by JONES, Shirley
JONES, Shirley. MEZZOTINT AND THE ARTIST'S BOOK; A FORTY YEAR JOURNEY. (N.P.: Red Hen Press), 2019. 4to. Marble papered wrappers. x, 73 pages. Shirley Jones set up her own studio at Brecon in Wales Brecon and from 1975 t 2016 produced 28 Artist books in which her etchings and mezzotints complement her poems, prose-pieces and translation for the Old English and Old Welsh. Ea of the books is a total concept with the choice of paper and typeface, the un of text and image, and the harmony of the binding all as carefully considered the visual and literary creativity involved, and each is a work of art unto itself. The printing and the binding was done by Adrian (truncated)