Whittington Press - On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: Milton's Hymn.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: Milton's Hymn, with illustrations by William Blake and a note on the illustrations by Martin Butlin, Keeper of the British Collection, The Tate Gallery. Royal 4to, pp.xii, 25, Plates, The Whittington Press, Andoversford, & Angscot Productions, London, 1981.

Text set in 18 point caslon and printed on a special making of Barcham Green paper. Number X of XXV (350) copies specially bound in full Nigerian goatskin, with a separate portfolio of colour plates, all in a solander box. Endpapers marbled at Whittington, gilt lettering and gold top. Seven tipped-in colour lithographic reproductions printed by Adrian Lack at the senecio Press. A fine copy.

The illustrations reproduce the set of Blake's watercolours in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The text of the poem follows that of the first edition of 1645. (Butcher A54)