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When he was fifty-ish ... William Blake got two drawing commissions to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost ... the first commission was from the Reverend Joseph THOMAS in 1807 ... the second, for a set of much larger sheets, was from Thomas BUTTS ... Wikipedia present the sets very well, although their numbering of Butts & Thomas seems to contain a transcription error at one point ... ... I'd just like to show the first and second versions that have survived as comparable pairs ......

the full text of the wikipedia article seems very helpful ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_Paradise_Lost...