The Lettered edition.
Lettered and Numbered editions.
The Lettered and Numbered editions with the 1st trade edition.
Lettered and Numbered editions with the Palladini biography bonus book.
The custom packaging for the Lettered (left) and Numbered (right), with belly bands.
The custom boxes with the belly bands removed.
The Lettered (left) and Numbered (right) editions showing the custom wrapping paper.
Thank You card, stickers, embroidered napkin, and a ‘packed by’ card. The cards feature a different character from the book packing the portfolios.
The Lettered edition opened up on the first print, which is the signed, numbered photogravure.
The green translucent cover sheet to the Title Page. Lettered edition.
The green translucent cover sheet for the Signature page with a unique printing effect that created the embossed scales.
A closer look at the scale pattern.
Title Page letterpress printed with blind-strike scales pattern.
The Colophon page, letterpress printed.
The Lettered edition signature page with the text letterpress printed.
The Numbered edition.
The Numbered edition with the 1st Viking Trade edition o the book.
The Numbered edition, opened at the Title Page.
The Numbered edition with the illustrations cover page which is foil stamped with the dragon line art.
A closer look at the illustrations cover page for the Numbered edition with the foil stamped dragon art.
A sampling of the prints in the Numbered edition.
A sampling of the prints in the Numbered edition showing two of the color pieces.
The Numbered edition showing the color jacket cover art print.
The signature page for the Numbered edition.
The Numbered edition with the Introduction, Artist Note and Colophon text pages which are letterpress printed.
David Palladini’s Afterword with a custom illustrated capital by Rachel Readman, and a partial view of the hand-colored Title Page.