Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly was born as the Blake Newsletter on a mimeograph machine at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Edited by Morton D. Paley, the first issue ran to nine pages, was available for a yearly subscription rate of two dollars for four issues, and included the fateful words, "As far as editorial policy is concerned, I think the Newsletter should be just that--not an incipient journal." The production office of the Newsletter relocated to the University of New Mexico when Morris Eaves became co-editor in 1970, and then moved with him in 1986 to its present home at the University of Rochester.

We now have available an index for the journal Blake Studies.

Our current issue (vol. 41, no. 4, spring 2008) is being mailed to subscribers in April.
Contents:
Robert N. Essick, "Blake in the Marketplace, 2007": view the Innocence Y prints sold at Sotheby's in November 2007
Grant F. Scott, review of Tracy Chevalier, Burning Bright
Anne K. Mellor, review of Helen P. Bruder, ed., Women Reading William Blake
G. E. Bentley, Jr., "The Dates of Jerusalem"
Aileen Ward, Reply to G. E. Bentley, Jr.

Online features from past issues:
Joseph Viscomi, Blake's "Annus Mirabilis": The Productions of 1795
G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake and the Xenoglots
Susanne Sklar, The Jerusalem Marathon
Color versions of the illustrations for the article "Blake's Only Surviving Palette?" by Joyce H. Townsend, Bronwyn Ormsby, Julia Jönsson, and Mark Evans (vol. 39, no. 2, fall 2005) can be accessed here.

Online articles on the subject of color printing:
Martin Butlin, "William Blake, S. W. Hayter and Color Printing," and a response from Robert N. Essick and Joseph Viscomi.
From vol. 36, no. 2, fall 2002: Essick/Viscomi, "Blake's Method of Color Printing: Some Responses and Further Observations."
From vol. 35, no. 3, winter 2001/2002: Essick/Viscomi, "An Inquiry into Blake's Method of Color Printing."


Manuscript submissions are welcome in either hard copy or electronic form. Send two copies, typed and documented according to forms suggested in The MLA Style Manual, and with pages numbered, to either Morton Paley or Morris Eaves at the addresses listed under Editors. No articles will be returned unless accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. For electronic submissions, you may send a diskette, or you may send your article as an attachment to an email message; please number the pages of electronic submissions. The preferred file format is RTF; other formats are usually acceptable.

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