To Dawson Turner Esqre,
Yarmouth, Norfolk
9 June 1818, 17 South Molton Street
Sir
I send you a
List of the different Works you have done me the honour to enquire
after--unprofitable enough to me tho Expensive to the Buyer
Those I
Printed for Mr Humphry are a selection from the different Books of such as
could be Printed without the Writing tho to the Loss of some of the best things
For they when Printed perfect accompany Poetical Personifications & Acts
without which Poems they never could have been Executed
£ s d
America 18 Prints folio 5£ 5 . 0
Europe 17 do folio 5
. 5
. 0
Visions&c 8 do folio 3
. 3
. 0
Thel 6 do Quarto 2
. 2
. 0
Songs
of Innocence 28 do. Octavo 3
. 3
. 0
Songs
of Experience 26 do. Octavo 3
. 3
. 0
Urizen 28 Prints Quarto 5
. 5
. 0
Milton 50 do Quarto 10. 10 . 0
12
Large Prints Size of Each
about
2 feet by 1 & 1/2 Historical
&
Poetical Printed in Colours
Each 5 . 5 . 0
These last 12
Prints are unaccompanied by any writing
The few I have Printed &
Sold are sufficient to have gained me great reputation as an Artist which was
the chief thing Intended. But I have never been able to produce a Sufficient
number for a general Sale by means of a regular Publisher It is therefore
necessary to me that any Person wishing to have any or all of them should send
me their Order to Print them on the above terms & I will take care that
they shall be done at least as well as any I have yet Produced
I am
Sir with many thanks for your very Polite approbation of my works
Your most
obedient Servant
WILLIAM BLAKE