FALLS THE SHADOW

JONES, Shirley.  FALLS THE SHADOW.                  

(Brecon: Shirley Jones, 1996). Large folio. Cloth clamshell box with brown leather spine label. Unpaginated. One of 40 copies.

"Falls the Shadow is a multi-layered work which explores the gulf between Man's ideals and the realization of those ideals.  Five essays by Shirley Jones draw on historians from Thucydides to Christopher Hill; political philosophers from Aristotle to Mao Tse-tung; poets from Pindar to Eliot.  A blind-printed shell as a symbol of the ideal introduces each movement, a sepia mezzotint shadows its progress.  Set in Baskerville typeface, partly at Gwasg Gregynog, partly by Shirley Jones, and printed by her on Somerset paper, with interleaves of Japanese Unryushi.  Of an edition limited to forty copies."  Fine.

 

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