FOGG MUSEUM TO PUBLISH WILLIAM BLAKE PORTFOLIO

A portfolio of 30 reproductions of William Blake's water color illustrations for "Night Thoughts"; edited by Edward Young, is being prepared by the Fogg Art Museum, and will be published about November 1. Max Jeffe of Vienna has reproduced 25 plates in sepia and five in color from the original drawings, which were selected from the entire series or 537 illustrations owned by Mrs. William Emerson of Cambridge.

A text with a foreword by Professor C. N. Greenough '98, and an essay by Geoffrey Keynes M.A., of London, who has made a careful study of the whole series of illustrations, is being printed at the University Press and will be included in the portfolio. This publication of Blake's water colors is the first to include reproductions in color, and the only one ever made by photographic reproduction from the originals. An attempt to produce engraved copies of 150 of the drawings in 1794 fell short of its goal, so that only 43 were made at that time.