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Songs of Innocence and Experience

40 never before published images of Witkin's most recent work (including stunning color plates) seamlessly blend
with 22 classic images from our Platinum Series titles. This is the first photographic book printed in a new
10-color, ultra high resolution process on lush 100% cotton Arches paper.

There are very few books of English poetry that exist in more editions than these Songs, but no edition before now
has ever attempted to resee Blake's actual Vision in the fabric of a later time. Witkin's Blake is as important a
contribution to art as it is to mystical thought. The words of the greatest Western visionary of the late eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries have now been translated into visual images by the greatest Western visionary of the late
twentieth and twenty-first centuries, yet the timeless content of their work is the same.

Poems by William Blake
Introduction by John Wood
Classic Edition of 915 signed, numbered and boxed copies, plus 26 lettered copies
Reserve Edition of 75 copies with 1 free-standing platinum print
13 14" x 12 1/4"