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The Romantics in WalesAn AnthologyEdited by GLYN TEGAI HUGHESIllustrated with wood engravings by HILARY PAYNTER  In addition to a Select Bibliography, references to books and articles relating to Wales are included in the biographical notes. There is an index of persons, and one of places that indicates the present-day form. GLYN TEGAI HUGHES lectured in English at the University of Basel and in Comparative Literary Studies at Manchester, before becoming the first Warden of Gregynog in the University of Wales (1964-1989). His publications include two volumes on German Romanticism and books on the hymn-writer Williams Pantycelyn and, in Welsh, the poet Islwyn. He is a former Governor of the BBC and one of the founder members of Channel4andS4C. HILARY PAYNTER was born in 1943 in Dunfermline and studied sculpture and wood engraving at Portsmouth College of Art. Instrumental in the revival of the Society of Wood Engravers in the early 1980s, Hilary was its lynchpin for over three decades, initially as Honorary Secretary, later as Chairman. In 2006, she was also elected President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Her work is represented in the Ashmolean, Fitzwilliam and Victoria & Albert museums, as well as in city galleries including Birmingham, Hereford and Portsmouth; and in the universities of London and Northumbria. She has illustrated books for a number of publishers, and in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Thomas Bewick, a suite of 14 wood engravings by her was enlarged to two metres high and, stretching over 22 metres, printed onto vitreous enamel panels and installed on the Metro platforms at Central Station, Newcastle. Her sixteen engravings for The Romantics in Wales (ten of which are full-page) combine acute and subtle observation, complete mastery of technique and, on occasion, captivating imaginative re-creation, as in a vision of the Shelleys' home at Cwm Elan, now under the waters of the reservoir. Other views include Pistyll Rhaeadr, Plas Newydd and Dinas Bran, Snowdonia, Symonds Yat, Tintern Abbey, Valle Crucis, and the castles at Caernarfon, Chepstow and Raglan. EDITION DETAILSThe edition is limited to 150 numbered copies in a quarter-leather binding by John Sewell to a design by Hilary Paynter. A further 15, numbered I-XV, are issued in a special design binding by John Sewell in collaboration with David Sellars. The text is set in Monotype Walbaum, and display lines in Monotype Romulus, all cast at Gwasg Gregynog by Gerard O'Shea. A digitized version of Open Romulus has been used on the title-page and is printed from a line block.The page design, by David Vickers, echoes the large paper format of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, and the book is printed by him on a special making of Zerkall mould-made paper. Hilary Paynter's wood engravings are printed direct from the original woodblocks, and are also available as signed prints. 222pp., 245X350mm. THE BINDING Bound by John Sewell to a design by Hilary Paynter. Hand-sewn and bound by hand in quarter dark blue goatskin, with hand-sewn silk endbands and titled along the spine. The upper cover printed black over dark mauve cloth boards with detail from Hilary Paynter's engraving of Pistyll Rhaeadr, a design which is mirrored on the lower cover. Presented in a buckram-covered slip case. Copies may be order up to 10th November 2009 at the special pre-publication price of £725. Orders after that date will be at the full price of £795. ISBN 9780954983963 Available in sheets for bookbinders and in a special binding: contact the press for details. PRINTSA number of individual prints are available: Large (A4) £130, Small £65. Please contact us for details.
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