Illuminated books
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience (edited 1794)
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Songs of Innocence (edited 1789)
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The Book of Thel* (written 1788–1790, edited 1789–1793)
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (written 1790–1793)
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The Gates of Paradise (written 1793, edited 1818)
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Visions of the Daughters of Albion* (edited 1793)
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Continental prophecies*
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America a Prophecy (edited 1793)
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Europe a Prophecy (edited 1794–1821)
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The Song of Los (edited 1795)
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There is No Natural Religion (written 1788, possible edited 1794–1795)
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The First Book of Urizen* (edited 1794–1818)
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All Religions are One (written 1788, possible edited 1795)
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The Book of Los* (edited 1795)
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The Book of Ahania* (edited 1795)
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Milton* (written 1804–1810)
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Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion* (written 1804–1820 additions even later, edited 1820–1827 and 1832)
Non-illuminated
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Poetical Sketches (written 1769–1777, edited 1783 and 1868 as a volume)
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An Island in the Moon (written 1784, unfinished)
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The French Revolution (edited 1791)
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A Song of Liberty (edited 1792, published in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
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Vala, or The Four Zoas* (written 1797–1807, unfinished)
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Tiriel* (written c. 1789, edited 1874)
The works with * constitute the prophetic books.
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Illustrated by Blake
- Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories from Real Life (1791)
- John Gay, Fables by John Gay with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, Picadilly (1793)
- Gottfried August Bürger, Leonora (not engraved by him)[154] (1796)
- Edward Young, Night-Thoughts (1797)
- Thomas Gray, Poems (1798)
- Robert Blair, The Grave (1805–1808)
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1808)
- John Varley, Visionary Heads (1819–1820)
- Robert John Thornton, Virgil (1821)
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The Book of Job (1823–1826)
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1824–1827, unfinished)
- Dante, Divine Comedy (1825–1827). Blake died in 1827 with work on these illustrations still unfinished. Of the 102 watercolours, 7 had been selected for engraving.
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