Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion

1974. London: Trianon Press, 1974.

Folio, 25 color plates, 8 proofs, and commentary at the end, eight color facsimile trial proofs, twelve pages of text plus an extra suite of fourteen states of plate B, collotype proofs, and a matching guide-sheet and stencil. Original full brown morocco, slipcase. As new.

ß De luxe copy #XXVI of 32 with extra material, proofs, stencil etc. Limited to 558 copies including 32 de luxe copies numbered I-XXXII, 500 regular copies number 1-500, and 26 regular copies lettered A-Z reserved for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust and the publishers. This is a combined facsimile of Lord Cunliffe s copy (copy B) and Kerrison Preston s proofs; the coloring differs markedly from the Stirling copy (copy E) which was the first Trianon Press Blake facsimile published in 1951 (see above). Jerusalem is the longest of Blake's prophetic books and tells of the fall of Albion, Blake's embodiment of man, or the Western World. Bentley, BB, A82.