Hyperion - Roman Numeral Edition - 3/3 Payment - Curious King

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Part of Series

This is a payment plan link for Hyperion – RN. 1 out of 3 payments.

£7,000 for the book

£120 for packaging and postage

3/3 = £2373.33

The Book

Completely covered in goatskin leather that has been hand marbled by Freya Scott of Paperwilds. The colours come from a description of the planet Hyperion from the book.

There is then a large piece of Harmatan fine goatskin onlay onto the case with three hits of foil stamping for the highlights and eyes. The spine has been rounded, and we also have brass letters spelling out the title of the book recessed into the leather for sturdiness.

The final production will have hand sewn head and tailbands, we have used a simple red and black for the prototype. We also have hand dyed and splattered across all three edges, and a red ribbon.

For the endpaper we’re using a tactile and textured high quality black paper with a foil stamped design on. The paper used is Liber Charta 145gsm and this edition also comes with a custom limitation page letterpress printed in two colours by Pat and Ellen at Nomad Letterpress.

This book features all the artwork from the other editions and has the Shrike and Consul endpapers as foldouts within the book.

Enclosure

The box has two pieces of milled aluminium for both the lid and backpiece, these have been metal plated with nickel to give a darker look to it than the anodised versions in these pictures (which I thought was fitting). The lid has been milled out of one single piece of metal to encompass the head of the Shrike and labrynth borderwork which is also on the backpiece.

Oak has been used on the rest of the enclosure, and this has been hand scorched black by our boxmaker and the edges have been milled out to complete the design. The lift has been secured with hinges and is held fast with a magnet when opening and closing.

Inside the box there is an inner well which houses both John Keats’ epic poem “Hyperion” and of course our Roman Numeral Edition. It is lined with black suedel and two red ribbons have been installed to ensure a smooth release of each book.

The inside of the lid has a piece of original artwork by Jaime Jones bound into it and finished with suedel. Each of these images follows one of the pieces contained within the book and have been hand drawn by Jaime using a crow quill and ink. This prototype does not have the art in, but the final production version will do.