NMLP P-038216 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

William Blake · etched, printed and hand-colored by the author, London · 1789

There is no "first edition" in the ordinary sense and no publisher: Blake relief-etched the copper plates by hand, printed them himself, and hand-finished each page in watercolour and other media, so every copy is physically unique and none can be identified by a printed point

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038216 for "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038216, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).