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| | The Evolution of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
 | | Marriage almost certainly did not take three years to compose and execute, neither was it completed overnight; it was in progress for a time, but not in the way, or for as long, as we have thought. |
| | Marriage, [10] one is hard pressed not to envision him writing and rewriting the entire composition on paper before committing it to copper, because one still imagines Blake working as a poet in the manuscript tradition and using illuminated printing subsequently as a mode of reproduction. |
| | Marriage plates, and noting the shape and any distinguishing marks in the platemarks—a convex or concave edge, or a slight nick or swelling inward or outward, or corners that are round, pointed, dull, or cut—I began to piece together the quarters and reconstruct the original sheets, much as one would a jigsaw puzzle. |
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