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Caliphs and Kings: The Art and Influence of Islamic Spain
"Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain), like no other region of the Islamic world evokes a nostalgic perception of a lost paradise: For many, it provides a model of medieval cultural and religious tolerance, intellectual endeavor, and artistic excellence.…
Songs of Innocence and Experience
Preface by David Bindman, General Editor. Foreword. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. The Plates with a transcription of the text. Plates From Other Copies. Commentary on the text and the plates. Appendix. Works Cited.
The Continental Prophecies
If the Urizen books contain Blake's account of Genesis, written and depicted from the 'devilish' perspective of a 'Bible of Hell', then the continental prophecies present his critical reckoning with the history of his own times, a fascinatingly…
Milton a poem, and the final illuminated works: the ghost of Abel, On Homers poetry, [and] On Virgil Laocoön
William Blake's Milton, one of his two great illuminated epics, is featured in this fifth volume of the Blake Trust collected edition of Blake's illuminated books. This is the first-ever reproduction of the magnificent copy of Milton in the New York…
Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning, with a Complete Survey of Key Monuments
Looks at the architecture of Islamic mosques, schools, gardens, caravanserais, bridges, markets, cities, homes, and fortresses, and discusses Islamic design and materials.
The Urizen Books
In Lambeth in the 1790's, against a background of war and revolution in the American colonies and in Europe, and at home the denial of civil liberties and emergent radicalism, William Blake composed three uncompromising books in illuminated printing…
