Special Edition

A beautifully illustrated, handwritten edition of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain, a text that blazed the trail for nature writing, by award-winning calligrapher and painter Susie Leiper.

The original bindings and their custom made clamshell boxes are on show at The Crafts Council gallery in Londonuntil the 13th of April 2924 as part of covered-uncovered, a joint exhibition by Designer Bookbinders and The Society of Scribes and Illuminators.

The hand lettered book has been bound by hand by JuJu Books as 6 volumes, sewn on linen tapes with hand dyed Japanese paper spine linings, each volume with its own subtle design of debossing, embossing and palladium tooling.

In this stunning calligraphic edition of The Living Mountain, Susie Leiper breathes new life into Nan Shepherd’s seminal outdoor classic. Written by Shepherd during World War II, The Living Mountain reads like a love letter to the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland

Thames & Hudson crowdfunder

The book could also be published by Thames & Hudson, if it reaches its funding target!
Rewards of limited edition clothbound books and prints Crowdfunder ends the 11th of April!
Find out more and reserve your copy!