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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 153519, member: 56&quot;]This is the only book I found under the “Double Elephant Folio &amp; Quarto Co.” banner.&nbsp; There are a couple other titles under “San Vito Press”.&nbsp; My guess is that San Vito was the publisher/distributor, and Double Elephant was the printer… but that’s purely a guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can’t find anything on Blake’s original art.&nbsp; Several references concerning this book say that the prints are from an 1808 book “Original Inventions of William Blake” that contains 12 plates from Blake’s work etched (engraved?) by Luigi Schiavonetti (1765–1810), with copies in the Library of Congress and the Huntington (amongst others).</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the listings mention &#039;No3 in the series&#039; without any other explanation.&nbsp; It doesn’t seem to bother those sellers... although enquiring minds <u>do</u> want to know.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did find an intriguing (if irrelevant) reference to a different edition published in 1926 “from the Original Plates in the possession of an American collector”.&nbsp; Don’t know if those are the Schiavonetti plates, or what.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is possible that the original art is lost and that the Schiavonetti is the earliest extant record.</p><p><br /></p><p>This link shows an illustration from the 1808 edition:</p><p><a href="http://collections.artsmia.org/art/101611/illustrated-by-twelve-etchings-by-louis-schiavonetti-from-the-original-inventions-of-william-blake-luigi-schiavonetti" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collections.artsmia.org/art/101611/illustrated-by-twelve-etchings-by-louis-schiavonetti-from-the-original-inventions-of-william-blake-luigi-schiavonetti" rel="nofollow">http://collections.artsmia.org/art/101611/illustrated-by-twelve-etchings-by-louis-schiavonetti-from-the-original-inventions-of-william-blake-luigi-schiavonetti</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And this screen capture is from &quot;A Blake Bibliography: Annotated Lists of Works, Studies, and Blakeana&quot; (includes that reference to original plates):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]41445[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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