Enitharmon, founded in 1967, is the leading British publisher of artists’ books, prints and literary editions.
“Enitharmon is a rare and wonderful phenomenon.” Dame Marina Warner
Working with some of the most distinguished artists and writers of the age, we specialise in artists’ books, prints and literary editions. Our artworks include etchings, lithographs, photogravures and paintings. Our literary editions of poetry and prose are recognised for their high standards of production.
Many of our publications have found their way into some of the most important museums and libraries in the world as well as many corporate and private collections. A complete list of the institutions who have collected our work can be foundhere.
Caroline Walker, Nocturnes – Twilight
Caroline Walker, Nocturnes – Early Evening
Caroline Walker, Nocturnes – Late Evening
Caroline Walker, Nocturnes – Midnight
Caroline Walker, Initiations – Adornment
Featured Artist – Caroline Walker
Caroline Walker was born in 1982 in Scotland. She studied painting at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. Even before graduation she was recognised one of the most outstanding artists of her generation, echoing the concerns and aesthetic of some of the great artists of the last two centuries, among them Manet, Vuillard, Bonnard and Hopper, and the Impressionists Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot.
Walker’s paintings, which reveal the diverse social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society, have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world and enthusiastically collected by public institutions, corporate bodies and private clients.
Her work provides a tantalising window into the everyday lives of women of different ages, races and circumstances, highlighting the often overlooked jobs performed by women and the psychologically charged spaces they inhabit.
Walker also excels as a printmaker. Enitharmon is the sole publisher of her lithographic series:Initiations (2014),Sunset (2018) and most recentlyNocturnes (2023), a set of four new prints which like her latest paintings show a shift towards portraiture and family life. These highly collectible lithographs make purchases of the work of this leading contemporary artist possible for wider audiences.
Philip Pearlstein & Paul Muldoon ‘The Castle of Perseverance’
Tony Bevan & Harold Pinter ‘The Disappeared & Other Poems’
Sandra Fisher & Thomas Meyer – ‘Monotypes & Tracings’
Duane Michals – ‘Empty New York II’
Duane Michals – ‘Empty New York III’
Peter Blake – ‘Paris Escapades’
Duane Michals – ‘Texas 1964 I’
Artists’ Books
Our artists’ books, in the tradition of the livre d’artiste, contain loose-leaf signed limited edition prints, drawings or photogravures by artists such as Peter Blake, Jim Dine, Antony Gormley and Duane Michals.
These works are a distinctive fusion of literature and visual art involving collaborations between leading artists and writers. They offer a unique, tactile experience, engaging the senses in ways ordinary books cannot.
Artists’ books are handcrafted in limited editions, making each copy a collectable item. An added advantage is that, unlike individual artworks, artists’ books do not attract VAT.
Our list comprises the work of distinguished artists, from the father of British Pop Art Sir Peter Blake and his friend and contemporary David Hockney to the American masters Jim Dine and Duane Michals. Younger stars include Sonia Boyce, Glenn Brown, Antony Gormley, Hew Locke, and one of the outstanding figures of today’s art world, Caroline Walker. In recent decades we frequently had the pleasure of working with one of the greatest of figurative artists, Dame Paula Rego.
In the print-and-poem series with Jealous Gallery, collaborations have involved Charming Baker, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Rachel Howard, Gary Hume, Chris Levine, David Shrigley, Gavin Turk, Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood.
Techniques and Formats
The signed, limited-edition artworks are in a variety of formats and mediums. Etchings and lithographs predominate but there are also significant projects involving photogravures, ink-wash drawings, paintings and original silkscreen and digital prints.
Our collection of established and emerging literary voices includes Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winners and Royal Society of Literature Fellows. From literary heavyweights such as Geoffrey Hill, U A Fanthorpe, Paul Muldoon and Michael Longley to cutting-edge contemporary voices like Sean Bonney, Nancy Campbell and Keston Sutherland, our list has a depth and breadth of form and style which is united by literary excellence.
Our prose collection features literary essays, biographies and short stories from distinctive writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries including John Banville, Sebastian Barry, Ronald Blythe, David Gascoyne, Edward Thomas, Edward Upward and Denton Welch.
Our signed limited editions are highly collectable. These special books are bound in cloth, leather or marbled-wrappers, sometimes slipcased and hand-printed on rare papers. Bibliophiles will relish the unique features of some of these books, such as hand-written poems or inscriptions. We are honoured to have worked with some of the greatest binders and printers in the field, such as The Rampant Lions Press, Libanus Press and the Fine Book Bindery, to produce these exquisite literary artefacts.
“William Blake dreamed up the original Enitharmon as one of his inspiriting, good, female daemons, and his own spirit as a poet-artist, printer-publisher still lives in the press which bears the name of his creation. Enitharmon is a rare and wonderful phenomenon, a press where books are shaped into artefacts of lovely handiwork as well as communicators of words and worlds. The writers and the artists published here over the last fifty years represent a truly historic gathering of individuals with an original vision and an original voice […] Like an ecologist who manages to restock the meadows with a nearly vanished species of wild flower or brings a rare pair of birds back to found a colony, this publisher has dedicatedly and brilliantly made a success of that sharply endangered species, the independent press.”
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Caroline Walker, Nocturnes – Early Evening
