Price: £3,000
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: [1982]
Stock Number: 76374
(Lake District.) HANSON (Neil, Editor)
Presences of Nature: Words and Images of the Lake District.
Description: 4/10 COPIES (from an edition of 160 copies) signed by all of the 41 contributors and accompanied by a cloth-and-board portfolio containing an original watercolour by Ian Gardner, and original drawing by David Nash, etchings by Norman Ackroyd and Donald Wilkinson, and photographic prints by Fay Godwin and John A. Davies, all of this additional material signed by the respective artists, the book itself richly illustrated throughout, pp. 223, 4to, original deluxe binding by Faith Shannon of dark green goatskin, partially cut away to expose boards with maps of the region covered by translucent vellum, pale green edges, the book and portfolio together in slipcase, fine
Publication Details: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, [1982]
Notes: A wonderful tribute to the region, here in its most limited version with exclusive additional material. The majority of the work in the book itself is previously unpublished: the text includes work by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fleur Adcock, Melvyn Bragg, Roy Fisher, Tony Harrison, Glyn Hughes, Frances Horovitz, Norman Nicholson, Jon Silkin, et al.; the visual material from Andy Goldsworthy, Fay Godwin, Norman Ackroyd, Paul Joyce, David Nash, Hamish Fulton, et al.
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