Description
The Hill is a celebration of collaboration: author & engraver, word & image, the hand & the machine combine on the page, encouraging the
reader to view this place, or any hill, through the lens of both recent and ancient history.
The Hill is a work of art, and a unique opportunity to own a series of engravings and an original text that has been pasted together at every stage by two outstanding creative talents at the peak of their powers. The illustrations throughout are printed directly from Hilary’s lemonwood blocks onto Zerkall mould-made paper. The text has been set using Monotype Walbaum and is printed by letterpress on a Heidelberg Cylinder from lead type cast at Nomad Letterpress. The strictly limited edition of 874 copies is bond in hardback Fabriano cover boards.
Max Porter is the author of the celebrated Grief is the Thing with Feathers, as well as Lanny, The Death of Francis Bacon and new work Shy, published in Spring 2023. Hilary Paynter is a wood engraver and printmaker, whose subject matters include epic landscapes and heroic structures interspersed with challenging socio-political prints. The Hill also includes an afterword by James Thomas.
