First Book of Urizen

Page images - pictures and text - from William Blake’s 1794 “First Book of Urizen” using the copy helpd by the Library of Congress in the US; they published a digital fac-simile. The book is in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. I have cropped the images so that only the actual printed part is here; originally the images were printed onto much larger paper. I also enlarged the images somewhat and did some simple colour correction. The smallest size image over 500 pixels (usually 600 or so pixels high) is the original size.

Oddly, the Library of Congress copy appears to be lacking some text. Since the page numbers are continuous, perhaps the pages were numbered later? I have supplied the missing text.

page view

1.—Title page: The Book of Urizen The Book of URIZEN [more...] 359x500 149K, 443x617 217K, 664x925 385K, 885x1233 559K	2.—Preludium to the book of Urizen PRELUDIUM TO the book of URIZEN [more...] 330x500 140K, 455x690 252K, 682x1034 439K, 909x1379 606K
3.—Chapter I of Blake’s Book of Urizen Chap: I [more...] 349x500 89K, 419x600 84K, 441x631 257K, 661x946 437K, 881x1261 606K	4.—Urizen kneels. A full-page illustration of a naked man kneeling; Urizen himself, I presume; he crouches naked on one knee, his long white beard reaching down to lie on the ground next to his bare right foot. The background presumably shows the thunderous weather. There is no text on this page; I append some text that [...] [more...] 367x500 69K, 473x645 207K, 709x967 407K, 945x1289 570K
5.—The Book Revealed Urizen (?) holds a giant open book inscribed with strange symbols; the text is as follows: [more...] 369x500 90K, 469x636 285K, 625x847 427K, 937x1271 682K	6.—Urizen in the Womb-like Globe Urizen floats naked in the darkness. Full-page illustration without text. 350x500 50K, 457x652 134K, 686x978 261K, 914x1304 356K

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