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no more engraved books from his press was probably his inability to pay for the copper required in engraving; and his suggestion is confirmed in a letter to Dawson Turner, a Norfolk antiquary, dated June 9, 1818, a few days before the meeting with Linnell. Blake writes: 'I send you a list of the different works you have done me the honour to inquire after. They are unprofitable enough to me, though expensive to the buyer. Those I printed for Mr. Humphry are a selection from the different books of such as could be printed without the writing, though to the loss of some of the best things; for they, when printed perfect, accompany poetical personifications and acts, without which poems they never could have been executed:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
| America, 18 prints folio, | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Europe, 17 do. do., | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Visions, 8 do. do., | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Thel, 6 do. quarto, | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Songs of Innocence, 28 prints octavo, | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Songs of Experience, 26 do. octavo, | 3 | 3 | 0 |
