TERRA CONTIGUA

JONES, Shirley.  TERRA CONTIGUA.                                

(Llanhamlach: Shirley Jones, 2010). Folio. Cloth slipcase, enclosing specially designed cloth folding box. 18 unbound leaves in six parts. One of forty sets.

Terra Contigua or Border Country is a visual response by Shirley Jones to the poetry and prose of Henry Vaughan and Thomas Traherne, two spiritual, visionary poets, living on either side of the Welsh border during and in the aftermath of the English Civil War.  Shirley Jones introductory texts and her brilliant and sensitive selection of Vaughan's and Traherne's poetry and prose have been set mainly in Baskerville typeface and printed by her throughout on 300 gram Somerset mould-made paper, and on Unryushi tissue.  The book consists of six unsewn folios, two of which feature her blind printed etchings, and two of which each enclose three of her color mezzotint images inspired by the words of Vaughan and Traherne.  Beautiful blue Amate handmade paper is an integral part of the design for John Sewell's folding construction, with custom-made lining papers by Maureen Richardson.  Enclosed in a slip-case in an edition of forty this signed copy is # 29.  Fine as issued.

 

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