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PLATES AND IMAGES

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Individual Plates and Images:

Cover Label
Title Plate
Plate 1. Thus did Job continually.
Plate 2. Hast thou considered my servant Job.
Plate 3. The Fire of God is fallen from Heaven.
Plate 4. And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Plate 5. Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord.
Plate 6. And smote Job with sore Boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
Plate 7. What! Shall we receive Good at the hand of God & shall we not also receive Evil.
Plate 8. Let the Day perish wherein I was Born.
Plate 9. Then a Spirit passed before my Face the hair of my flesh stood up.
Plate 10. The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn.
Plate 11. With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me & affrightest me with Visions.
Plate 12. I am Young and ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid.
Plate 13. The the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind.
Plate 14. When the morning Stars sang together, & all the Sons of God shouted for joy
Plate 15. Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee.
Plate 16. Thou hast fulfilled the Judgment of the Wicked.
Plate 17. I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear but now my Eye seeth thee.
Plate 18. And my Servant Job shall pray for you.
Plate 19. Every one also gave him a piece of Money.
Plate 20. There were not found Women fair as the Daughters of Job in all the Land & their Father gave them Inheritance among their Bretheren.
Plate 21. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning.

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ABOUT THE SERIES

The volume described here is a first edition of this set of uncoloured engraved plates in the Preston Blake Collection held by Westminster Libraries and Archives.

The series consists of 21 plates. The publication line on each plate has a date of 1825, with the exception of one plate which has 1828 (in error?). The label on the cover of the volume has a date of 1826. Blake died in 1827, the publication was not a success.

Each plate is printed on a larger sheet paper of the order of 385 x 275mm, see below.

Each plate is similar in size, with a printed area within the range 198-203mm x 149-152mm, except the title plate which is 185 x 150mm. Each plate consists of a strong carefully engraved central image.

The central image is surrounded by a more crudely drawn illustrated frame with relevant text from the Book of Job.

The label on the front of the volume gives the price as £3 3s. and £6 6s. for "proofs". At the bottom right of some of these plates the almost deleted word Proof can be seen. (Was it usual to mark the plate itself at the proof stage?) These plates are probably a first edition.

SOURCE OF IMAGES AND COPYRIGHT

The images in this series in the Motco Enterprises Limited database were photographed digitally by Motco from the volume in the Preston Blake collection held by the City of Westminster Libraries & Archives.

The larger (digital) images in the database are marked as Copyright Westminster & MOTCO 2000. They may only be copied for personal use. Personal use specifically excludes publication on any website. If you require access to the images for commercial use, in hard copy or digital form, please contact the Westminster Libaries & Archives.

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