PAYNTER, Hilary, wood engraver. GWASG GREGYNOG. HUGHES, Glyn Tegai, editor. ~ The Romantics in Wales: an Anthology.
One of 150 numbered copies. 16 large wood engravings by Hilary Paynter printed from the original blocks all of major places and landmarks in Wales. Printed on Zerkall mould made paper. Pp. 222. Folio, quarter blue morocco binding by John Sewell with waterfall design by Hilary Paynter in black and purple on the cloth sides, housed in the original dark blue slipcase. A fine copy.
An anthology of extracts from English Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Southey, De Quincey, Hazlitt and Peacock. They are arranged thematically - Distant Prospects, History and Legend, Anticipations, The Welsh, The Language, Religion and Reform, Characters, Valleys and Ruins, Rivers and Cataracts, In the Mountains, Lake and Coast, Towns and Places. There is a separate focus on Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey and the Snowdon passage in his ‘Prelude’.
Hilary Paynter is one of Britain’s most respected and important wood engravers, being instrumental in resurrecting the Society of Wood Engravers in the 1980s. She has illustrated numerous books as well as producing many individual prints. Recently she created a widely acclaimed body of work on the subject of ageing, The Age of Enlightenment.