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Numbered Edition
A Christmas Carol
In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
A Christmas Carol
In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
by
Charles Dickens
Numbered Edition
Print Run:
250
Pages:
158
Trimmed Page Size:
265 x 175mm
Paper:
160gsm Heritage Archival White
Printing:
Letterpress in black and red ink
Binding:
Fully bound in dark green, natural grain, Nigerian goatskin
Presentation:
Tipped in colour plates with loose tissue guards. Gilded top edge
Box:
Cloth wrapped slipcase
Signatures:
Gary Gianni – Artist
SOLD OUT
£500.00
Price plus shipping and handling of £25 UK and £55 Worldwide.
One copy per household – see Pre-Order Details below.
Numbered Lottery Closed
Lottery registration for the remaining Numbered copies of ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ is now closed.
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.
Numbered Edition Details
Limited to 250 copies
Trimmed page size – 265 x 175mm
Signed by Gary Gianni (artist)
Printed letterpress on 160gsm Heritage Archival White 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 numbered edition is fully bound in dark green, natural grain, Nigerian goatskin leather with a two colour, foil blocked ‘Marley’ design by Gary Gianni to the front board. Front and back boards foil blocked with gold frames. The title, author and artist names are foil blocked to the spine in gold.
Gilded top edge.
Silhouette endpapers with a design by Gary Gianni, offset printed in 6 passes by Hurtwood Press.
The book comes in a curved edge, cloth covered slipcase with a gold foil blocked design by Gary Gianni to the front.
Numbered Edition Pre-Order Details
This edition is limited to 250 numbered copies. The first 150 copies will be offered privately to current Lyra’s Classics rights holders from Monday the 28th of November to Thursday the 1st of December. The next 100 copies (no rights), plus those not taken up by current rights holders (rights copies), will be available by public lottery ONLY. 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 and as to whether they have the option to purchase a copy with rights or without. This 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.
Copies numbered 1-150 will carry rights to the next Lyra’s Classics title and copies numbered 151 – 250 will not carry rights at all.
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.
Click here to see our rules around the lotteries on the FAQ page
