PICNIC AT HIGH AND OVER

 

PICNIC AT HIGH AND OVER, 1928

The first publication of the Lampyridae Press imprint Picnic at High and Over, 1928 deliberately draws attention to the influence of the Bloomsbury group on my work. Describing a summer’s day outing of Vanessa Bell and her friends and family, the text of Picnic at High and Over, 1928 is underscored by linoleum cut illustrations that attempt to integrate visual and verbal modes of expression in a way comparable with early twentieth century livres d’artiste and with Bell’s book illustrations for the 1927 edition of Virginia Woolf’s Kew Gardens. The text itself, with its fluent impressions and suggestive punctuation, is a graphically enunciative form that foregrounds the connections between “composition” as it concerns the typographer and “composition” as it concerns the visual artist.

Hand typeset in 10pt Baskerville and printed in a limited edition of 35 copies on 100% cotton paper. The text is illustrated with linoleum cuts, each printed directly onto the page, and is bound in hand painted decorative paper. 

12pp, 9 inches x 6 inches. Limited Edition of 35.