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English 4168: Major Authors, 1789-1890: William Blake: Primary Sources

Concordances, Catalogues, Commentary

William Blake Exhibition
Materials from the Tate Museum collection, including the Blake Interactive education project.
The Blake Digital Text Project
An online concordance based on Erdman's edition of The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake.

A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake. by Erdman, David V.,
Call Number: PR4146 .A25
Publication Date: 1967
William Blake's Illuminated Books: A Census by Keynes, Geoffrey, and Edwin Wolf, eds.
Call Number: 828 B581Zk
Publication Date: 1953
The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake by Martin Butlin
Call Number: N6797.B57 B87
Publication Date: 1981
The Complete Graphic Work of William Blake by David Bindman
Call Number: NE642.B5 A4 1978B
The Separate Plates of William Blake: a catalogue by Robert N. Essick
Call Number: NE642.B5 A4 1983a
William Blake Book Illustrator: a Bibliography and Catalogue of the Commercial Engravings by Roger R. Easson; Robert N. Essick
Call Number: NE642.B5 E2 (We have only vol. 1.)
Publication Date: 1972
The Illuminated Blake: all of William Blake's illuminated works with a plate-by-plate commentary by William Blake; David V. Erdman
Call Number: NE642.B5 E72
Publication Date: 1974
The Engravings of William Blake. by Russell, Archibald G. B.
Call Number: online and in print: NE642.B5 R8 1968
Publication Date: 1912

William Blake: Poet & Printmaker
Sale catalogues and bibliographies of works by Blake and his contemporaries. From the G.E. Bentley Blake Collection at Victoria University Library.

Blake Books: Annotated Catalogues of His Writings in Illuminated Printing, in Conventional Typography, and in Manuscript and Reprints by Bentley, G. E., Jr.
Call Number: Z8103 .B4 1977
Blake and the Idea of the Book by Joseph S. Viscomi
Call Number: NE642.B5 V57 1993
The English Romantic Poets: a review of research and criticism by Frank Jordan (Editor)
Call Number: PR590 .E5 1985
Section on William Blake by Mary Lynn Johnson, pp. 113-252.

Recommended Editions of the Works of William Blake

The Blake Multimedia Project
Hypertext editions of Blake's illuminated books.
The William Blake Archive
High quality online editions of Blake's works. Text and image searching available.
Blake's Notebook
Online edition from the British Library.

The Notebook of William Blake: A Photographic and Typographic Facsimile by William Blake; David V. Erdman; Donald K. Moore
Call Number: PR4142 .E66
Publication Date: 1973
The Complete Poems by William Blake; Alicia S. Ostriker (Editor); William Blake; Alicia Ostriker (Editor)
Call Number: Online
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake; David V. Erdman (Editor); Harold Bloom (Commentaries by)
Call Number: Online and in print: PR4141 .E7 1982b
Blake Complete Writings with Variant Readings by William Blake; Geoffrey L. Keynes (Editor)
Call Number: PR4141 .K42 1972
Blake's Poetry and Designs by William Blake; Mary Lynn Johnson; John E. Grant
Call Number: PR4141.5 .J64 2008
William Blake: the Complete Illuminated Books by David Bindman; William Blake
Call Number: PR4142 .B78 2000
We also have an earlier edition, published as 6 separate volumes with varying call numbers.
The Letters of William Blake with Related Documents by William Blake; Geoffrey L. Keynes (Editor)
Call Number: PR4146 .A4 1980
The Romantic Age: the English Letters Collection
Call Number: Available on Reference workstation. Inquire at the Reference Desk.
An online edition of the letters of William Blake, among other English Romantic authors.

Texts from the time of Blake

British Periodicals
Offers facsimile page images and searchable full text.
Date coverage: 17th - early 20th century.
ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Contains English-language titles and editions based on the English Short Title Catalogue, made available online over the course of the next two years.
Date Coverage: 1701-1800

Maximum Users: Unlimited

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Search Guide: http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?locID=morenetuomcolum&ste=24
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Provides access to nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.
Date Coverage: 1790-1919

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Help: http://c19index.chadwyck.com/help/contents.jsp
Literature Online
The Texts section contains full text of more than 350,000 works of poetry, drama and prose. In the advanced search mode you can define a corpus by author, nationality, gender, time period, etc. and then search within that group of texts.
Free account can be created for personalization.
Formerly known as LION
Date Coverage: Varies by section
Maximum Users: 4
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License Terms: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/search/databases/proquestlicense.htm

Hathi Trust Digital Library
A collection of digitized texts from many libraries. Full text search, plus the ability to limit by publication dates, languages, etc. The catalog feature uses standard library subject headings.

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