Same Old, same Old - Old Stile Press, that is.
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Members and readers of the LT Fine Press Forum are well aware of my high regard for the Old Stile Press, consistently one of my favorites over the past several years. I have already posted and described several of their editions, e.g., The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson, Green Blades:Poems (Thomas Hardy) and this is a recent acquisition from the large private press collection Bromer Booksellers (Boston) acquired several months ago.
William Wordsworth's classic poem 'Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour: July 13th, 1798' is one of the best known poems in the English language. The poem commemorates a visit to and walk above Tintern Abbey with his beloved sister, five years after his initial visit in 1793. Briefly, Wordsworth describes his love of nature, its influence upon him during various stages of his life, and the lasting memory and ability of Tintern Abbey's serenity and beauty to provide a sense of calm, a moral high ground in his adult and urban-oriented later years.
As can be evidenced by reading Nicolas McDowell's afterword, this project is a natural for the McDowalls and a labour of love, having lived the fifteen years prior to publication of this edition on the banks of 'the Sylvan Wye', no more than two miles from Tintern Abbey. The McDowalls have an obvious affinity for and understanding of the descriptions and emotions conveyed by Wordsworth in this poem and it is reflected in the photographs taken by Nicolas McDowall to illustrate this poem. Abstracting the photographs and printing them in a uniform blue that matches the colour of the type ink gives this edition a stillness and dreaminess appropriate to the poem itself. All of the papers used throughout this book were handmade by Frances McDowall. The water and fiber inclusions within the papers are all taken locally from along the Wye.
William Wordsworth's classic poem 'Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour: July 13th, 1798' is one of the best known poems in the English language. The poem commemorates a visit to and walk above Tintern Abbey with his beloved sister, five years after his initial visit in 1793. Briefly, Wordsworth describes his love of nature, its influence upon him during various stages of his life, and the lasting memory and ability of Tintern Abbey's serenity and beauty to provide a sense of calm, a moral high ground in his adult and urban-oriented later years.
As can be evidenced by reading Nicolas McDowell's afterword, this project is a natural for the McDowalls and a labour of love, having lived the fifteen years prior to publication of this edition on the banks of 'the Sylvan Wye', no more than two miles from Tintern Abbey. The McDowalls have an obvious affinity for and understanding of the descriptions and emotions conveyed by Wordsworth in this poem and it is reflected in the photographs taken by Nicolas McDowall to illustrate this poem. Abstracting the photographs and printing them in a uniform blue that matches the colour of the type ink gives this edition a stillness and dreaminess appropriate to the poem itself. All of the papers used throughout this book were handmade by Frances McDowall. The water and fiber inclusions within the papers are all taken locally from along the Wye.
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Frontispiece.
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Title page.
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Afterword by Nicolas McDowall.
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Colophon.
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Macro photo #1.
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Macro photo #2.
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Macro photo #3.
