{"product_id":"the-hill-signed-numbered-edition","title":"The Hill - SIGNED, NUMBERED EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note these editions are ONLY signed by Hilary Paynter. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eWritten by Max Porter\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated by Hilary Paynter\u003cbr\u003eAfterword by James Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hill is a celebration of collaborative work between author \u0026amp; engraver, between word \u0026amp; image, between the hand and the machine. We built our house around that view, the hill is the be all and end all of living right here. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEchoing from the time that a dozen monks quietly dug, a Victorian farmer stopped for a piss, a buried bomb hissed, voices past \u0026amp; present mingle in and around the powerful wood-engravings of Hilary Paynter. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes disturbing, the images and the text combine to hint at the changing nature of a place . . . so often caused by the people who’ve frequented it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe wood-engravings throughout are printed directly from the artists lemon wood blocks onto Zerkall mould-made paper, the last to come from the mill following it’s closure after the Ahr Valley floods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781854281333\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 900 copies of this edition were set using Walbaum and Stern typefaces and printed onto Zerkall mould-made paper using a Heidelberg Cylinder SBB. The sheets were the last to come from the Zerkall mill which was forced to close following the Ahr Valley floods in 2021. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55699318571381,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/IMG_6395.webp?v=1753867661","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/the-hill-signed-numbered-edition","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}