Some photos of the Lettered/Artists edition, this book is unique, the art shown on the cover is just one of the originals that Gary Gianni did for ‘The Case of Death and Honey’ so each book is different depending on what the original is, we’ll be putting out the full specs and price in a few days. And showing the secrets of the Solander box that the book fits into…

These Gary Gianni illustrations for ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’ by Arthur Conan Doyle. A professor has found the serum for an animal life…

Gary Gianni illustrations for ‘The Case of Death and Honey’ by Neil Gaiman, with nearly forty full page images, after the death of Mycroft and the challenge he gives Sherlock Holmes, Holmes travels the world to find a very particular bee. Old Gao may have the secret to the rare species of black bee…

Here are the specs and prices for the Fine edition of ‘The Case of Death and Honey’ by Neil Gaiman and the companion book which inspired Neil to write his story, ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’ by Arthur Conan Doyle.
There will be an added slipcase available to hold both copies of these Hot Metal type letterpress books.
They are both bound in Hudson red cloth with extensive foil blocking on both.

I’ll be showing the oversized lettered edition of ‘The Case of Death and Honey next week.

THE FINE EDITION of
The case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman

175 x 265 mm / 6.9in x 10.4in

An edition of 500 numbered copies and 70 publishers’ copies of The Case of Death and Honey was hot metal letterpress printed in two colours, red and black, on a Heidelberg SB cylinder press by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington at Hand & Eye Press. The black was printed in two workings. Hot-metal typesetting by Nick Gill at Effra Press and Typefoundry.

Printed on Mohawk Superfine paper.

Full bound in red Hudson book cloth by Green Street Bindery.

Four foil blocked passes cover and spine.

Endpapers specially designed by Gary Gianni and Richard Tong.

Thirty-nine full page and one-half page illustrations and decorations by Gary Gianni.

One full colour painting by Gary Gianni.

Each copy is signed by the artist.

Price £95

THE FINE EDITION of
THE ADVENTURE OF THE CREEPING MAN
by Arthur Conan Doyle

175 x 265 mm / 6.9in x 10.4in

An edition of 500 numbered copies and 70 publishers’ copies of The Adventure of the Creeping Man was hot metal letterpress printed in two colours, red and black, on a Heidelberg SB cylinder press by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington at Hand & Eye editions
. The black was printed in two workings. Hot-metal typesetting by Nick Gill at Effra Press and Typefoundry.

Printed on Mohawk Superfine paper.

Full bound in red book cloth by Green Street Bindery.

Four Foil blocked passes cover and spine.

Four unique Full page illustrations and decorations by Gary Gianni.

Each copy is signed by the artist.

Price: £90

photos by Tif Hunter

I like detailed specs on books, I know that some people in the trade like to keep them short and pithy but I like everything, so for the bibliophiles:

Book –
175 x265 mm / 6.9in x 10.4in

This edition of 250 numbered copies and 30 publishers’ copies of The Case of Death and Honey was hot metal letterpress printed in two colours, red and black, on a Heidelberg cylinder press by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington at Hand & Eye Editions. The black was printed in two workings. Hot-metal typesetting by Nick Gill at Effra Press.

The paper is 145 gsm Mouldmade Zerkall paper.

Book binding is by Richard Tong at Ludlow Bookbinders, designed by Richard Tong and Gary Gianni, art directed by Marcelo Anciano.

Book designed by Marcelo Anciano.

Fully bound in off-white goatskin leather with a French groove between the spine and boards. The front and back boards have been foil blocked extensively with 6 passes to the front, two to the back and two to the spine. Ten in total. To the spine there are five raised bands which have been hand tooled with gold lines. The book has ‘set’ headcaps (where the leather is formed over the headbands). The top edge of the book has been hand gilded, with the bottom (tail) edge being deckled.

Slipcase – made from strong 3mm book board and lined with dark red suedel. The box is covered in Ratchford’s black, textured Coral cloth with a raised goatskin leather label. The label is foil blocked with four passes of blocking.

Thirty-nine full page black and white line illustrations and one half page plus multiple decorations by Gary Gianni.

Tipped in full colour frontispiece

Unique designed endpapers by Gary Gianni

Each copy is signed by Neil Gaiman and Gary Gianni.

Price £395

Another of Gary Gianni’s, always surprising, images for Neil Gaiman’s The Case of Death and Honey, forty full page illustrations and one painting illuminate Neil’s tale of magic realism. There are so many great iconic images to choose from, but, for now, I’ll stick with Mycroft and Sherlock.

‘I had imagined that his illness might have wasted him away, but he seemed huger than ever, his fingers swollen into white suet sausages.
I said, ‘‘Good evening Mycroft. Doctor Hopkins tells me you have two weeks to live, and stated that I was under no circumstances to inform you of this.’’’