Oak Tree Fine Press

À Outrance - Somerset letterpress deluxe edition

Fifty numbered copies half-bound by hand in calf with marbled boards. Each volume has been meticulously printed letterpress by hand on traditional cast iron Heidelberg Press one sheet and one colour at a time on mould made Somerset paper. In addition to signing the book, Philip Pullman has inscribed each copy with a line of text. Each volume is encased in its own slip case trimmed in leather and accompanied by a set of six woodcut images used within the book. Each print is signed by the author and artist and is produced in a format suitable for framing.

Price: £500

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Technical specification

Trim size - 250 x 340mm portrait
Extent - 48pp
Engravers - Andy English, Chris Daunt & Harry Brockway
Typeface(s) - Adobe Caslon
Origination, Repro - 16g zinc plates made by Alpha Engraving
Print process - Letterpress
Printer - Hand & Eye Letterpress
Bound, finished by - Smith Settle, Yorkshire
Text paper - Somerset Mould Made
Paper supplier - R K Burt & Sons
Leather - Calf
Marbled Boards - Anne Muir Marbling/ Iris Nevins
Slip case - Colorado Cloth/ Calf Leather