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Remember Me! Customs and Costumes of Blake’s Gift Book
- University of Toronto Quarterly
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 80, Number 4, Fall 2011
- pp. 880-892
- 10.1353/utq.2011.0157
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The gift book Remember Me! with Blake’s wonderful engraving of the ‘Hiding of Moses’ was more remarkable for its decorations than for its literary contents. Of the twenty-four copies recorded, each differs from the others in the pattern of binding, colour of fore-edges, endpapers, and the decorated sleeve-case. Despite this varied elegance, the work had only a modest sale, and the same sheets were re-issued in 1825 for the 1826 gift-giving season. This paucity of sales may be related to the fact that the publisher John Poole had little experience of book distribution. His speciality was as a maker of Marble Paper and Fancy Pocket-Books, not in selling them.