William Blake, with designs by Celia Levetus (Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1899)

Songs of Innocence

The ‘Songs of Innocence’ were first published in 1789, with Blake’s own dark and sinister etchings.  In this tiny edition, Celia Levetus provides a new, and gentler, set of illustrations.  Blake’s nineteen original poems are spread over 118 mini-pages.

Celia Levetus (1874-1936) attended the Birmingham School of Art in the 1890s and rapidly gained a reputation as one of its most prolific artists.