| Sumario: | The article presents information on the digital facsimiles in reference to the theory of scholar William Blake. Blake's illuminated works are widely dispersed and more and more severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and fragility. Studying them, at both the introductory and advanced levels, requires accurate reproductions of as many copies of each book as is possible. One might wish to argue that translating Blake's analogue hand into the discreet digits of types for the purpose of publication merely recreates the relation between manuscript (fair copy) and letterpress, and hence appropriate for texts from the period. Such an argument, though, would not only ignore Blake's intentions, but it would also dismiss as meaningless the historical, technical, and aesthetic information provided by the poem's form.
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