His next public literary productions, Milton and Jerusalem, are dated 1804 on the engraved titlepages, but, largely on the evidence of the paper used in the only surviving copies, the usually accepted dates for these are about 1808 and 1820 respectively. It seems likely that Blake was engaged during much of the interim from 1795 to 1808 on Vala, though there has never been any definite evidence relating to its date other than the 1797 on the titlepage.

Titlepages of books of masses and motets reveal relatively few organists among their composers. […] Monteverdi died in November 1643. He was given a lavish funeral, published (left) with a titlepage filled with an interesting display of musical instruments.

Compilers of dictionaries of painters and engravers, such as Horace Walpole, Samuel Redgrave, and Michael Bryan, place him in the mid-seventeenth century, record his death in about 1667 (which may be more than ten years too early), assign to him a number of portraits, maps, and titlepage engravings, and generally disparage the quality of his work. Alfred Forbes Johnson’s Catalogue of Engraved and Etched English Title-Pages lists the names of twenty-eight titlepages whose designs are by Vaughan, and to these I will add another to be discussed shortly.

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