The 12 Moneths, 2021
Nicholas Breton: Belmont Hall Press, Malvern, UK
Illustrated with linocut prints by Angie Jordon
Breton (1545-1626) was an English author best known as a poet. This collection of musings on each month is taken from ‘Fantasticks’ written in 1626. In Breton’s personal dedication ‘To the Reader’ he describes walking ‘thorow the fields, to light upon a peece of paper’ written by he knew not who but liking so much what was written upon it that ‘I fell into an huymor of imitating the veyne, so neer as I could, in description of the twelve hours, the twelve months and some special days in the yere’.
Edition of 50, 315 x 201 mm, printed on Zerkall 602S
£75 (plus P&P and insurance)