Merivale Editions has published a portfolio of seven etchings and engravings printed from the original copper plates made by Edgar Holloway between 1932 & 1991.

Edgar Holloway was born in Doncaster in 1914. He largely taught himself printmaking from books, although he did attend evening classes at Doncaster School of Art, and later during the 1930's at the Slade in London. His first one-man exhibition was held at the Twenty One Gallery in 1931. Since that time his work has been regularly purchased by the British Museum which now has a collection of sixteen Holloway prints.

Influenced by the writings of Eric Gill, Holloway visited Pigotts and met Mary Gill in 1940. Subsequently he visited Capel-y-ffin where he met and within six weeks married Gill's model Daisy Monica Hawkins. Through most of the 1940's they lived in Capel-y-ffin. In 1949 he was invited by Philip Hagreen to join the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic, and moved to Ditchling Common, where he still lives.

During the 1950's and 60's he made his living drawing maps and designing book jackets and only resumed etching in 1968. Since that time his reputation as a printmaker has grown steadily with exhibitions in Britain and America, culminating in a major retrospective at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

THE PRINTS The plates chosen for the portfolio are:- Self Portrait 1932, Eastcote 1932, Essex Street Watergate 1934, Grey Topper 1937, Daisy Monica 1977, Orchard Moon 1990, The Afghan Hat 1991. Edgar Holloway's copper plates have been printed by Anthony Dyson at the Black Star Press. All seven of the prints are numbered and signed by the artist and stamped with the edition mark.

THE PORTFOLIO The prints are presented in a cloth covered solander box, hand-made by Smith Settle. A title leaf and colophon has been printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.The edition limited to 40 sets.