The Histories (Limited Edition)

About the Illustrator

“I appreciated the darkness of the period — half pagan and half animist — and representing a world with a genuine belief in gods.” – Nick Hayes

Each of the nine ‘books’ that make up The Histories opens with a magnificent double–page image produced by printmaker, graphic novelist, environmentalist and ‘professional trespasser’ Nick Hayes. Created using modern digital technology, these atmospheric illustrations simultaneously evoke the muscular figures and geometric designs of ancient Greek decorative pottery, recall the British linocut tradition embodied by Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious, and reflect Hayes’s own love of landscape and the natural world. His integrated illustrative scheme also includes gold-patterned motifs for the endpapers and slipcase lining, powerful black and gold images on the binding and slipcase, and an arresting frontispiece portrait of Herodotus based on an 18th–century sculpture.

About the Illustrator

“I appreciated the darkness of the period — half pagan and half animist — and representing a world with a genuine belief in gods.” – Nick Hayes

Each of the nine ‘books’ that make up The Histories opens with a magnificent double–page image produced by printmaker, graphic novelist, environmentalist and ‘professional trespasser’ Nick Hayes. Created using modern digital technology, these atmospheric illustrations simultaneously evoke the muscular figures and geometric designs of ancient Greek decorative pottery, recall the British linocut tradition embodied by Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious, and reflect Hayes’s own love of landscape and the natural world. His integrated illustrative scheme also includes gold-patterned motifs for the endpapers and slipcase lining, powerful black and gold images on the binding and slipcase, and an arresting frontispiece portrait of Herodotus based on an 18th–century sculpture.

About the Illustrator

“I appreciated the darkness of the period — half pagan and half animist — and representing a world with a genuine belief in gods.” – Nick Hayes

Each of the nine ‘books’ that make up The Histories opens with a magnificent double–page image produced by printmaker, graphic novelist, environmentalist and ‘professional trespasser’ Nick Hayes. Created using modern digital technology, these atmospheric illustrations simultaneously evoke the muscular figures and geometric designs of ancient Greek decorative pottery, recall the British linocut tradition embodied by Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious, and reflect Hayes’s own love of landscape and the natural world. His integrated illustrative scheme also includes gold-patterned motifs for the endpapers and slipcase lining, powerful black and gold images on the binding and slipcase, and an arresting frontispiece portrait of Herodotus based on an 18th–century sculpture.

About the Illustrator

“I appreciated the darkness of the period — half pagan and half animist — and representing a world with a genuine belief in gods.” – Nick Hayes

Each of the nine ‘books’ that make up The Histories opens with a magnificent double–page image produced by printmaker, graphic novelist, environmentalist and ‘professional trespasser’ Nick Hayes. Created using modern digital technology, these atmospheric illustrations simultaneously evoke the muscular figures and geometric designs of ancient Greek decorative pottery, recall the British linocut tradition embodied by Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious, and reflect Hayes’s own love of landscape and the natural world. His integrated illustrative scheme also includes gold-patterned motifs for the endpapers and slipcase lining, powerful black and gold images on the binding and slipcase, and an arresting frontispiece portrait of Herodotus based on an 18th–century sculpture.

About the Illustrator

“I appreciated the darkness of the period — half pagan and half animist — and representing a world with a genuine belief in gods.” – Nick Hayes

Each of the nine ‘books’ that make up The Histories opens with a magnificent double–page image produced by printmaker, graphic novelist, environmentalist and ‘professional trespasser’ Nick Hayes. Created using modern digital technology, these atmospheric illustrations simultaneously evoke the muscular figures and geometric designs of ancient Greek decorative pottery, recall the British linocut tradition embodied by Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious, and reflect Hayes’s own love of landscape and the natural world. His integrated illustrative scheme also includes gold-patterned motifs for the endpapers and slipcase lining, powerful black and gold images on the binding and slipcase, and an arresting frontispiece portrait of Herodotus based on an 18th–century sculpture.