Lord Tennyson's copy of Blake's "Illustrations of the Book of Job" (1826)

• Published in: Blake Vol. 49
• Main Author: Erle, Sibylle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 25.09.2015

We now know not only that Alfred, Lord Tennyson, owned a copy of William Blake's "Illustrations of the Book of Job," but also that it had pride of place in his collection at Farringford on the Isle of Wight in the early 1860s. According to a list kept at the Tennyson Research Centre i...