May 2022

Ready to leave!! Yay!

Numbered slipcases ready to go! I can’t wait to see them get into the hands of you all!

Richard Tong sent these pics over (as he works tirelessly over the weekend! 😀) finishing the numbered edition – gold lining and a big pile of used gold next to it, after tooling thousands of lines by hand!

Repost from the Hand and Eye Instagram

The next book from Areté Editions is now on the press. Look out for the pre-sale announcement for ‘Words of Fire’, poems by Neil Gaiman.

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Here is another poem by Neil Gaiman, (which I’m also pretty sure has never been printed on paper, but will be soon!); In Transit,
Maria Popova from https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/10/29/in-transit-neil-gaiman-eddington/

Has written another beautiful piece about the poem, I don’t know who she is and I hope she doesn’t mind me showing some of her words:

Eddington was an avid cyclist and usually rode alone, but he began going on long rides with Charles, talking about mathematics and literature…. Charles eventually took a mathematics post and spiraled into mental illness. Eddington never married, never had another intimate bond. He lived out his days with his sister, Winifred, who also never married. I picture him Turing-like — in his genius, in his misapprehended awkwardness, in his loneliness and heartbreak.

That invisible private side to the public genius is what Gaiman takes up with empathic perceptiveness and great tenderness in his poem, celebrating what he calls these “twin suns” of Eddington’s life and, through the diffraction that is all great art, celebrating the twin suns of the public self and the private self, of genius and loneliness, of intellectual heroism and emotional heartbreak, that shine in varying degrees on every human life.

Neil starts reading his poem about 4.10 seconds in

Here’s a poem, (which I’m pretty sure has never been printed on paper, but will be soon!) by Neil Gaiman, The Mushroom Hunters…

“the poem went on to win the Rhysling Award for best long poem and has now been brought to new life in a soulful short film, animated by artist Caroline Rudge and Creative Connection Animation Studio, narrated by Amanda (Palmer), and with music by the otherworldly talent Jherek Bischoff….dedicated to trailblazing astronomer Maria Mitchell and celebrating women’s underheralded contribution to science, he delivered something of singular enchantment — a work of lyrical storytelling tracing the history of our species as the sense making, truth-seeking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love. At its heart is an imaginative antidote to women’s erasure from the selective collective memory we call history.” words by Maria Popova taken from https://www.themarginalian.org/

This drawing by Greg Manchess is intended for foil blocking on the cover of “Frozen Hell” by John W Campbell Jnr to be published later this year by Arete Editions 📚

We are getting there, shipping of the books are imminent! The Fine edition of Neil’s The Case of Death and Honey will be going out with The Creeping Man, then the numbered edition goes out and finally, the lettered editions, because of their complexity, will go out in the following week, I can’t wait!

Rich has spent the bank holiday weekend making Neil Gaiman’s The Case of Death and Honey, foil blocking and gilding and creating the leather labels, they are looking pretty splendid and he hopes to get the books out in the next week or so!

A page from our latest Arete Editions project, “Words of Fire” by Neil Gaiman.
The motif runs throughout the book , printed at Hand and Eye 📚 🔥.