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Ten years gone
2010 marks HM's tenth anniversary. We'll be marking the occasion with a new, updated checklist featuring original leaves from various projects. Copies of Elements in Correlation are being shipped out this month. Details of the edition are provided below. We're launching a new series of occasional publications, theIt was a tough slog, and a few times things looked grim, but the bound-up copies of our new book emerging from Claudia Cohen's bindery are restoring our spirits. Due in part to a last-minute reduction in the edition size, we have no more copies to offer. However, the book, in three different states, is available from our regular booksellers. For more details about the project and some images, go to this page. NEW! HM ARTISTS' PAMPHLET SERIES The studio is pleased to announce the launch of a new series of occasional pamphlets, each featuring the writing and artwork of an artist from outside the world of books and printing. The format will be uniform - an eight-page pamphlet, approx 6 x 11 inches, plus a frontis, sewn into a stiff wrap - but how each contributor chooses to use those pages is entirely up to them. This simple format will allow us to plan and produce each pamphlet relatively quickly, capturing the spirit and spontaneity of a first collaboration. The series will be launched by four new poems by previous HM collaborator Harold Budd, accompanied by a new etching. We have a wish-list of other contributors - spanning the worlds of music, film and literature - but cannot confirm any subsequent projects at this time. (We can, however, say that Number 2 in the series probably will appear before the end of 2010.) The series will proceed as and when pieces fall into place. Each title in the HM Artists' Pamphlet Series will be issued in our usual edition of 50 copies. To keep the business aspect of things simple, the entire series will essentially be hors de commerce: the editions will be split between HM and the artist, for private distribution. We will, however, be accepting ten patron subscriptions, to cover the costs of materials and printing of artwork by others (for example, the etching to be included with 4 will be editioned at New Leaf Editions). Patrons of the series will be invoiced upon receipt of each new title in the series. The cost will be $250.00 net per title. We anticipate the series to proceed, on average, at the pace of one new title annually. Subscriptions are initially offered exclusively to HM patrons. Anyone interested in subscribing should contact us, and we will accommodate them on a first-come basis, as availability allows. Harold Budd's 4 will be set by hand in Bembo and printed damp at HM with the Washington press. (We're still considering options for the paper; it probably will be a mould-made.) The frontis will be a new etching by Harold (initial proof opposite), printed chine collé by master printer Peter Braune. The sheets will be sewn up by Keith Lowe of MoonLiner Books into a printed, heavy handmade paper wrap. Numbers 1 to 40 will be distributed by the publisher and author; numbers 41 - 50 will be issued to patrons of the series. We expect the book to be completed by March of 2010. CHECKLIST NUMBER 3 Elements in Correlation will be followed in early 2010 by Checklist Number Three, marking the tenth anniversary of Heavenly Monkey's first publication. It will also be the first of our checklists to actually be printed at the studio. The edition will, therefore, not be large: we currently plan to issue 26 lettered copies, each containing sample leaves from approximately six of our books printed during the past decade. These leaves will track our experience learning how to print damp, starting with the disastrous The "Innsmouth Look" through to the Elements in Correlation, and be accompanied by a descriptive text. The format will be commensurate with Elements in Correlation, to which this checklist can be considered a companion volume. More details will be posted as they develop, but please do not wait to inquire or reserve copies, as our previous posts about this project already attracted orders for a significant portion of the planned edition. Following the checklist, we expect to be printing the next collaboration between Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen, titled The WunderCabinet. This will be the first of their books to actually be printed at Heavenly Monkey, with the handpress on a special batch of cotton and linen paper currently being made by Reg Lissel. See here for details. The cabinet will include, among many other items, a six-panel tunnel book, which was printed at HM on dampened Arches paper during the Christmas holidays (opposite). HEAVENLY MONKEY |
   Claudia & HM in her bindery, wrapping up copies of Elements of Correlation   |