Addenda List of Copies
The letter designations given in parentheses are those of the Keynes
Bibliography of 1921 and the Keynes and Wolf
Census of 1953, respectively. (See note 1 above.)
Copies Printed by Blake:
- British Museum copy (B in Bibliography, A in
Census) 100 plates on 100 leaves foliated by Blake 1-100;
arrangement (using Harvard and Mellon [Stirling] copies as standard, not
to disrupt editorial tradition) 1-28, 33-41, 43-46, 42, 29-32, 47-100.
Watermark J Whatman 1818 (20 leaves), 1819
(1
leaf), 1820 (6 leaves) (see note 8.)
- Cunliffe copy (A* in Blake Studies; B* in
Census) 25 plates on 25 leaves, foliated by Blake 1-25.
Watermark J Whatman 1818 in 6 leaves. Red-brown with
watercolor washes. Collection of Lord Cunliffe. (The condition of Plates 1,
2, 3, 4, 7, 14, and 20 was kindly checked by Lord Cunliffe, that of Plate
20 also color photography; and all plates were searched for
numbers.)
- Rinder copy (A, C) 100 plates on 100 leaves, foliated by Blake
1-100; arrangement as in British Museum copy. Watermark J
Whatman 1818, 1819, or 1820. Black,
some
plates touched with sepia and chinese white; green tinting on Plate 16.
Collection of the late Frank Rinder; facsimile in deep etched gravure (Blake
Trust, 1952). (Examined only in this facsimile.) (See postscript.)
- Harvard copy (C, D) 100 plates on 100 leaves foliated by Blake
1-100; arrangement adopted as "standard" in Keynes's list and editions.
Watermark
J Whatman 1820 in 21 leaves. Black, touched with india ink;
some plates lightly washed with brown. Harvard College Library.
- Mellon copy (D, E) 100 plates on 100 leaves, foliated by Blake
1-100; arrangement adopted as "standard." Watermark J Whatman
1820 on 25 leaves. Orange, with elaborate watercolor washes, india
ink, and gold. Collection of Paul Mellon (previously in the collection of
William Stirling); facsimile in color, Blake Trust, 1951 (for bibliographical
purposes this splendid facsimile is less reliable, because of the use of
multiple stencils, than is the simpler photographic facsimile of the Rinder
copy; facial expressions and other nuances not our present concern are also
not always faithful to the original).
- Morgan copy (E, F) 100 plates on 100 leaves, foliated by Blake
1-100; arrangement as in British Museum and Rinder copies (though
posthumously bound in "standard"). Watermark J Whatman
1824 (5 leaves), 1826 (19 leaves, including Plate 36).
Black, with some gray washes and india ink and lighter ink. (Plate 36
["standard" 40] labeled "from another copy.") Pierpont Morgan
Library.
- Isman copy (F, G). The copy which "was believed to be in the
possession of Mr. Felix Isman, New York, in 1921" (Blake
Studies, p. 117) has never been described nor, recently, located. (It
might turn out to be a posthumous copy.) Mr. Isman died in 1943. Today
his widow has no recollection of having seen a copy of
Jerusalem in their library; "Mr. Isman was in the habit of
giving a first edition to a valued friend, as a Christmas present. . . . it was
not in the library when he died."
Copies Printed Posthumously:
- Fitzwilliam copy (G, H) 100 plates on 100 leaves. Watermark
J Whatman 1831 or 1832 in some leaves.
Printed
in red-brown. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
- Rosenwald copy (H, I) 100 plates on 100 leaves. Watermark
J Whatman 1831 or 1832 in some leaves.
Red-brown. Library of Congress, Lessing J. Rosenwald
Collection.
- Rosenbloom copy (I in Blake Studies, J* in
Census) 100 plates on 100 leaves, but with a duplicate Plate
20
in place of Plate 16. Watermark J Whatman 1831 in some
leaves. Red-brown. Collection of Charles J. Rosenbloom.
Single Plates (Designated "Proof" when unnumbered by
Blake):
- Pl. 1 proof in brown & black. Collection of Geoffrey Keynes;
collotype facsimile as frontispiece to 1952 Rinder facsimile.
- Pl. 9 (numbered 25 or 23 on plate) in green with green and
grey-blue washes. Rosenwald collection.
- Pl. 19 proof in blue green. Rosenwald collection.
- Pl. 20 (number 16 incised in upper right corner) in black.
Rosenwald collection.
- Pl. 24 proof (not seen; reproduced in Laurence Binyon,
English Watercolours on loan to Japan, 1929).
- Pl. 25 proof, red-brown with watercolor washes; printed on back
of Europe frontispiece; trimmed to exclude text. Collection
of
Kerrison Preston.
- Pl. 28 proof, black. Watermark Edmead & Pine
1802. Tipped into Morgan copy.
- Pl. 32[46] proof, red brown with pink and blue washes; on back
of Europe title-page; trimmed to picture only. Preston
collection.
- Pl. 37[33] proof, black with blue and grey washes. Keynes
collection.
- Pl. 38[34] proof, black with grey wash. Rosenwald
collection.
- Pl. 38[34] (number 6 incised in corner) green, with black additions
(or smudges). Rosenwald collection.
- (These two 38's may be those listed as "28" in Blake
Studies, p. 115.)
- Pl. 41[37] proof, red-brown with watercolor; on back of
Europe frontispiece; trimmed but including text in scroll.
Preston collection.
- Pl. 45[40] proof, black. Watermark Edmead & Pine
1802. Tipped into Morgan copy.
- Pl. 47 proof, red-brown with color washes; on back of
Europe title-page; trimmed but including line of text beneath
picture.
- Pl. 48 proof, grey. Rosenwald collection.
- Pl. 50 (trace of "19" in corner), black. Rosenwald
collection.
- Pl. 56 proof, black. Watermark Edmead & Pine
1802. Tipped into Morgan copy (not noted in
Census).
- Pl. 58 (trace of numeral in corner?) dark grey, with yellow
watercolor and india ink. Watermark J Whatman 1818.
Rosenwald collection.
- Pl. 78 proof, dark green and black. Rosenwald
collection.
- (Plates 50, 51, 99 listed or mentioned in Blake
Studies,
p. 115, not examined.) (For prints of Pl. 5 & 53 back to back, see
Postscript.)
