Benjamin Button: The Lettered Edition

F Scott Fitzgerald 's short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was first published in 1922. The eponymous hero is born in Baltimore in 1860 with the physical characteristics of a seventy-year old man. As time passes his appearance becomes younger and younger. It was the basis of the acclaimed 2018 film of the same name starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.

Now Dave McKean has made seventeen stunning three-colour relief prints for our seventy-two page edition. Three of them are over two pages and are bound into the book on tabs so that they open flat.

Printed letterpress in three colours by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington on a Heidelberg cylinder press at Hand & Eye Editions

Typeset in Baskerville

Printed on Liber Charta 170 gsm

Trimmed page size 280 x 200 mm / 11 x 7.8 in

72 pages

Signed by the artist, Dave McKean

Limited to 32 copies of which 26 are for lettered A-Z for sale and 10 hors de commerce copies marked in red roman numerals

The book is fully bound with a square spine in chocolate brown Canada Grain cow hide. There are two passes of foil blocking to the front board in black and cream and one pass to the spine in cream. All three of the page edges are gilded.
The book comes in a cloth covered solander box with a large leather label affixed to the front. The label is foil blocked in three passes, with a further pass to the spine in black.

Remarqued with an original Dave McKean illustration.