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3 April 2002
The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of
"Resources for Further Research," a new wing of the Archive. Intended to
assist students and researchers seeking additional materials for the study
of Blake, Resources includes collection lists for the Archive's
contributing institutions and bibliographies of reference and scholarly
sources pertaining to Blake. In addition, we've moved our electronic
edition of David V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_
to this new wing. Each of these resources is encoded in SGML and fully
searchable. In the future, Resources will also include a Study Guide for
using the Archive to explore Blake and his works.
The collection lists were prepared by the Archive editors in partnership
with the curators of the contributing collections. Gathered in a single
location, these handlists provide the most complete account available
today of the various collections of Blake's work. The bibliographies were
compiled by the Archive editors with the assistance of Denise Vultee.
These bibliographies include a selection of the most important
publications written in English about Blake and his work and should be
considered a starting point for students and researchers. We will update
the bibliographies on an annual basis.
At present the Archive contains 41 copies of 18 of Blake's 19 illuminated
books and the Thomas Butts set of Blake's water colors illustrating the
Book of Job, now in the Pierpont Morgan Library. In the near future we
expect to release more drawings and prints in Preview, a much-anticipated
electronic edition of _Jerusalem_ copy E, and further supplementary
materials, including a biography and glossary.
As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access
restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible
through the continuing support of the Institute for Advanced Technology in
the Humanities at the University of Virginia, by a major grant from the
Preservation and Access Division of the National Endowment for the
Humanities, by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and by the
cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have
generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections
in the Archive.
We invite you to visit the Archive at www.blakearchive.org or
www.blakearchive.org.uk (British mirror).
Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, technical editor
The William Blake Archive
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