Blake Records Supplement is a continuation of Blake Records (Clarendon Press, 1969), which attempted to collect and publish as many as possible of the references to Blake made by his contemporaries. In the twenty years since work on Blake Records was completed, a good deal of new biographical information about Blake has been found in letters, advertisements, essays, and journals of his contemporaries. The new information incorporated in the Supplement includes references to Blake's musical ability, further evidence of R. H. Cromeck's duplicity in dealing with his illustrations for Blair's Grave, letters of Blake's wife, new evidence about his trial for sedition, and vigorous new comments about Blake despite, or because of, what was taken to be his madness. The two works together provide the solid foundation of all we know about the life of the poet and artist. Like the original volume, the book is fully annotated and indexed.

G.E. Bentley, Jr is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and the author of more than thirty books.

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'it is useful to have the material discovered since 1969 collected together' David Fuller, University of Durham, Review of English Studies

'the appearance of the Supplement is greatly to be welcomed by Blake specialists for collating material which has come to light since the Records were published in 1969 ... the sheer industry involved in such a venture is to be commended, and the Supplement,like the Records, contains enough of what Bentley calls Blake's 'imaginative substance' (p.xxi) to satisfy the most exacting reader.' nglish Studies, Volume 71, Number 5, October 1990

'This book and its predecessor, the monumental Blake Records,are indispensable tools for the Blake scholar, and constitute a unique kind of biography, as there is a narrative element that arises naturally in the presentation of documents, letters, and memoirs.' Janet Warner, New Blake Records

'the appearance of the Supplement is greatly to be welcomed by Blake specialists for collating material which has come to light since the Records were published in 1969' English Studies, Vol.71, No.5, Oct 1990