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£1,950.00
Price plus shipping and handling of £25 UK and £55 Worldwide.
One copy per household – see Pre-Order Details below.
Winners will be given the opportunity to purchase this edition and will be chosen at random. You will be emailed if successful. If you don’t receive an email then unfortunately you were not selected. One entry per household.
Limited to 26 copies
Trimmed page size – 265 x 175mm
Signed by Gary Gianni (artist) and Simon Callow (afterword contributor).
Printed letterpress on 160gsm Zerkall Special Making paper by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington of Hand and Eye Letterpress. Black ink throughout with red and black title, half title and chapter opening pages.
6 colour plates, including the author photograph frontispiece. With 12 full page black relief drawings and title page, printed letterpress to the page.
5 illustrated stave headings printed letterpress in black and red.
The lettered edition is fully bound in white Harmatan ‘Katsina’ goatskin leather with a four colour, foil blocked ‘Marley’ design by Gary Gianni across the entirety of the cover. Front and back boards are blind tooled with single line frames.
Gilded top edge. Deckled bottom edge.
Hand marbled endpapers by Freya Scott of Paperwilds.
The book comes in a bradel bound solander box with a black leather spine and cloth covered front and back boards. A letterpress printed Gianni drawing is presented within a frame to the front board. Internally, the trays are covered in black silk cloth and lined with white suedel. The book is presented inside the box along with a cloth covered portfolio containing a giclee print of each of the colour paintings from within the book, each numbered and signed by the artist. The prints were printed by the art studio that scanned the paintings, overseen and approved by the artist, and represent the closest match to the original paintings as it is possible to be.
This edition is limited to 26 numbered copies. All copies will first be offered privately to current Lyra’s Classics rights holders from Monday the 28th of November to Thursday the 1st of December. Any copies not taken up by current rights holders will be available by public lottery ONLY. If this happens, the lottery form will be open on this page from 12pm midday GMT on Saturday the 3rd of December to 12pm midday GMT on Monday the 5th of December. Winners will be notified by email within a couple of days. The option to purchase will be in place for 48 hours from the timestamp of the notification email, after which any un-purchased copies will be offered to someone else. If we fail to sell all copies through the lottery, these remaining copies will become available shortly afterwards on the website.
All copies carry rights to the next title in the Lyra’s Classics imprint.
Read more about how the rights system works.
There is a ‘one entry per household’ rule in place for the lottery. Multiple entries will be deleted and you will be banned from the lottery.
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