All Religions Are One by [TRIANON PRESS]; BLAKE, William; KEYNES, Geoffrey

Trianon Press, Paris, first edition thus, 1970. One of 600 numbered ordinary copies from a total edition of 662. Quarter-morocco and marbled boards, 4to,. 10 facsimile plates, 8 pp. From the Description: "William Blake’s early tractate, 'All Religions are One', consists of ten small etched plates averaging in size only about 5.5 X 4 cm. There is some uncertainty about the circumstances in which the work was produced, though it is generally accepted that it must belong to a period of experimentation in the production of the plates for the Illuminated Books. " For this facsimile edition "The plates were reproduced in Paris in the workshops of Trianon Press (France) by the collotype process, with some water-colour washes added by hand" and the work was "printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match the paper used by Blake. Copy no. 52 of 600 numbered copies from a total edition of 662. Spine slightly faded, otherwise Very Good in Very Good slipcase.

4to. London: Trianon Press, 1970. 4to, with 10 facsimile leaves, 5 pp. commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, plus 32 pp. of the progressive collotype printings. Full green morocco, near fine with green marbled slipcase. § Copy III of 36 de luxe copies. The total edition was of 662 copies including 36 de luxe copies numbered I-XXXVI, 600 regular copies numbered 1-600, and 26 copies lettered A-Z reserved for the trustees of the William Blake Trust and the publishers. Bentley, Blake Books, 5. All Religions are One (c. 1788) is “a small tractate, perhaps Blake’s first experiment in his illuminated printing, [it] exists in only one copy. It affirms that the Imagination ‘is the true man’... and thus early Blake had completed his revolutionary theory of the nature of man and proclaimed the unity of all true religions.” (Damon, Blake Dictionary).