The Hill - SIGNED, NUMBERED EDITION

Please note these editions are ONLY signed by Hilary Paynter.

Written by Max Porter
Illustrated by Hilary Paynter
Afterword by James Thomas

The Hill is a celebration of collaborative work between author & engraver, between word & 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. 

Echoing from the time that a dozen monks quietly dug, a Victorian farmer stopped for a piss, a buried bomb hissed, voices past & 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.

The 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.

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ISBN: 9781854281333

The 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.