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Erdman The following investigation began as an attempt to restore the textually significant deletions in William Blake's Jerusalem , notably the conspicuous deletions on Plate 3. It has gradually extended, in the rather surprising absence of any thorough collation of all copies of the work, into a critique of every discernible or alleged deletion or alteration that might be of value in determining the chronology of copies or the order of plates β or that might contribute significantly to our still scanty knowledge of those aspects of Blake's etching process which limited his control over his text.
More or less valuable restorations of text and more or less technical analyses of mended plates fall side by side in the following plate-by-plate report, but this seems the most useful arrangement. Before Blake published his maturest Prophetic Book in "Illuminated Printing," Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion , at least before he printed any of the copies now available for inspection none earlier than according to dated watermarks , he had erased from the copper plates from which he printed them a number of words and whole lines, most conspicuously in the prose and verse of his prefatory third plate addressed "To the Public".
