William Blake,

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936, Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) · 1910 · London, Duckworth & Co.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. [1910?] · 30 pictures

G. K. Chesterton's 1910 critical study of the poet and painter William Blake, published in London by Duckworth and in New York by E.P. Dutton, written for general readers and collectors of Blake. Its reproductions are Blake's own relief etchings and drawings, rendered as halftone plates with dense handwritten-style text woven into the designs. A designer could draw on their swirling contour lines, sinuous figures, and cloud-bordered text panels as models for mystical, romantic-era imagery and lettering set within illustration.

Blake, william

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