Stunning Woodcut by Jon McNaught for London Review of Books

Jon McnaughtWoodcut
Written By Dutch Uncle

Just in time for the holidays - a quintessential gift for connoisseurs of literary masterpieces, devotees of the Bard or simply persons who admire impeccable craftsmanship.

£40 per print.
12.7 x 17.5 inches
Available to buy here: lrb.me/headaches

FILM TRAILER

To mark the quatercentenary of the registration of Shakespeare’s First Folio at Stationers’ Hall on 8 November 1623, London Review Of Books produced a limited edition print, replicating – as closely as possible – the processes that William and Isaac Jaggard relied upon over the two years it took them to print Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. The idea was to tell a 400-year story of literary publishing; the reality proved to be a series of headaches.

Based on a piece by Michael Dobson first published in the 15 November 2001 issue of the ‘London Review of Books’.

Printed on Somerset Velvet White 250gsm paper from St Cuthberts Mill, with ink by Hawthorn Press, a mix of linseed oil-based black ink and a traditional recipe using galls from an 800-year-old oak tree on the Bristol Downs.

Printed by Nick Hand of the Department of Small Works, Bristol, on a replica 18th-century common press designed by Alan May in 2009, now housed at the University of Bristol (with the help of a 1960s FAG Swiss Proof 40 proofing press).

Set in Plantin and Times, cast by Ellen Bills for Nomad Letterpress on a Monotype Composition Caster, with an original woodcut illustration by Jon McNaught, based on the original cover design of the ‘LRB’, by Peter Campbell.

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