Blake lot in Quaritch catalogue, March 1879

3. Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue of English Literature (Mar. 1879), lot 12894, an otherwise unknown “Projected Work … From the Collection of a friend of Blake’s,” consisting of the “Introduction” to Innocence (Songs pl. 4) with all five verses quoted, “The Shepherd, a frontispiece,” presumably for Innocence (Songs pl. 2), and “An ideal Hell” (Butlin #217). No other drawing for the Songs of Innocence is known, and “An ideal Hell” has not been identified further.

Image from a copy in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, digitized by Google Books.