Binyon, Laurence; Blake, William [Bearb.]: The engraved designs of William Blake (London [u.a.], 1926)

ENGRAVED DESIGNS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

and this finer expressiveness is helped by the technique, though the
designing in white on black seems to contradict Blake's passionately
proclaimed precept of the “ wiry outline, ,, The Ghariot of Inspiration
(Plate 73) and the marvellous Crucifixion—grander in its simplicity and
more eloquent to imagination without the colouring (Plate 79)—and the
Creation of Eve (Plate 70) are among Blake's supreme inventions. The
marginal designs, too, with their frequent floating and flying figures, are
done with a light mastery that surpasses anything in earlier books. The
design of the Sleeping Albion (Plate 67) is a splendid example of the page
so decorated.

If Jerusalem is inferior to the Job, it is only because the plates of the
Job are related one to another in a grand order and unity, The designs
in Jerusalem make no such congruous whole. But let no one imagine that
the book, difficult, obscure, and incoherent as it is, is devoid of meaning.
On the contrary, of meaning it is all too full.

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