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Only one of Blake's literary works was published by conventional means – set in metal type and printed – during his lifetime, his first book, Poetical Sketches (1783). The French Revolution was to have been so published in 1791, but does not seem ever to have been issued. All of his other published works were brought out by Blake himself in a unique form: as illustrated, hand-coloured texts, which he called 'Illuminated Books'.
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© 1987 Alan Tomlinson
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Tomlinson, A. (1987). Blake's Printing Methods. In: Macmillan Master Guides Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08645-0_2
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