Haein Song


Quiet Unmaking
Un—Folded
Whole
Light / Folds
Pain Memory
Marking Colour
A Brief History of...

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Advice to a Painter
Laudes Creaturarum
Topiary
Les Climats
Queen Mary's Dolls' House
Winter's Tale
The Fragments of Parmenides
The Botanical City
Ornamental Digressions
Hungry Bibliophiles
Interstices & Intersections
Perpetua and Felicity
In Principio
La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation
Dickinson's Selected Poems
Bram de Does
Russian Modernism
Beckett's Trilogy
The Songlines
Linear A to Linear Z
A Bend in the River
Mr. Palomar
Journey Round My Room
The Myth of Sisyphus
Romeo and Juliet
The Periodic Table
The Trial
Gogol's Collected Stories
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Just So Stories
Le Grand Meaulnes
Whistler
Don't Look Now

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Three Plays of the Absurd
Nine Books of the Absurd

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Advice to a Painter by Henry Savile

Bound in 2025

Circa 1679
304 x 198 x 10 mm

Full leather binding in blackberry goatskin with back-pared onlays in red and green goatskin. Leather joints and doublures are in the same shade. The endpapers are printed from photopolymer etching plates on 65gsm Genet by Paper Foundation, selected to closely match the colours of the broadside. The broadside is guarded with hand-coloured Japanese tissue and pasted to a section made from the same paper (65gsm Genet), which is then sewn onto the stub.

Advice to a Painter is a satirical poem that critiques the political and religious tensions of 17th-century England, particularly warning against the rise of Catholic influence. Attributed to Henry Savile, it was published anonymously. The design and colours were inspired by the emotions in the poem, beginning with suspicion, anxiety, and distrust, reflecting the tense political and religious climate (front cover), and concluding with cautious hope and confidence that these challenges can be faced and overcome (back cover). The endpapers layer all four pages of the poem to create a textured, almost abstract image, symbolising the power and complexity of the words and reflecting the poem's satirical tone and anonymous publication.

Private Collection, UK