Songs of Innocence and of Experience

No book-club editions exist for the illuminated work. The documented tells are of a different kind: (1) posthumous impressions pulled from Blake's plates after 1827, recorded in the Keynes/Bentley census and not to be confused with lifetime copies; (2) the 1839 Pickering and Newbery letterpress edition, which reproduces none of Blake's artwork and whose arrangement departs radically from Blake's own — one analysis found roughly 93% of the ordering altered, with forty-one changes to the poems' enumeration; (3) the Trianon Press/Blake Trust facsimiles of 1954-55 and the Manchester Etching Workshop reproductions of 1983, all of which are explicitly identified in their colophons; and (4) modern trade reprints such as the Oxford/Keynes and Princeton Illuminated Books volumes. Any copy offered as an original illuminated Blake that is not matched to a lettered copy in the Blake Archive/Bentley census should be treated as a facsimile or reproduction.