Author(s): Stephen Farthing

Gardens

Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks Deluxe Edition is edited by Stephen Farthing and Ed Webb-Ingall. It comes with a preface by Tilda Swinton. Featuring contributions from Keith Collins, Christopher Hobbs, Andrew Logan, James Mackay, Jon Savage, Howard Sooley, Neil Tennant and Toyah Willcox. It is a deluxe slipcased edition. It includes three prints. Containing poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, Derek Jarman's sketchbooks are part autobiography and part social history, bursting with the energy and creativity of this groundbreaking artist. This publication collates the best of Jarman's sketchbooks to reveal the detailed planning and emotional engagement behind each of his films in more depth than ever before. This deluxe edition is limited to 500 copies, each presented in a cloth-covered slipcase. Each numbered copy is accompanied by three prints reproduced from the sketchbooks, housed in an envelope tipped into the book. The book, which is covered in real blue cloth with gold foil blocking on the spine and in a debossed recess on the frontboard, is c.15 per cent larger than the standard edition. It features 196 illustrations, 187 in colour, 31.0 x 24. 0cm, 256pp, ISBN 9780500517185.