NMLP P-038219 · 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

Only some seventeen or eighteen copies of Innocence are estimated to have been produced, and Blake continued to issue the two sets separately after 1794; posthumous copies were pulled from Blake's plates after his death and are recorded separately in the census

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038219 for "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038219, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).