We present to you the Roman Edition of FROZEN HELL! So excited to reveal this extraordinary book, two years in the making, huge in scale, the fold flat plates, a couple are four-page foldouts, that open to nearly a metre in length! Almost the same size as the original paintings and the largest possible print size for the paper we are using. We really wanted to have a feeling of the books that were made for Fine artists a hundred years ago but using contemporary illustrators. Each book comes with a window mounted drawing that Greg used to create the artwork.
ROMAN EDITION
The Roman edition is limited to 30 copies for sale and is half-bradel bound in white Harmatan ‘Katsina’ goatskin leather with multiple cut-outs to the front board.
The ice cave structure on the front board of this huge edition is created with multiple layers of thin binder’s board hand cut and laminated together. The leather is then painstakingly moulded and formed by hand until the layers reveal themselves. Once the leather is set, the inside of the ice cave is carefully foil blocked in two colours. Both the front and back boards for this edition are around 10mm thick which creates a considerable and weighty book.
All of the plates are tabbed or sewn in, allowing the double, treble and quad plates to open out without a stitched gutter.
The endpapers for this edition are an original, hand marbled design by Freya Scott of Paperwilds.
The book comes housed in a half-bradel bound solander box, also covered with Harmatan ‘Katsina’ goatskin leather. The front board is split to create a crevasse in which the buried flying saucer lies. The saucer is foil blocked in three colours and the edges of the crevasse are hand cut from board before the leather is applied and then carefully moulded around the jagged edges. On the spine is a silk paper label, foil blocked in two colours. The solander box trays are double thickness and are covered in white Colorado cloth and lined with white suede and white leather. The large tray contains a foil blocked silhouette of the ‘thing’. Inside the small tray, under the book, is a cloth bound portfolio with a three-sided pocket containing an original, mounted sketch by Greg Manchess.
Binding is by Richard Tong and Sam Cartwright at Lyra’s Books/Ludlow Bookbinders.
You can see videos of how this edition is created HERE: https://arete-editions-blog.com/frozen-hell-roman-edition/
Printed letterpress in two colours by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington on a
Heidelberg cylinder press at Hand & Eye Editions.
Set in metal monotype Baskerville 12pt.
Cast by Nick Gill at Effra Press.
The paper is Magnani Pescia 160 gsm
Trimmed page size –260mm x 390mm / 10.25in x 15.35in.
Page count – 166
Number of illustrations – 16 colour plates, 2 four-page foldouts, 4 double page spreads and 1 three-page foldout plate.
13 black and white relief printed illustrations.
Signed by the artist Greg Manchess.
Limitation – 40 copies of which 30 are for sale and 10 Hors de Commerce
Price: £2950
ESTIMATED PUBLICATION Spring 2024
