The Island of Dr. Moreau lettered

Description from Suntup Website

The limited edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells is presented in three states: Lettered, Numbered and Artist. The editions measure 6” x 9” and feature six full color illustrations by Benz and Chang as well as an exclusive foreword by Megan Shepherd and an afterword by Adam Roberts. The text pages are set in Monotype Bell, with the Numbered and Lettered editions printed letterpress by Norman Clayton in Ojai, California.

Included in all editions is the following bonus content:

• Appendix A: Wells Explains: Two Essays Relating to Moreau’s Argument.
  H.G. Wells, The Province of Pain (1894)
  H.G. Wells, The Limits of Individual Plasticity (1895)

• Appendix B: ‘The Terrible Medusa Case’: An Historical Source for Prendick’s Shipwreck.
  A narrative account of the infamous shipwreck Méduse (1818).
  Reproduction of Théodore Géricault’s masterpiece painting The Raft of the Medusa (c.1819).

• Appendix C: Wells’s First Draft of Moreau.
  A study and excerpt from H.G. Wells’s original draft of Moreau.

The Lettered edition is limited to 26 copies and is a full goatskin binding with a letterpress printed spine label. The cover features a letterpress printed, die cut map of Noble’s Isle. Endsheets are hand marbled and the edition is printed letterpress on Mohawk Via. The clamshell enclosure is covered in Japanese cloth with marbled paper floors. The edition is signed by Megan Shepherd, Adam Roberts & Benz and Chang.

Also check the other states of the book:

Numbered - Lettered

Check out the Suntup publications of H.G. Wells:

The Time Machine - The Invisible Man - The War of the Worlds