Legend lettered

6.a Standard: Quarter bound in green buckram cloth and cream paper for the panels with two hit foil stamping. Printed letterpress on Munken Rough Cream 120gsm paper. Only state with a dustjacket. Limitation 500.

6.b Deluxe: Blue goatskin binding handbound by the artisan’s at Ludlow’s Bookbinders. Three-pass foil stamping on the cover, spine and back. Printed letterpress two colours (black and blue) on Omnia Natural 120gsm paper. Limitation 200.

6.c Lettered: Full leather Pentland Crimson goat binding with blue leather onlay of Snaga, two colours of foil stamping. Printed letterpresson GF Smith Natralis 140gsm paper. Rounded spine, all 3 edges gilded gold. Limitation 26.

Lettered state

Limited to just 26 editions and printed letterpress on GF Smith Natralis 140gsm paper by Phil Abel at Hand & Eye Press, this edition features unique bindings, case and title setting.

Bound in finest Pentland Crimson goat with large blue leather onlay of Snaga covering the front/back covers. The design has two colours of foil stamping across the boards. All 3 edges of the book are gilded gold.

As with the previous editions there will be 6 tipped-in pieces of art (including a frontispiece). The Lettered also comes with a new unique marbled endpaper and foldout piece of art (the illustrated endpaper used in the other two editions).

It is housed in a fully leather-bound rounded solander case with Crimson Pentland goat. There are two axe heads embedded into the front and back boards of the Solander, and these were cast in an alloy of multiple metals by Peter Canham of Ystabl, Wales and hand-finished to give them their worn look. Each pair are unique.

There are three blue pentland goat onlays on the case, one large only on the spine, and two strips at the end of each board. The design is completed with two colours of hot foil stamping, and the trays are covered in a sumptuous dark blue.

This edition is signed by Stella Gemmell and Mark Lawrence as well as the artist Justin Sweet.

The other editions: Standard - Deluxe