(Whittington Press.) Nigel Hamway & Peter Lawrence: '2020 Vi...

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(Whittington Press.) Nigel Hamway & Peter Lawrence: '2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them.', Cheltenham, Nomad Letterpress & the Society of Wood Engravers, 2020, limited edition, number 153 of 340 copies, set in Perpetua and printed by Anna Parker and Pat Randle at the Whittington Press on Zerkall Paper, published to mark the Centenary of the Society of Wood Engravers, a year on press, this book links past with present. Nigel Hamway selected nineteen of his favourite contemporary wood engravers and asked them for work (many of whom produced a new engraving for the project), they in turn chose a significant artistic influence to be included alongside their work. Numerous full page illustrations throughout, several tipped in/folding, comprising juxtapositions of illustrations by the following artists: Ian Stephens & Thomas Bewick -- Neil Bousfield & Paul Nash -- Anne Desmet & Edward Wadsworth -- Hilary Payner & Henry Moore -- George Tute & John Farleigh -- Sarah Van Niekerk & Gertrude Hermes -- John Lawrence & Gertrude Hermes -- Howard Phipps & Eric Ravilious -- Andy English & Reynolds Stone -- Peter Lawrence & Geoffrey Wales -- Tichard Wagener & Robert Motehrwell -- Simon Brett & Derrick Harris -- Geri Waddington & Monica Poole -- Chris Daunt & Monica Poole -- Abigail Rorer & Leonard Baskin -- Sue Scullard & Yvonne Skargon -- Miriam MacGregor & John Lawrence -- Harry Brockway & Sarah Van Niekerk -- Paul L. Kershaw & Simon Lawrence -- Nigel Hamway on Peter Holland & John Nash. Folio (34 x 26cm), original quarter cloth, patterned paper covered boards, printed label to spine, original slipcase, together with the original specimen for 2020 Vision, folio, [8]pp, with Autograph Letter Signed from Pat Randle of Nomad Letterpress, Whittington Press, 14.3.2000, on headed paper, housed in original envelope together with a limited edition wood engraving by Simon Brett, 19 x 13cm, pencil signed and numbered 15/50