{"product_id":"william-blake-complete-illuminated-books-the-complete-illuminated-books-9780500282458","title":"William Blake: Complete Illuminated Books: The Complete Illuminated Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"If you know Blakes poems youre getting only halfor rather none ofthe picture.\"The New York Times In his Illuminated Books  William Blake combined text and imagery on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle Ages. For Blake  religion and politics  intellect and emotion  mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology  and his methods of conveying it were integral to its meaning. There is no comparison with reading books such as Jerusalem  America  and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in Blakes own medium  infused with his sublime and exhilarating colors. Tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text  flames appear to burn up the page  and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death  destruction  and liberation. Blakes hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies and none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now  for the first time  the plates from the William Blake Trusts Collected Edition have been brought together in a single volume  with transcripts of the texts and an introduction by the noted scholar David Bindman.  Includes: Jerusalem; Songs of Innocence and of Experience; All Religions are One; There is No Natural Religion; The Book of Thel; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Visions of the Daughters of Albion; America a Prophecy; Europe a Prophecy; The Song of Los Milton a Poem; The Ghost of Abel; On Homers Poetry and On Virgil; Laocoon; The First Book of Urizen; The Book of Ahania; The Book of Los. 400 color illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665911111733,"sku":"ByrdShop_0500282455","price":78.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780500282458.jpg?v=1782413949","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/william-blake-complete-illuminated-books-the-complete-illuminated-books-9780500282458","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}