EDWARD YOUNG & WILLIAM BLAKE: THE COMPLAINT, AND THE CONSOLATION; OR, NIGHT THOUGHTS, London, printed by R Noble for R Edwards, 1797, 41 (of 43) full page engravings by Blake surrounding letterpress text, viii, [2], 95pp followed by two blank leaves at end, lacking pp13/14 and pp33/34, the “explanations of the engravings” supplied in manuscript (not recent), one folio folding leaf loosely inserted, the engravings comprising frontispiece of “night the first”; p1 “sleep forsaking the couch of care”; p4 “the imagery of death variously delineated”; p7 “death tolling a bell”; p8 “the universal empire of death characterised”; p10 “an evil genius holding two phials”; p12 “the frailty of the blessings of this life demonstrated by a representation in which the happiness of a little family is suddenly destroyed”; pp13/14 lacking, lacks engraving “the insecurity of life”; p15 “the author encircled by thorns”; p16 “the struggling of the soul for immortality”; frontispiece to “night the second”; p19 “a skeleton discovering the first symptoms of re-animation”; p23 “a man measuring an infant”; p24 “our inattention to the progress of time”; p25 “time having passed”; p26 “the same power in his character of destroyer”; p27 “conscience represented as a recording angel”; p31 “a good man conversing with his past hours”; lacks pp 33/34, lacks “Belshazzar” engraving; p35 “a parent communicating instruction to his family”; p37 “the story of the good Samaritan”; p40 “angels attending the death bed of the righteous”; p41 “angels conveying the spirit of the good man to Heaven”; frontispiece to “night the third”; p46 “the folly and danger of pursuing pleasures”; p49 “the author supporting a female figure”; p54 “the veil of death”; p55 “his guardian angel sent to reprove mourner”; p57 “death with his uplifted dart”; p63 “a king of terrors changed into the prince of peace”; frontispiece to “night the fourth”; p70 “death as a huntsman”; p72 “two figures representing sense and reason”; p73 “the saviour afflicted and tortured”; p75 “the sun”; p80 “a personification of thunder”; p85 “the exulted views of a good man”; p87 “Christ represented as the great philanthropist”; p88 “the wrestling of Jacob with the angel”; p90 “the saviour healing affliction”; p92 “the harmony between faith and reason”; p93 “angels in grief and wonder”; p95 “a personification of truth”, generally good margins, leaves approx height 313mm, folio, contemporary rowan backed marbled paper covered boards, very worn, inner joints weak