| 內容簡介 | No other work by William Blake (1757-1827) presents the complexity of his artistic vision as clearly as the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The best known of his illuminated books, this twofold suite explores in illustration and verse the contrasting and complementary natures of youth and maturity. Blake engraved, printed, and colored every copy of his books by hand, making each a unique work of art. Today, twenty-four complete copies of Songs of Innocence and of experience are known. This Octavo Editon pairs, for the first time, one of the earliest and one of the latest copies of this masterwork. Both books are displayed from cover to cover in unprecedented detail and fidelity and are accompanied by transcriptions of Blake's texts and a plate-by-plate comparison feature.<摘錄自媒體封面或內頁> |