Records relating to research

174 photographs : colour slides. 

Slides show copies of Blake's work including electrotypes of Blake's Songs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, colour prints of Paradise Lost as well as slides of a 18th century rolling press, experiments in registration and other prints.    

165 photographs : colour slides.

Slides are images of Blake works including Unizen, First Book of Unizen, The Book of Ahania, Visions of the Daughter's of Albion, etc.  held in various museums and libraries including the British Museum, Harvard College Library, Yale Beinecke Library, Tate Gallery London, Pierpoint Morgan Library, Newberry Library.  

40 photographs : colour slides.   

270 photographs : colour slides.

Slides are of works by William Blake held in various institutions including the Yale Centre for British Art, Glasgow University Library, Harvard University, The British Library, The Henry E Huntington Library, etc.

A list of some of the works was provided by Michael Phillips:

321 photographs : colour slides.

Slides are of copies of Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake held in various institutions including Yale Centre for British Art, National Gallery of Canada, Christie's and personal collections including a copy H owned by Maurice Sendak.

Slides used for research by Michael Phillips for his book The Creation of the Songs : From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing, 2000.

127 photographs : colour slides.

Slides are of William Blake prints, plates, print presses, Blake printmaking experiments, and Michael Phillips using a press, etc.

26 photographs : colour slides. 

Also includes a print of a description of a 1 year MA program called Blake and the Age of Revolution from the University of York, England ; Michael Phillps is the convenor.  

127 photographs : colour slides.

Slides are copies of Blake works held by various institutions including the Huntington Library, Morgan Library, University of Texas, Wellesley College, Houghton Library, Bodleian Library, Harvard, etc.    

Slides used for research by Michael Phillips for his book The Creation of the Songs : From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing, 2000.

87 photographs : colour slides.  

168 photographs : colour slides.

Slides are copies of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience held in various institutions including Harvard University, Rosenwald Collection, Houghton Library, Huntington Library, Fitzwilliam Museum, Morgan Library, National Gallery of Canada. 

Slides used for research by Michael Phillips for his book The Creation of the Songs : From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing, 2000.

Notebook was used by Michael Phillips in 1991 for his research for his book The Creation of the Songs : From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing (Princeton, 2000), when he travelled North America to see all copies in public and private collections.  The lists and notes correspond with the 35mm colour slides of the Songs copies.    

Correspondence with Roy Davids, Director of the Department of Printed Books and Manuscripts, Sotheby's.

Correspondence with Lucinda Orr of Sotheby's.

Correspondence regarding Phillips' interest in the sale of Historia del Testamento Vecchio at Sotheby's. Includes a negative slide of the vellum binding cover and photocopies of plates.

Photographs, prints and slide negatives of the cover of the book Historia del Testamento Vecchio and plates of Lots and his daughters.

Correspondence from W.H. Kelliher, Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library, and David Worrall from St. Mary's College regarding A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757 and the possibility of it once belonging to William Blake. Includes a postcard from Brian Benzies to Michael Phillips on the same topic.

Includes requests from Phillips to view Blake records in Cambridge University, photocopies of articles, notes and prints of Blake's plates related to A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1757 and 1757 and also Raphael's Historia del Testamento Vecchio, two books thought to have once been owned by William Blake.

Includes prints, photo negative slides and negatives on film of the book's cover and illustrations.

Contains a notebook of early Blake research for Phillips's PhD at Exeter University.

Contains a notebook belonging to Phillips's, possibly while completing his BPhil at Worcester College. Note on the inside cover reads “MC Phillips Worcester College, Oxford please return”.

Contains correspondence and research material on the life of Benjamin Heath Malkin, Blake’s friend and author of “A Father’s Memoirs of his Child” (1806).

Receipt for the copy of Richard Bentley’s edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost (1732) containing annotations, purchased by Phillips in 1978.

Notecards used in Phillips's BPhil studies and Blake research.