Books
There
have been four of Angela
Lemaire's own artist books, one of which is The Plague, 1967.
Designed, printed and produced by her. Two woodcuts, eight
etchings.
Above:
two etching/aquatints from The Plague
A 2nd edition of this book has been published, as an artist’s book by The Old Stile Press, in 2009.
The edition is laid in a dropback box, see below. There are 8 etchings and one new woodcut.
Text and woodblocks printed by Nicolas McDowall. Etchings printed by Martyn Grimmer.
Above: images from the 2nd edition of The Plague
Selection of early books: The Plague (title page); The Monk's Life; Her Day; Temenos; Being Human.
Books with The Old Stile Press
These can be viewed in greater detail at www.oldstilepress.com
Talking Through Trees
The latest book with The Old Stile Press is Talking Through Trees by Edward Picton-Turbervill, with over thirty woodcuts, 2017.
The book was designed by Nicolas McDowall during 2016. The main edition consists of 140 copies, numbered and signed by the author and artist.
The Special Edition is hand coloured and is limited to 10 copies, numbered I - X.
This book is about the trees in the Backs, St John’s College, Cambridge.
It was written when the author was an undergraduate and organ scholar at St John’s College …
He had developed an early interest in the books that were produced at The Old Stile Press - where text and image are of equal importance.
The Press became eager to work towards publication… and both author and Press decided that “wood-cuts by Angela Lemaire
…. would be the perfect accompaniment to this text.” And I am delighted!
Special edition, drop-back solander box and cover.
Title page with map of the Backs at St John's College
St John's College, with trees
The Wordsworth Oak
On the right the Bridge of Sighs over the Cam
The Babington Yew
Slip-case and cover, Main Edition
Yew and Honey Willow
Redwood, and a young Wellingtonia
The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer
The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer, 2000. Title Page. Wood engravings & linocuts, limited edition of 220.
The Pyed Pyper
The Pyed Pyper, 2002.
Woodcuts and linocuts.
Limited edition of 175
JOYS: passages from the works of Thomas Traherne
JOYS: passages
from the works of
Thomas Traherne, 2004.
Title Page.
Linocuts, woodcuts and engravings,
limited edition of 200,
hand coloured
edition of 26.
The Secret Commonwealth by Mr. Robert Kirk, 1691
The Secret Commonwealth by Mr. Robert
Kirk,
1691, 2006.
Woodcuts.
Limited edition of 150, hand
coloured edition of 10.
A Christmas Sequence
A Christmas Sequence, with
an introduction by Dr Andrew Plant. Above: Binding &
slipcase, title page,
and preparatory drawings for
Massacre - 5th Evening, The Innocents & final scene.
The text used in this book was
one that
had originally been chosen by Benjamin Britten from the Chester Miracle
Cycle as libretto for an opera
along the lines of Noye's Fludde. Sadly he died
before he could complete the project, but the drafted
text is printed here for the first time. There are 76
woodcuts, printed from the block, and the book,
as are all The Old Stile Press books here, is designed and printed by
Nicolas McDowall
Editions: 10 Special and 195 Main.
Jubilate Agno
Below: images from Jubilate Agno, by Christopher
Smart.
The book is printed and designed by Nicolas McDowall, The Old Stile Press.
Woodcut and linocut images and Afterword by Angela Lemaire 2012.
Binding of Jubilate Agno
Jubilate Agno
Title page
Page spread from Jubilate
Old Jedburgh
This is a hand printed book with fourteen wood-engravings,
and an Introduction and text by Angela Lemaire.
There are twelve views of Jedburgh each depicting an imaginary figure from the past.
The book is printed by letterpress at Robert Smail's Printing Works, Innerleithen.
All the wood-engravings were printed from the engraved lemon-wood blocks.
It is a limited edition of 150 signed and numbered copies.
Enquiries - email Angela Lemaire - see Contact.
1. Cover, with engraving.
2. The Auld Brig
3. The Capon Tree
Cosmiel's Gift by Philip Carr-Gomm
This is a small book consisting of an excerpt from Philip Carr-Gomm's novel The Prophecies.
There are eleven images by Angela Lemaire in it - mostly wood-engravings.
Cosmiel's Gift is an account of a post-mortem journey that is inspired by early Jewish Merkabah mysticism,
and by the book The Ecstatic Journey by the 17th century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher,
who describes a journey through the cosmos accompanied by the angel Cosmiel.
More details at www.philipcarr-gomm.com
"After this ecstatic journey with Cosmiel, I no longer fear death.
Instead I know of the wonders that lie in store for me, once freed of the physical body.
Death, I now know, is a process of shedding, of letting go of attachments, of longings, of defences,
of garments of thought and feeling that cover the pure radiance of the soul."
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