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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.
Title: First Book of Urizen
Published by: William Blake
City: Lambeth
Date: 1794
Total items: 6
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: 4.---Urizen kneels.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blake-FirstBookofUrizen/wm/big/008-147x200.jpg "[picture: 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...] [$]
![[picture: 6.---Urizen in the Womb-like Globe]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blake-FirstBookofUrizen/wm/big/010-140x200.jpg "[picture: 6.---Urizen in the Womb-like Globe]")
6.—Urizen in the Womb-like Globe
Urizen floats naked in the darkness. Full-page illustration without text. [$]
![[picture: 1.---Title page: The Book of Urizen]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blake-FirstBookofUrizen/wm/big/005-title-page-q93-144x200.jpg "[picture: 1.---Title page: The Book of Urizen]")
1.—Title page: The Book of Urizen
The Book of URIZEN LAMBETH. Printed by Will. Blake 1794
A long-haired man, seemingly naked, squats on top of an open book, his beard covers all except his knees [more...] [$]
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.
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![[picture: 3.---Chapter I of Blake's Book of Urizen]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blake-FirstBookofUrizen/wm/big/007-q75-140x200.jpg "[picture: 3.---Chapter I of Blake's Book of Urizen]")
![[picture: 2.---Preludium to the book of Urizen]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blake-FirstBookofUrizen/wm/big/006-q93-132x200.jpg "[picture: 2.---Preludium to the book of Urizen]")
