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Shakespeare, William. Pyramus & Thisbe. Distilled from the Pages of a Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
Llandogo The Old Stile Press 2004 0907664636 / 9780907664635 Limited Edition Hardcover Fine Illustrated by Chris Nurse.
The edition is limited to 160 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. The type is Bulmer. The paper is 250gsm Somerset Printmaking. All the images, single- and two-colour, are woodcuts by Chris Nurse and were printed from the wood. The book is half-bound in brown leather with heavy boards covered with printed papers with designs by the artist. Further designs, together with titling, are blind-blocked on the leather.
From the publisher:
The somewhat irreverent decision to make a book out of just the ? Play within a play? So that the ? Rude mechanicals? Could literally take centre stage, has here given rise to a suite of masterly relief prints. In a recent essay about the work of Chris Nurse, Ann Jones, a curator at the Hayward Gallery wrote, of these images: They are, however, not really illustrations in the conventional sense. Although they are clearly inspired by the richness of the text, like the best artists? Books, they capture a parallel vision. They convey the atmosphere and complexity of the written word, rather than illustrating it literally.
Chris Nurse writes: The project draws together many earlier preoccupations and influences; the tradition of the grotesque, carnival and folkloric rites that make light of sex and death. It is always preferable to first learn of death through the loss of a guinea pig or goldfish. ; chiaroscuro woodcuts; 64 pages
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195.00 GBP
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Shakespeare, William. Venus & Adonis. With 10 Wood Engravings by Andy English.
Mission, Canada. Barbarian Press. 2005 Limited Edition Hardcover Fine Illustrated by Andy English.
Limited to 130 copies. Quarter green cloth with decorated printed paper over boards, with spine label. Bugra cream endpapers. Poliphilus and Blado with Poliphilus Titling and calligraphic display by Martin Jackson in green and black on Zerkall Book Cream Wove. With ten wood engravings and a press device by Andy English.
From the publisher :
We are pleased that Venus & Adonis was shortlisted for the Gregynog Prize for Letterpress Book Design, Oxford, 2005.
Venus & Adonis is one of two lengthy narrative poems written by Shakespeare early in his career, when plague forced the closure of the theatres and he took the opportunity to write something non-theatrical. This poem, The Rape of Lucrece, and probably the sonnets – or at least a good many of them – date from the early 1590s.
Venus & Adonis is an erotic jeu d’esprit, based lovingly on a story told by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. It is the converse of the usual seduction yarn with the boy and the girl in the back seat of the Chevy – although in rather more salubrious surroundings: Venus, a healthy girl with hearty appetites, falls in love with Adonis, a healthy boy with a taste for hunting, and attempts with all her considerable charms to entrap him. Adonis, with stupefying indifference to what is being offered him, resists manfully – well, resists, in any case – and eventually leaves her in order to hunt the boar, with the inevitable tragic result. The poem ends with Venus’s lament and the springing up of a flower from Adonis’ blood to stand in his memory.
The verse is limpid, rich with natural imagery, and laced with broad humour in places – as when Venus, first encountering Adonis, effectually hauls him off his horse and walks off with him under her arm:
... Being so enrag’d, desire doth lend her force,
Couragiously to plucke him from his horse.
Over one arme the lustie coursers raine,
Under her other was the tender boy,
Who blusht, and powted in a dull disdaine,
With leaden appetite, unapt to toy,
She red, and hot, as coles of glowing fier,
He red for shame, but frostie in desier.
We had enjoyed Andy English’s engravings for The Eve of St. Agnes, and so we asked him to illustrate this poem as well. He answered the commission with ten stunning engravings – three full-page, two half-page, four ‘spots’, and a new version of our pressmark. Martin Jackson, an internationally acclaimed calligrapher and teacher, provided vigorous titling for the title page and for the opening and closing of the text.
Venus & Adonis is the second in what we expect to be an ongoing occasional series of poetry & prose from the canon of great writing in English, illustrated with engravings. ; Wood Engravings; 64 pages
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155.00 GBP
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