Swan Song lettered

Description from Suntup Website

Our edition of American Gods by Neil Gaiman is presented in four states: Classic, Numbered, Lettered & Roman Numeral. The edition measures 170mm x 243mm (6¾” x 9⅝”) and features ten illustrations by award-winning artist Yoann Lossel, an introduction to the text & afterword by Neil Gaiman reprinted from an earlier edition, and the two American Gods sequel novellas, The Monarch of the Glen & Black Dog. There are nine full color illustrations and one monochrome illustration, all of which feature gold foil accents with offset print production supervised by the artist using his preferred printer.

Interior design & typography is by renowned designer Michael Russem. The text pages are set in Requiem types, and are printed letterpress by Pat Randle & Ellen Bills at Nomad Letterpress on a Heidelberg Cylinder in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

The Lettered edition is limited to 26 copies and is a Bradel binding in full hand-dyed goatskin with covers stamped in gold. The book is section sewn by hand on tapes. Head & tail bands are leather wrapped and embossed with gold foil. Endsheets are hand marbled for this edition by Emily Romero in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Each volume is housed in a quarter leather clamshell enclosure with European cloth sides and a hand-dyed leather spine label.

The front and back sections of each volume are black Hahnemühle Bugra with the frontispiece illustration tipped-on in volume 1 within an ornate frame foiled in three shades of gold. The edition is printed letterpress on 115 gsm mouldmade Somerset and is published in two volumes with a tipped-in fold-out of the Classic edition dust jacket art. This edition also includes a fine art print with genuine gold leaf, and it is handbound by Jacek Tylkowski in Komorniki, Poland.

Also check the other states of the book:

Classic edition - Numbered