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VOLUME 59 NUMBER 2  FALL 2025

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© 2025  Copyright Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
Cover:  Color-modified detail of Jerusalem copy I, frontispiece, printed c. 1832. Original held by the Library of Congress, Rare Book and 

Special Collections Division, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, catalogue number 1811. Original photo courtesy of the William 
Blake Archive . Cover design by Dina Garber.

Rebecca Marks, independent scholar
Josephine A. McQuail, independent scholar
Silvia Riccardi,  Umeå University
Robert W. Rix,  University of Copenhagen
Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University

Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired
Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo
Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier, retired
Sibylle Erle, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside
Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto
Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia

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Articles

Who Are Blake’s Eternals?
By Christopher Z. Hobson

Blake and Exhibitions, 2024
By Luisa Calè

Blake’s Lawgiver, Newton’s System, Reynolds’s Justice
By Simon Schaffer