Lowlands Away
Lowlands Away, written and illustrated by Adrian Henri
Bath: Old School Press, 2001
Even More Simplified binding structure. Pink goatskin spine wrapper laced on with binder-made linen sewing supports. Boards a multi-color laminate of Colorplan paper, topped with stone veneer. Rolled leather endbands. Bugra flexi endpapers. Title carbon tooled down spine. Bound 2022 as the set book for the Hand Bookbinders of California 50th anniversary exhibition.
27 x 20 x 1.25 cm
10.75 x 7.75 x .5”
From the Old School press website:
Adrian Henri wrote ten poems as texts for an oratorio by Richard Gordon-Smith for soloists, chorus and orchestra, which has recently been recorded on CD by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. It tells the story of the loss at sea of the Thames and Medway barge Cynthia, commanded by the composer's great-grandfather, a century before in 1896, and of his last words to his wife, cast into the sea in a bottle and subsequently forwarded to her.
