Lalla Rookh

Designed and letterpress printed by Jamie Murphy & Niamh McNally at Distillers Press, NCAD, Dublin for the Lalla Rookh Bicentenary Symposium at Marsh’s Library, May 2017. Produced with the support of the School of Humanities, NUI Galway. The text is from page 63 of the first edition, printed 1817. The typeface is 22 point Monotype Caslon. The illustration is achieved through pressure printing from Irish rose leaves. Printed in an edition of 100 copies on 170 gsm Lambeth Acid Free.