{"id":309,"date":"1959-11-23T21:11:47","date_gmt":"1959-11-23T21:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/?p=309"},"modified":"2018-05-02T11:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:11:39","slug":"first-commissioned-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1959\/11\/23\/first-commissioned-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Print Center Publication: Leonard Baskin illustrates Blake’s Auguries of Innocence<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auguries of Innocence<\/em>, 1959<\/p>\n

Text by William Blake, Illustrated by Leonard Baskin<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 9 1\/2″ x 6″, 20 pages<\/p>\n

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In 1959, we commissioned Leonard Baskin to illustrate a version of William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0published in an edition of 250. It was printed by Esther Baskin, Leonard Baskin and Richard Warren at the Gehenna Press for The Print Club of Philadelphia. The volume contains 10 leaves, untrimmed, with 9 wood engravings printed on Amalfi paper, sewn into a grey Fabriano wrapper with a paper label on the front cover.<\/p>\n

This was the first of many artworks, artist books and books that\u00a0The Print Center has both commissioned and published.<\/p>\n

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Auguries of Innocence, 1959 Text by William Blake, Illustrated by Leonard Baskin Hardcover, 9 1\/2″ x 6″, 20 pages In 1959, we commissioned Leonard Baskin to illustrate a version of William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence,\u00a0published in an edition of 250. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-timeline","tag-tpc-publication"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}