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The Case of Death and Honey: The Artist's Edition

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200 x 325 mm / 7.9 in x 12.8 in


An edition of twenty-six lettered and eight publishers’ copies printed in black and red on deckle-edged hand-made paper specially commissioned from Gangolf Ulbricht.


Typeset in hot metal Monotype Baskerville and Gill Sans by Nick Gill at Effra Press and Typefoundry.

Letterpress printed on a FAG proof press by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington at Hand & Eye Editions.


Each book has bound in to the cover the original artwork of one of Gary Gianni’s illustrations.


Bradel bound by Richard Tong at Ludlow Bookbinders in off-white goatskin with a red leather spine. Foil blocked in seven colours on the cover and with five raised bands on the spine. The off-white leather cover has a cutout on front board that contains the original artwork. It is protected by removeable panel covered in cloth with Suedel protection and foil blocked in two colours.


Gicleé printed full colour frontispiece tipped in.

Head and tail bands. The book has 'set' headcaps where the leather is formed over the headbands.


Endpapers specially designed by Gary Gianni.


The book is housed in a handmade, full leather bradel bound solander box which has been designed by Richard Tong in red goatskin leather with cutouts front and back revealing two off-white leather panels foil blocked in eight colours. It's spine has a foil blocked leather labels with hand tooled gold lines added.


The box opens to reveal the book itself and two related volumes: An Introduction of Sorts by Neil Gaiman full bound in Colorado book cloth and limited to the thirty-four copies; and The Adventure of the Creeping Man by Arthur Conan Doyle, the story that inspired The Case of Death and Honey, letterpress printed in two colours, red and black, on a Heidelberg SB cylinder press by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington at Hand & Eye Editions; and a portfolio of prints of a selection of the black and white illustrations quarter bound in Colorado cloth and Elephanthide paper and foil blocked in black on the front. 


Each copy is signed by the Neil Gaiman and Gary Gianni.


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