18 July 2005

The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of redesigned and updated bibliographies and collection lists. This redesigned section of the site allows easy access to information about William Blake, his works, and Blake holdings in major collections.

The General Bibliography is divided into four sections: basic reference works; standard editions; literary, historical, and biographical studies; and art historical studies. The Specific Bibliography is divided into sections according to media, and each section is further subdivided down to the level of the individual work. Together, these lists provide a comprehensive resource on major articles and books on Blake published in English.

The Collection Lists catalogue original works by Blake owned by institutions and collectors that have allowed their holdings to be included in the Archive. Each list is organized by media and genres. Complete lists of holdings from the following institutions and private collectors are included:

Ashmolean Museum
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
British Museum
Collection of Robert N. Essick
Fitzwilliam Museum
Fogg Art Museum
J. Paul Getty Museum
Glasgow University Library
Houghton Library
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Library of Congress
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pierpont Morgan Library
National Gallery of Art, Washington
National Gallery of Victoria
New York Public Library
Royal Institution of Cornwall
Tate Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum
Whitworth Art Gallery
Yale Center for British Art

To access these resources, from the main page click "Resources for Further Research." From within any one of these resources, you can use the table of contents to access sections of the currently selected resource or other resources.

As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible through the continuing support of the Library of Congress, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and by the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive.

Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors
Andrea Laue, technical editor
The William Blake Archive