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The Alchemist standard gold

Paulo Coelho

Publication year

Limitation

Lyra's Press

2024

250

Author signature

Artist

Introduction

No

Gary Gianni

None

List Price

Median Market Value

Recorded Sales

£175

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The Alchemist standard gold
The Alchemist standard gold

6.a.i The "Standard gold edition": Quarter gold buckram cloth binding with hand marbled paper sides, slipcased, signed by artist: limitation 250

6.a.ii The "Standard ochre edition": Quarter ochre buckram cloth binding with hand marbled paper sides, slipcased, signed by artist: limitation 250

6.b The "Numbered" edition: Bradel bound with leather spine and two panel cloth front and back boards. Hand marbled endpapers: limitation 200

6.c The "Lettered" edition: Bradel bound. Leather spine and leather boards with cut-outs. Hand marbled endpapers, solander box, signed by author and artist: limitation 26


Printed letterpress on 170gsm Fedrigoni Arena Rough by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington of Hand and Eye Letterpress. Printed in black with yellow spots throughout on a Heidelberg cylinder press using photopolymer plates.


This edition is newly illustrated by world renowned artist, Gary Gianni. There are 10 full-page colour paintings, plus 14 full-page black ink line drawings. Many of these images are spread across two pages and there are also multiple half-page and spot black and whites around or embedded in the text. All colour images are printed offset litho by Hurtwood Press and sewn into the structure of the binding. All black and white images are letterpress printed to the page.


The Standard edition is bound as a cloth quarter binding with marbled sides. Marbled paper is handmade by Freya Scott of Paperwilds. The book is bound with a gold buckram spine. Each book has a gold outlined letterpress printed label sunk into the front board.


The book comes in a straight edged, ochre bookcloth covered slipcase. The front of the slipcase is foil blocked with a Gary Gianni pyramid design. The inside of the slipcase is lined with a sandy pink coloured suedel.



The other editions: Standard ochre - Numbered - Lettered

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