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The images were printed by Purnell \u0026amp; Sons using the demanding letterpress technique Minton made his own — built up in careful layers of colour rather than reproduced from a single artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eOriginal prints of this quality are increasingly scarce.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"john-minton-time-was-away-bay","title":"Time Was Away - Bay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOne of eight colour line-block prints from John Minton's 'Time Was Away' (John Lehmann, 1948), created after his 1947 journey through Corsica with the writer Alan Ross. 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