
Legend standard
David Gemmell
Publication year
Limitation
Curious King
2024
500
Author signature
Artist
Introduction
No
Justin Sweet
Stella Gemmell / Mark Lawrence
List Price
Median Market Value
Recorded Sales
£185
No Data
0
6.a Standard: Quarter bound in green buckram cloth and cream paper for the panels with two hit foil stamping. Printed letterpress on Munken Rough Cream 120gsm paper. Only state with a dustjacket. Limitation 500.
6.b Deluxe: Blue goatskin binding handbound by the artisan’s at Ludlow’s Bookbinders. Three-pass foil stamping on the cover, spine and back. Printed letterpress two colours (black and blue) on Omnia Natural 120gsm paper. Limitation 200.
6.c Lettered: Full leather Pentland Crimson goat binding with blue leather onlay of Snaga, two colours of foil stamping. Printed letterpresson GF Smith Natralis 140gsm paper. Rounded spine, all 3 edges gilded gold. Limitation 26.
Standard state
Limited to 500 copies only, the Standard edition is 366 pages, printed letterpress on Munken Rough Cream 120gsm by Phil Abel at Hand & Eye Press in London.
This is the only version that comes with Justin Sweet’s dustjacket.
It is quarter bound in green buckram cloth and a cream colorplan paper. The cover features a two colour image of Druss the Legend by Justin Sweet hot foil stamped in black and gold. The spine is also foil stamped in two colours. It also features a rounded spine, head/tailband and coloured ribbon.
The endpaper will be another landscape illustration by Justin Sweet. There will be another 6 colour images within the book, 5 interior images and 1 frontispiece, as well as a host of B&W line drawings within the text.
The book is protected by a green buckram slipcase with the author and title foil stamped in gold on both sides of the slipcase. The label is also Munken Rough Cream and hot foil stamped.
This edition is signed by Stella Gemmell and Mark Lawrence as well as the artist Justin Sweet.