Jerusalem
a facsimile of the illuminated book
by William Blake
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The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to what is now England and visited Glastonbury during the unknown years of Jesus. The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem. The Christian Church in general, and the English Church in particular, has long used Jerusalem as a metaphor for Heaven, a place of universal love and peace. In the most common interpretation of the poem, Blake implies that a visit by Jesus would briefly create heaven in England, in contrast to the "dark Satanic Mills" of the Industrial Revolution. Blake's poem asks questions rather than asserting the historical truth of Christ's visit. Thus the poem merely implies that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.
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Jerusalem: a facsimile of the illuminated book
1951, Published by the Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust
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Reproduced from copy E (paper watermarked 1820) in G.E. Bentley. Blake books.
"Preludium" (p. v-[vi]) signed: Joseph Wicksteed.
"Biographical statement" (p. vii-[ix]) signed: Geoffrey Keynes.
"Five hundred and sixteen copies have been made on a pure rag paper ... 250 copies, numbered I to 250, are reserved for distribution by the Trianon Press, Cobham, Surrey ... 250 copies, numbered 251 to 500, are reserved for distribution by the Grey Falcon Press ... Philadelphia, U.S.A. ... 16 copies, numbered A to P, are reserved for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, Mr. Joseph Wicksteed and the Publishers".
Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 78
Gift to Victoria University Library (Blake no. 382). Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.
Victoria University Library copy 1 is no. 180 of 250 numbered copies distributed by the Trianon Press; copy 2 (Blake no. 382) is no. 333 of 250 numbered copies distributed by the Grey Falcon Press.
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