Hilary Paynter; Simon Armitage: 'In Memory of Water', Rochda...

Hammer

£460

Hilary Paynter; Simon Armitage: 'In Memory of Water', Rochdale, Andrew J. Moorhouse, 2013, limited edition (186), one of 36 special deluxe copies of which this is number X of 10 presentation copies numbered I to X, signed by the artist Hilary Paynter and the poet Simon Armitage, and with additional portfolio of signed wood engravings accompanying the deluxe special copies, the book celebrates the 'Stanza Stones' project: poems by Simon Armitage, carved in stone at six locations in Yorkshire, wood engraved frontispiece + six wood engraved illustrations corresponding to each of the stanza stones poems, printed on Zerkall paper, tall 8vo (29 x 17cm), original full navy morocco, inlaid blue morocco wave design to front cover, bound at the Fine Book Bindery, Wellingborough, accompanying portfolio containing the six corresponding wood engravings/broadsides with printed 'In Memory of Water' poems ('Snow', 'Rain', 'Mist', 'Dew', 'Puddle', 'Beck', each stated as being limited as one of 20 individually numbered copies, each numbered 'X' and each signed in pencil by the poet and the artist, plus wood engraved print of the frontispiece ['Walking Home'] signed in pencil by Hilary Poynter, each leaf 37 x 24.5cm, housed in original blue cloth portfolio, all housed together in original velvet lined blue cloth solander box, printed label to front cover