Petal & Kiln

An illustrated cultural-history book where fine single-ink copperplate engravings meet bold abstract plaster colour, for museum talks and humanities lessons: warm ivory pages, big torn blocks of vermilion coral, malachite green, azurite blue and ochre with large engravings of people, tools, plants and vessels laid across their ragged edges, display serif set straight into the calm colour on section openers, a dotted date spine on a thin ink rule, and credited museum photographs beside the illustrations.