City Scenes or a Peep into London
- 1828
1828. London: Darton Harvey and Darton Gracechurch Street, 1828.
Small 8vo, 79 pp., with an engraved title-page and 87 numbered engraved plates three to a page. Original dark green cloth,gilt stamp on upper cover, backstrip titled in gilt,, a little worn, some foxing and spotting in the margins of the plates and text, generally a good copy of a very scarce book. Early ink and pencil signatures of Amelia Nutter, Wellington Road, 1842.
§ First written in 1801 by William Darton, the text was revised by the Taylor sisters in 1806 with illustrations drawn and engraved by Isaac Taylor, reprinted in 1814. Blake's poem "Holy Thursday" appears for the first time on pp. 67-68 in the 1818 printing (with the first two lines changed and without any attribution to Blake), which was enlarged and reissued in 1828 retaining Blake's poem at p.69. Although Ann Taylor is best remembered for her hugely popular poem "My Mother," she and her sister Jane were not above printing other poets' poems as their own, often slightly changed. Bentley, Blake Books, 260 B. See Osborne I, p. 191. See Darton G913(12).
Small 8vo, 79 pp., with an engraved title-page and 87 numbered engraved plates three to a page. Original dark green cloth,gilt stamp on upper cover, backstrip titled in gilt,, a little worn, some foxing and spotting in the margins of the plates and text, generally a good copy of a very scarce book. Early ink and pencil signatures of Amelia Nutter, Wellington Road, 1842.
§ First written in 1801 by William Darton, the text was revised by the Taylor sisters in 1806 with illustrations drawn and engraved by Isaac Taylor, reprinted in 1814. Blake's poem "Holy Thursday" appears for the first time on pp. 67-68 in the 1818 printing (with the first two lines changed and without any attribution to Blake), which was enlarged and reissued in 1828 retaining Blake's poem at p.69. Although Ann Taylor is best remembered for her hugely popular poem "My Mother," she and her sister Jane were not above printing other poets' poems as their own, often slightly changed. Bentley, Blake Books, 260 B. See Osborne I, p. 191. See Darton G913(12).
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Title
City Scenes or a Peep into London
Author
Taylor, Jane, and Ann Taylor Gilbert
Condition
Unknown
Date
1828