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America a Prophecy
''America a Prophecy'' is a 1793 prophetic book by the English poet and illustrator William Blake. It is engraved on eighteen plates, and survives in fourteen known copies. It is the first of Blake's ''Continental prophecies''.〔(Blake Archive page )〕
==Background==
During autumn 1790, Blake moved to Lambeth, Surrey (today within the bounds of Greater London). He had a studio at the new house that he used while writing what were later called his "Lambeth Books", which included ''America'' in 1793. Like the others under the title, all aspects of the work, including the composition of the designs, the printing of them, the colouring of them, and the selling of them, happened at his home.〔Bentley 2003 pp.122-124〕 ''America'' was the first book printed by Blake to include the place of origin and Blake's full name on the title page, which showed that Blake would continue to expound his visions of revolution even though parliament had passed acts against seditious writings earlier that year.〔Damon 1988 p. 20〕 Blake wrote in his notebook "I say I shan't live five years. And if I live one it will be a Wonder. June 1793".〔 Early sketches for ''America'' were also included in this notebook, which Blake used between 1790 and 1793.〔Bentley 2003 p. 142〕 While early drafts of ''America'' mentioned King George III by name, Blake scrupulously avoided this in the final draft, referring to him as "the King of England", or other synonyms.〔
Only a few of Blake's works were fully coloured,〔Bentley 2003 p. 158〕 and ''America'' was one of the few works that Blake describes as "illuminated printing", those of which were either hand coloured or colour printed with the ink being placed on the copperplate before printed.〔Bentley 2003 pp. 149–150〕 There were 17 copies of ''America'' created with 4 of them coloured. The work contained 18 plates,〔Bentley 2003 p. 140〕 and were 23 x 17 cm in size. The lines of poetry included in the work were organized into septenaries.〔Bentley 2003 p. 312〕 Henry Crabb Robinson contacted William Upcott on 19 April 1810 inquiring about copies of Blake's works that were in his possession. On that day, Robinson was allowed access to ''Europe'' and ''America'' and created a transcription of the works.〔Bentley 2003 p. 338〕
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