The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) Paperback – September 1, 1994

I purchased this for a college level class. It was a great price and much cheaper than purchasing at the university book store.

The illuminations accompanying Blake's poetry should be considered necessary to the reading of his poems. The illuminations are beautiful, descriptive, obviously terribly time consuming and should not be counted as something separate from the words. That said, sometimes it is difficult to read the poems on the illuminations, as they were meant to be read. This book provides the complete illuminations followed by the poems sans illumination, for ease of reading. Also, the price is of course outstanding, as illuminated versions of Blake's poetry can get quite pricey.

It's small but it's only 43 pages. Has the photos of plates and written text. Not much else to say. Good story.

Peter Ackroyd's biography, Blake, renewed my interest in Blake's graphic work. This small copy of Blake' work is intriguing and unintimidating,given that it is short and exquisitely designed from a graphic standpoint. In short, it's accessible. An inexpensive taste test, you might say. I bought two copies just to share with friends.

Terrible quality. The pictures are such low quality the text is almost unreadable. Not even really a book, more like a cheaply made pamphlet. Not worth the price.

William Blake is a humorous satirical writer. His Proverbs of Hell is widely favored and I completely understand why it is so. The 70 axioms under the Proverbs of Hell are both humorous and good principals to hold. Many of these axioms are "quotable" and I've found myself quoting one here and there throughout my day.I highly recommend this book to anyone! It comes with pictures of the original copper plates the book was printed on but also only has the text at the end.Takes 30 minutes tops to read.

Book came inside a brown paper package glued together, and although there was some glue on the inside, it didn't affect the book at all. Book is in absolutely perfect condition, but smaller than expected.

Thought this was going to be a larger book but turns out it looks like some instructions that came with a blender. Very Very small with small handwritten text. I struggle the whole time reading Blake's handwriting and nearly throw it away. Wasn't until after I finished it I found that it is also typed in a very readable font in the back. FML, just so you know, printed text in the back.