The Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus.” With selections from his poems and other writings is a two volume work on the English painter and poet William Blake, first published in 1863. The first volume is a biography and the second a compilation of Blake's poetry, prose, artwork and illustrated manuscript. The book became the first standard text on the Blake, a foundation of the extensive scholarship on his life and work. Anne Gilchrist appended a memoir of her husband, Alexander, to the second volume.