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Corrections for the Blake Trust Jerusalem
Corrections in the transcription of Blake’s text:
P. 250, 72:50. There should not be a gap between the sixth and seventh words of text, which should read:
South Fenelon
The first part of the inscription in the design (transcribed on the second line of commentary) should read:
Continually Building. Continually Decaying
P.295, 98: 45: the Coventet of Jehovah should read:
the Coventet Jehovah
Corrections in editorial matter:
Page/line | now reads | should read |
9, 19 down | have been existed | have existed |
14, 2 up | 41 [46] | 46 [41] |
15, 15 down | 34 [48] | 38 [34] |
126, 15 up | Hammer | Hammer’ |
127, 2 up | Jerusalem | Jerusalem’ |
130, 8 up | Raine | (Raine |
131, 11 down | end | and |
142, 9 down | Circumcising | ‘Circumcising |
147, top | [plate no. missing] | 12 |
150, 3 up | Raine, Blake | Raine (Blake |
164, 11 up | 21 | 20 |
168, 23 down | constrasts | contrasts |
173, 5 up | betewen | between |
193, 22 down | 47: 7-11 | 48: 7-11 |
194, 7 down | 41 [47] | 41 [37] |
195, 12 down | Gray | Grey |
204, 22 up | 36 [40] | 40 [36] |
207, 6 down | Symbols | Symbols 454) |
210, 5 up | Liberty’, MHH | Liberty’ (MHH |
211, 13 down | Death | Death |
217, 22 up | They | ‘They |
219, 19 up | (69: 43). | (69: 43).) |
231, 3 up | Mesrach | Meshach |
11 up | I shall | shall I |
239, 10 down | 345 | 345) |
240, 4 down | superstititions | superstitions |
255, 5 up | 3 | 5 |
256, bottom | Church. | Church’ |
256, bottom | Beer, Blake’s | Beer (Blake’s |
269, 13 up | Bath-Rabbin | Bath-rabbim |
274, 10 up | 86: 22 | 86: 32 |
281, 22 down | 40 | 41 |
291, 6 down | Night and Ninth | Night the Ninth |
293, 16 down | 99 | 97 |
295, 8 up | wihch | which |
299, 18 up | Jerusalem. | Jerusalem.’ |
300, 8 up | Manuscript. | Manuscript.’ |
Corrections to the placement or line references of notes:
P. 193: n. to 40 [36]: 20 refers to line 21
P. 200: n. to 43 [38]: 55 refers to line 54
P. 204: n. to line 15 belongs on p. 181, after the first sentence of the note to 32 [46]: 15 there
P. 227: n. to 60: 17 refers to line 18
P. 245: n. to 69: 29 refers to lines 28-9
P. 246: n. to 69: 69: 31-2 refers to lines 30-1
P. 246: n. to 69: 39 ought to precede n. to line 41
P. 255: n. to 74: 51-3 ought to precede n. to line 55
P. 280: n. to 80: 1 refers to 80: 1-3
P. 281: n. to 89: 47 refers to lines 46-7 n. to 89: 23-4 refers to lines 24-7
P. 288: n. to 93: 10 refers to 1-18, and in line 5 of the note reference is to line 18, not line 17, of text
P. 292: n. to 96: 9 refers to lines 8-9 and 17
P. 293: n. to 97: 14 should precede n. to line 15
P. 295: n. to 98: 45 should precede n. to lines 46-53
Three books to which reference is made in the editorial apparatus should be added to the list of Works Cited:
David Fuller. Blake’s Heroic Argument. London: Croom Helm, 1988.
Morton D. Paley. Energy and the Imagination. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
Joanne Witke. William Blake and Human Imagination. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
For their contributions to this list of corrections, I am indebted to Dr. David Fuller (University of Durham), Professor John E. Grant (University of Iowa), Professor Terence Hoagwood (Texas A & M University), and Mr. Thomas L. van der Voort (Alexandria, Virginia).