Books by and about William Blake and the 'Blake circle' including Edward Calvert, John Flaxman, Henry Fuseli, Samuel Palmer and John Varley. Notable for Blake facsimiles, including the Trianon Press series, and contemporary editions of works with engravings by Blake.
Image from SPEC H.9.13
The Library has collected Blake by purchase and donation since its foundation. In 1892 the Liverpool solicitor and MP, A. F. Warr, gave his "delightful and almost complete series of reproductions of William Blake's works" and the Library purchased the 1826 edition of Blake's Job.
In 1906 the Liverpool Courier, reviewing Liverpool University Librarian John Sampson's edition of Blake's Poetical Works, described the "broadening of public taste" in relation to Blake and of "the prominence of the part Liverpool has played in this essentially modern movement".
The Blake collection features on the Special Collections and Archives blog Manuscripts and More in the post William Blake and Liverpool.
