The 12 etchings are interleaved with selected verse, the latter printed on sheets of translucent Japanese paper.
With prospectus loosely inserted.
Contents
Etchings: 1. Sun and storm, Caithness -- 2. Black Rock, Co. Mayo -- 3. High Island -- 4. Cathedral Rocks, Blasket -- 5. Blue Cove, Skellig -- 6. At Antony -- 7. The Gower in Twilight -- 8. The Lake at Ditchley -- 9. Hood Hill -- 10. Under Hambleton -- 11. Evening at Thirsk Hall -- 12. Wharfedale in February. and Verse: [1] I can see clearly now / Johnny Nash -- [2] Poem in October / Dylan Thomas -- [3] Tay Bridge / Douglas Dunn -- [4] The Whitsun Weddings / Philip Larkin -- [5] On Burroughs' Work / Allen Ginsberg -- [6] My Orcha'd in Linden Lea / William Barnes -- [7] On a Night Like This / Bob Dylan -- [8] La Belle Dame sans Merci / John Keats -- [9] And the Days are Not Full Enough / Ezra Pound -- [10] The Waste Land / T.S. Eliot -- [11] Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Thomas Gray -- [12] At Lords / Frances [sic] Thompson.
Copy Note
The twelve etchings are published in editions of 90 with 2 exhibition proofs and 2 printer’s proofs. Numbers 1-50 and the proofs are collated into boxed sets of which this is No. 46. Numbered and signed in pencil by the artist on the colophon. Each plate is also titled, numbered and singed by the artist.
Binding Note
Housed in a black solander box lettered in gilt on the spine: "Reading the Landscape. Norman Ackroyd. 2019." Deckle-edged paper.