NMLP P-038218 · 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

Copies are not collated but identified — each is assigned a letter (Copy A, B, C … Z, AA and so on) in Sir Geoffrey Keynes's census and G. E. Bentley Jr.'s Blake Books, and copies B, C and D are the earliest combined copies, formed in 1794 from Innocence sheets printed in 1789 plus the complete Experience of 1794

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038218 for "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038218, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).