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| 005 | $ 20220905172521.8 | ||
| 245 | 0 | 0 | $a Compositions From The Works Days And Theogony Of Hesiod. Designed By John Flaxman, R.A. P.S. Engraved By William Blake. |
| 246 | 1 | # | $a Theogony |
| 246 | 1 | # | $a Works and Days |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Theogony Works & Days & Days Of Hesiod |
| 260 | # | # | $b Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, $a London, $c Jan. 1, 1817. |
| 300 | # | # | $a 37 pl. (incl. t.pl.); $c 365 mm. |
| 500 | # | # | $a The Academy's second copy is preceded by one leaf of letter-press reading 'The Theogony Works & Days & Days Of Hesiod Engraved From The Compositions Of John Flaxman R.A. Sculptor, London.' |
| 508 | # | # |
$a No plate is signed. Each carries the publishers' imprint of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, and the date. |
| 510 | 0 | # |
$a R.N. Essick, William Blake's commercial book illustrations (1991), no. LI; G.E. Bentley, Blake books (1977), no. 456. G.E. Bentley, 'Blake's Hesiod', in The Library, 5th ser. 20 (1965), p.315-20; D. and E. Panofsky, Pandora's box (1965), p.92-105; G.E. Bentley, 'Blake's engravings and his friendship with Flaxman', in Studies in bibliography, 12 (1959), p.161-88. On Flaxman's outline illustrations generally see the bibliographic note on Compositions From The Tragedies of Aeschylus Designed By Iohn Flaxman (1795). |
| 520 | # | # |
$a The publication-date of 'Jan. 1. 1817' appears on the title-plate and plates 2, 12-21, 24, 28-37. The earlier publication-date of 'November 1. 1816' is carried by plates 3-11, 22, 23, 25-27. (The Academy's second copy is preceded by a leaf of letter-press reading 'The Theogony Works & Days & Days Of Hesiod Engraved From The Compositions Of John Flaxman R.A. Sculptor, London'. As this has the appearance of a divisional title-page and the second copy is bound with Compositions From The Tragedies Of Aeschylus, Designed By Iohn Flaxman ... (London, 1831), perhaps this second copy is an 1831 reprint.) Plates 1-4, 6-20 represent passages from Hesiod's Works and Days; plates 5, 21-37, passages from his Theogony. All are captioned with a quotation from Elton's English translation, and usually with a title also. For the engravings Blake employs a stipple technique; which gives them a softer appearance on the page than the earlier engravings by Piroli of Flaxman's designs for Homer and Aeschylus. |
| 561 | # | # |
$a [First copy:] Acquired between 1816 or 1817 and 1821. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1821. [Second copy:] |
| 563 | # | # |
$a [First copy:] 20th-century half calf, grey cloth-covered boards; gilt-decorated spine, lettered, 'Flaxmans Hesiod' and 'R.A.' [Second copy:] 19th-century marbled-papered boards, rebacked and recornered in calf in 1988; black morocco spine-label lettered 'Compositions From The Tragedies Of Aeschylus', spine lettered '1831'. [Bound with one other.] |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Flaxman |
| 653 | # | # | $a Mythology, Greek - Gods, Greek - Iconography |
| 653 | # | # | $a Agriculture - Greece |
| 653 | # | # | $a Drawings - Great Britain - 19th century - Neoclassical |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Greek poetry |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Pictorial works - Illustrated books - Stipple engravings - Great Britain - 19th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Flaxman, John $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Blake, William $d 1757-1827. $e engraver. |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Elton $d 1778-1853. $e translator. |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Hesiod |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown $e publisher. |
| 852 | 8 | # | $d [First copy:] 1821: C-5-04. |
| 852 | 8 | # | $d [Second copy:] |