After looking at Lizzie Allen's lovely wallpaper yesterday and comparing her work to Paul Hogarth's I started thinking about David Gentleman... as you do.
I love Gentleman's wood engravings at Charing Cross - massively enlarged so you can see all the tiny cuts in the wood.
I googled his work and found this series of book covers that I had forgotten - it was nestling at the back of my schoolgirl memory. A whole series of New Penguin Shakespeare. I'm fairly certain I used the Macbeth at school...
I don't really have room for an extra 32 paperbacks in my house so I think I will try and seek out a few choice versions with a more wood engraving slant .
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