3 April 2002

The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of "Resources for Further Research," a new wing of the Archive. Intended to assist students and researchers seeking additional materials for the study of Blake, Resources includes collection lists for the Archive's contributing institutions and bibliographies of reference and scholarly sources pertaining to Blake. In addition, we've moved our electronic edition of David V. Erdman's Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake to this new wing. Each of these resources is encoded in SGML and fully searchable. In the future, Resources will also include a Study Guide for using the Archive to explore Blake and his works.

The collection lists were prepared by the Archive editors in partnership with the curators of the contributing collections. Gathered in a single location, these handlists provide the most complete account available today of the various collections of Blake's work. The bibliographies were compiled by the Archive editors with the assistance of Denise Vultee. These bibliographies include a selection of the most important publications written in English about Blake and his work and should be considered a starting point for students and researchers. We will update the bibliographies on an annual basis.

At present the Archive contains 41 copies of 18 of Blake's 19 illuminated books and the Thomas Butts set of Blake's water colors illustrating the Book of Job, now in the Pierpont Morgan Library. In the near future we expect to release more drawings and prints in Preview, a much-anticipated electronic edition of Jerusalem copy E, and further supplementary materials, including a biography and glossary.

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 Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, by a major grant from the Preservation and Access Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, by 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.

We invite you to visit the Archive at www.blakearchive.org or www.blakearchive.org.uk (British mirror).

Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, technical editor
The William Blake Archive

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