A lot of Gaiman! Some pics from the studio floor, showing the different shelves that hold the metal type, you can see, along with Neil’s Case of Death and Honey, drawers for the Creeping Man too.
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The Artist’s edition of Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Case of Death and Honey’ is printed on handmade paper especially made by Gangolf Ulbricht, look! We have got an Arete watermark! I hope you can see the image … simple pleasures.
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This is a long clip, I was in two minds as to whether to show this, but it is pretty neat I think.
When Rich had finished the production of his bindings, he sent them to us. As Neil was in New Zealand and Gary was in Chicago, it wasn’t possible to send them over to them, so I made a personal film of me first opening the books.
The numbered edition interiors were printed using an ink jet print just to see how the book would look inside, NOT letterpressed, as Phil was deep into printing all the different editions. The paper, although the right stock, was printed against the grain; which means that the pages open stiffly and don’t lay open, which they will when we print with the grain of the paper stock correct.
It was only intended to show Neil and Gary, so things like the solander box being a couple of millimetres too tall, which meant that the artist’s original art plug moved, which it won’t, and our cat wanting to see too and my partners reaction to seeing Gary’s art for the first time are all in there. And my embracingly inarticulate ramblings, I was actually too gobsmacked by the books. That’s my excuse anyway.
But what it does show to Neil and Gary is what the productions will end up like, so I thought I’d show this. It is long!
Hope you don’t find it boring.
btw, I have very large hands!
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We have 1 numbered edition and 2 artist’s/lettered editions left! Thank you all so much, we are overwhelmed by your support, 🥰
EDIT; store is now telling us that the numbered edition has sold out! 😲
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Another art day. With making these books it is the pleasure of working with artists, like Gary Gianni, that really satisfies me as a creator/designer, just seeing how they make a picture work. This is rarely shown to people who see just a finished book, but I think is really cool!
This is one of the four new illustrations that Gary has done for ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’ by Arthur Conan Doyle, the story that inspired Neil Gaiman to write his Holmes story, ‘The Case of Death and Honey’. This image didn’t go through some of the radical changes that some of the others required, we always wanted a ‘classic’ Holmes image with Watson, and what was better than Holmes telling Watson, what was what.
What I like about this series of images is that you can see how Gary decides the composition in a thumbnail then light and dark values in the more formed drawing, then he decides what the room would look like without those values, firming up the image detail, then, which you can see with the final illustration where he combines the two, both the light and dark values and the details. Letterpress printing is like photographic woodblocks done on photopolymer plates, so Phil Abel from Hand and Eye Editions, Arete publisher, had to do loads of tests to make all the details come through, God bless him, it was a long process.
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A sheet from the Artist’s Edition of The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman. Letterpress printed from metal type cast by Effra Press on hand-made paper specially made for this book by Gangolf Ulbricht, printed by Hand and Eye now available for pre-order via our website.
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Taking a break from showing the books we have for sale, next week, I hope, to show more of the elaborate printing that goes into Letterpress. Now, it’s an art day. Here is the image for Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Case of Death and Honey’ as Holmes himself says in the story;
‘But when each crime is soluble, and so easily soluble at that, why then there is no point in solving them.
Look: this man has been murdered. Well then, someone murdered him. He was murdered for one or more of a tiny handful of reasons: he inconvenienced someone, or he had something that someone wanted, or he had angered someone.
Where is the challenge in that?’
…
‘I am only alive when I perceive a challenge.’
I love seeing the progression of Gary’s art here, how he started to create the image’s values by having the alley and how that became a wall with the curved light behind, in order to create the right tone for the figures. Wonderful stuff.
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Wow, what a day yesterday was! Amazing. And to top it all we get mentioned in Tripwire mag:
https://tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/neil-gaiman-writes-and-gary-gianni-draws-illustrated-sherlock-holmes-limited-edition-book/?fbclid=IwAR0mP3rwxg0OEC5vkgegMGo2r_95Wc9HQRG9iNPu9R3C9Yq4B9AQehKxRuc
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Thank you all! We had a couple of glitches which we fixed on the run, most have sold but all editions are still available, you don’t have to panic buy! Thank you again, we all think that you will be extremely pleased with your books, from the team at Arete, Phil, Rich and myself, marcelo
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The pre-order for ‘The Case of Death and Honey’ limited edition opens today at 5pm UK time (BST).
These wonderful books can be bought today!
Orders can be placed from 5pm sharp UK time (BST).
If you have visited the web site before, make sure you refresh your browser.
You will be able to pay via PayPal or credit/debit card (Mastercard/Visa).
Full pricing can be found in the shop and on the product pages now – on Saturday 4 September at https://www.arete-editions.com
After you have placed an order you will be sent a confirmation email to the email address you provided at checkout.
Please be aware that these are a very, very, complex productions for Richard Tong at Ludlow Bookbinders, so will take many months to physically make!
Thank you all
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