the bOOK
This edition of The Dunwich Horror was fully subscribed prior to publication.
The Dunwich Horror was set in Bembo and Desdemona types. The text was inked and printed by hand at Heavenly Monkey during the spring of 2024. Most copies were printed on Barcham Green Hayle handmade paper; a few were printed on F.J. Head handmade, and a few on Guarro mouldmade. Several different handmade sheets were used for the title and appendix. All papers were dampened for printing.
The aquatints were printed, on Arches mouldmade paper, by the artist at her Vermont studio.
The edition of 50 numbered copies was issued in three states. All were sewn and bound by hand, with the aquatints incorporated (i.e. sewn) with the text sheets. All are quarter bindings, with boards covered in an original etching by Briony. These thorny cover etchings are palimpsests – they are proof and unused sheets of Reg Lissel’s handmade paper from previous HM projects, stained and painted black, and then run through Briony’s etching press.
The first five copies (and three H.C.) have been specially bound in quarter vellum by Claudia Cohen. They have been issued with a portfolio of first state proofs (i.e. the etching before aquatint is applied); a second portfolio with copies of the aquatints printed on vintage Royal Watercolour Society handmade paper, each one fully painted and initialed by the artist; a copy of Dunwich Tails; one of the eight aquatint plates (cancelled); and a few additional pieces of ephemera.
Copies 6 – 20 contain the project’s eight prints. Each copy was issued in a clamshell box, accompanied by a portfolio of first state proofs of the prints, and the booklet Dunwich Tales, showing some Bodoni ornament designs that did not get used in the book. This booklet is another palimpsest, printed on obliterated sheets of Reg Lissel’s handmade paper.
Copies 21 – 50 contain five prints and were issued in a slipcase covered in painted paper.
Copies 6 – 50 were sewn and bound at HM in quarter Japanese cloth with Briony’s etching over boards. The endpapers in these copies were printed and painted at HM.
