Overview: This was the first American showing of an exhibition arranged by the Blake Trust. It had been held the previous summer at the Tate Gallery in London. Rare books and manuscripts were lent to the exhibition by Lessing Rosenwald, Paul Mellon, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, founder of the Blake Trust, and Kerrison Preston. Also included were facsimile books made for the Blake Trust by the Trianon Press, Paris.

Organization: A large part of the exhibition was circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

Commemorative handbook: An Exhibition of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet, by Geoffrey Keynes. Paris: Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, 1964.

Other Venues:

• Tate Gallery, London
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 12/05/1964–01/03/1965
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 01/16/1965–02/14/1965
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 02/27/1965–03/28/1965
• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 04/10/1965–05/09/1965
• Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 07/03/1965–08/01/1965
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada, 09/25/1965–10/24/1965
• Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 12/18/1965–01/01/1966
• Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 11/19/1966–12/18/1966