Stuttgart; London: edition hansjörg mayer. Engelhornweg 11, 7000 Stuttgart 1, in association with Talfourd Press, 1985
Physical Description
[144] pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 12 cm.
General Note
Printed and bound in West Germany by Staib+Mayer, Stuttgart. Published by arrangement with Edition Hansjörg Mayer. [Imprint].
Summary Note
`Most puffs on book-flaps just go on and on telling you how ashamed you ought to be not to have read the author’s last prize-winning blockbuster, or how out of touch you must be to be buying this one after the TV serialisation has been shown repeatedly. This blub is no exception, though it would like in addition to point out that, as in A Humument (Thames and Hudson 1980) itself, the Victorian novel (A Human Document by W. H. Mallock, 1892) has been mined for the texts which lurk within his prose; these in turn have provoked corresponding visual matter. As the title suggests the literal `heart’ of the novel, a core of the central rectangles of Mallock’s pages, has been worked on here. A full description of process involved and a poignant account of the tangled relations between Mallock and the author can be found if the reader merely reaches down from his shelves his own much thumbed copy of Tom Phillips: Works/Texts to 1974 (Edition Hansjorg Mayer) and turns to page 215.` [dust-jacket].
Provenance
The front pastedown carries a 20th-Century Royal Academy bookplate on which is written: `Presented by the author, 18 May 1987.’
Binding Note
Red cloth binding, lettered in gilt on spine: `Tom Phillips. The Heart of A Humument. edition hansjörg mayer.’ Dustjacket with title and illustration.