Words of Fire: The Portfolio Edition

The Portfolio Edition is limited to forty copies and of which twenty-eight are available for sale. It comprises a set of individual letterpress prints of each poem together with a limited edition silkscreen print signed by Bill Sienkiewicz and printed by Jealous Studios London. Each poem has been typeset in hot metal Monotype Bembo by Effra Press and Typefoundry and letterpress printed by Robert Hetherington and Phil Abel at Hand & Eye Editions on deckle-edged paper hand made by Gangolf Ulbricht with an Arete watermark.

It is full bound in dark grey Windsor cloth with two passes of foil blocking to the front board in black and white. The title is foil blocked to the spine in black. Inside, the portfolio is lined with red Colorplan paper with a four-tongue pocket to enclose the prints. Foil blocked in black and gold on the front tongue.

The slipcase is capped top and bottom with the same dark grey Windsor cloth and wrapped with a hand printed paper by Vintage Paper Co of Orkney. The design is printed over a selection of Neil’s poems.

The binding is by Richard Tong at Ludlow Bookbinders.

The limitation is signed by both Bill Sienkiewicz and Neil Gaiman.