frederick James Shields, pp. 289-307; Essay on Blake by James Smetham, pp. 311-351; Francis Oliver Finch. In memoriam / Samuel Palmer, pp. 353-356; Memoir of Alexander Gilchrist / Anne Gilchrist, pp. 359-376. Cf. Bentley
Includes index
Bentley and Nurmi, 1234B