LEADER 03666nam 2200649 450 001 9910828009503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7735-8167-7 010 $a0-7735-9029-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773590298 035 $a(CKB)2550000001273237 035 $a(EBL)3332697 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001217534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11689407 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001217534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11202325 035 $a(PQKB)10818120 035 $a(CEL)447292 035 $a(OCoLC)881552235 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00234335 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332697 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10861568 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL595283 035 $a(OCoLC)929122207 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/dzn59j 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332697 035 $a(DE-B1597)656894 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773590298 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001273237 100 $a20140503h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWilliam Blake in the desolate market /$fG.E. Bentley Jr 210 1$aMontre?al, Que?bec :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 311 $a0-7735-4306-6 311 $a1-306-64032-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Blake in the Marketplace -- Blake as a Commercial Engraver, 1772-1827 -- "A Blaze of Reputation": The Mathew Salon and Poetical Sketches (1783) -- The Print Shop, 1784-1785 -- Blake as a Teacher, 1784-1827 -- The Blakes as Printers, 1784-1827 -- Blake as a Painter, 1779-1827 -- Blake as Publisher of Works in Conventional Typography -- Blake's Works in Illuminated Printing, 1789-1827 -- Summary of Blake's Career -- Appendix: Blake's Patrons. 330 $aExperience taught William Blake that "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." His brilliant achievements as a poet, painter, and engraver brought him public notice, but little income. William Blake in the Desolate Market records how Blake, the most original of all the major English poets, earned his living. G.E. Bentley Jr, the dean of Blake scholars, details the poet's occupations as a commercial engraver, print-seller, teacher, copperplate printer, painter, publisher, and vendor of his own books. In his early career as a commercial engraver, Blake was modestly prosperous, but thereafter his fortunes declined. For his most ambitious commercial designs, he made hundreds of folio designs and scores of engravings, but was paid scarcely more than twenty pounds for two or three years' work. His invention of illuminated printing lost money, and many of his greatest works, such as Jerusalem, were left unsold at his death. He came to believe that his "business is not to gather gold, but to make glorious shapes." William Blake in the Desolate Market is an investigation of Blake's labours to support himself by his arts. The changing prices of his works, his costs and receipts, as well as his patrons and employers are expertly gathered and displayed to show the material side of the artistic career in Britain's Romantic period. 606 $aEngravers$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aPoets, English$y18th century$vBiography 615 0$aEngravers 615 0$aPoets, English 676 $a821/.7 700 $aBentley$b G. E.$0166169 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828009503321 996 $aWilliam Blake in the desolate market$94008785 997 $aUNINA