Frozen Hell: The Roman Edition

The Roman Edition is limited to thirty copies for sale and is half-bradel bound in white Harmatan Katsina goatskin leather with multiple cut-outs to the front board.

The ice cave structure on the front board of this huge edition is created with multiple layers of thin binder’s board hand cut and laminated together. The leather is then painstakingly moulded and formed by hand until the layers reveal themselves. Once the leather is set, the inside of the ice cave is carefully foil blocked in two colours. Both the front and back boards for this edition are around 10mm thick which creates a considerable and weighty book.

All of the plates are tabbed or sewn in, allowing the double, treble and quad plates to open out without a stitched gutter.

The endpapers for this edition are an original, hand marbled design by Freya Scott of Paperwilds.

The book comes housed in a half-bradel bound solander box, also covered with Harmatan Katsina goatskin leather. The front board is split to create a crevasse in which the buried flying saucer lies. The saucer is foil blocked in three colours and the edges of the crevasse are hand cut from board before the leather is applied and then carefully moulded around the jagged edges. On the spine is a silk paper label, foil blocked in two colours. The solander box trays are double thickness and are covered in white Colorado cloth and lined with white suede and white leather. The large tray contains a foil blocked silhouette of the Thing. Inside the small tray, under the book, is a cloth-bound portfolio with a three-sided pocket containing a mounted original sketch by Gregory Manchess.

Binding is by Richard Tong and Sam Cartwright at Lyra’s Books/Ludlow Bookbinders.

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

Typeset in 11 point Monotype Baskerville by Nick Gill at Effra Press & Typefoundry.

Printed on Magnani Pescia Editioni 160 gsm

Trimmed page size 260 x 390 mm / 10.25 x 15.35 in

166 pages

16 colour plates, of which two are four-page foldouts, four are double-page spreads and one is a three-page foldout.

Thirteen black-and-white, relief-printed illustrations.

Signed by the artist, Gregory Manchess

Limited to 40 copies of which 30 are for sale and 10 are hors de commerce