
Faber Nature Poets
Design for Faber Nature Poets, Faber & Faber
I commissioned cover illustrations and printed endpapers from the following printmakers:
Melvyn Evans (Hardy)
Andy Lovell (Clare)
Ed Kluz (Coleridge)
Angela Harding (Keats)
Neil Bousfield (Thomas)
Glenn Tomkinson (Wordsworth).
Also shown: three of 6 endpapers, by Kluz, Evans and Bousfield.
I briefed the printmakers to work within a limited colour palette to produce bespoke prints for the series. Each had to include one manmade object and a key element to be picked out in bright red.
Series style after the Faber 80th Poetry Series by Miriam Rosenbloom.
Read more about the Faber 'gift hardback' poetry edition designs in Pressing Matters #9
Published 2016

John Clare, Faber Nature Poets
Illustration by Andy Lovell

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Faber Nature Poets
Illustration by Ed Kluz

Thomas Hardy, Faber Nature Poets
Illustration by Melvyn Evans

John Keats, Faber Nature Poets
Illustration by Angela Harding

Edward Thomas, Faber Nature Poets
Illustration by Neil Bousfield

William Wordsworth, Faber Nature Poets
Illustration by Glenn Tomkinson

Thomas Hardy, printed endpaper
Artwork by Melvyn Evans

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, printed endpaper
Artwork by Ed Kluz

Edward Thomas, printed endpaper
Artwork by Neil Bousfield
