Portmeirion / images by Leslie Gerry ; text by Robin Llywelyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Llywelyn, Robin, author.

Contributor:

Gerry, Leslie, illustrator.

Wieck, Roger S., associated name, former owner.

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- associated name, former owner.

Whittington Press, publisher, printer.

Wookey Hole Mill, papermaker.

Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne, papermaker.

Fine Book Bindery (Firm), binder.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portmeirion (Wales)--Pictorial works.

Portmeirion (Wales).

Architecture--Wales--Portmeirion.

Architecture.

Historic buildings--Wales--Portmeirion.

Historic buildings.

Williams-Ellis, Clough, 1883-1978.

Williams-Ellis, Clough.

Wales--Portmeirion.

Genre:

letterpress printing.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Stephenson Blake Caslon.

rare books.

Artists' books.

fine press books.

Accordion fold format (Binding) -- England -- 21st century.

Accordion fold format.

Physical Description:

38 unnumbered leaves : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Risbury, Herefordshire : Whittington Press, [2008]

Summary:

Portmeirion, the extraordinary Italianate village built by the eccentric architect Clough Williams-Ellis on a remote peninsula in North Wales. Clough's grandson, Robin Llywelyn, who spent much of his childhood with his grandparents at Portmeirion, has written short but evocative texts about each of Leslie Gerry's seven images of the village. He provides a vivid and concise commentary on each scene, tracing the development of the village from its beginnings in 1925, and describes how Clough put 'fallen buildings,' rescued from demolition before and after the war, to brilliantly creative use in his uniquely bizarre concept of Portmeirion. The double-spread images by Leslie Gerry brilliantly capture Portmeirion's architectural eccentricities in a pageant of color created by the artist in the form of a series of seven original prints drawn on an electronic tablet, a technique that is in many ways the successor to the Jean Berte and pochoir processes in that it achieves its effects by superimposing layers of flat color one on top of another.

Notes:

"350 copies printed at Whittington & Dowdeswell on Somerset and Zerkall geglättet mould-made papers. The type is 24-point Stephenson Blake Caslon and the seven original prints are drawn on a tablet and digitally printed by the artist. 60 special copies contain a set of signed prints of the images, including an additional image, and a poster of one of the images, all in a solander box. Bound by The Fine Book Bindery. July 2008. Copy no: ... [signed] Leslie Gerry, Robin Llywellyn"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Accordion folded pages, case bound.

Whittington 8: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck in 2019. Edition number 70 of 350. Author and illustrator pencil autographs on colophon pages. In slipcase.

ISBN:

1854280872

9781854280879

OCLC:

317639491