There Is No Natural Religion.
TRIANON PRESS.; BLAKE (William).
One of 50 specials
One of 50 special copies (this no. VI) with a set of plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process, also with a guide-sheet and a stencil, inserted loose. 2 volumes. Vol. I: 9 facsimile plates printed in collotype and hand-coloured plus 25 facsimile collotype states of all of the plates, plus 6 colour progressive plates of The Argument , plus a guide-sheet and a stencil of The Argument ; Vol. II: 9 two and three-colour collotype facsimiles plates, plus 22 collotype states of all the plates. Vol. I, 8vo; Vol. II, 4to., original full brown morocco in a marbled paper covered slipcase. London, The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust. 1971
A very good copy of Trianon's faithfully reproduced facsimiles of the smaller (series a) and larger (series b) volumes of There Is No Religion which was Blake's second attempt at deep relief etching on copper. In the second volume there is a good introduction and bibliographical description of this complicated work by Geoffrey Keynes.
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