Eight Rules For Writing

by Neil Gaiman - RARE BROADSIDE, SIGNED, NUMBERED

$2,736 · Offered by Biblio · No longer available

Signed

Number 19 of 251 copies, long sold out and enormously sought after. SIGNED by Gaiman and the artist. Known for his infinite attention-to-detail in his stories as well as any other undertaking, Neil Gaiman never disappoints. Here he offers up a limited edition broadside titled Eight Rules for Writing, printed in a strict edition of 251 copies (this being #34) on a Vandercook SP15 proof press. The paper is 10 x 22 Stonehenge Rising white 250gm with a deckle edge on the top and bottom edges. The inks used were Van Son and Hostmann Steinberg oil based and rubber based inks and overprint varnish. The typefaces were carved by hand out of birch faced plywood and battleship linoleum. The artwork was created by engraving on the endgrain of maple wood and carving battleship linoleum that was mounted onto 3/4 plywood. Five impressions (individual times the paper was hand fed through the press) were made for each color, accounting for over 1,500 impressions including proof and set-up sheets used in the registration process. Two tones of black were used in the printing of the ravens. The top ravens are in red black and the bottom ravens in charcoal black. The text color was hand mixed using a variety of inks including a silver-based letterpress ink. There are eight ravens pictured in the broadside. Six of them are in black and two are embossed into the paper making them almost invisible. This is intentional. Two of the qualities of good writing are almost always invisible. As Gaiman notes

• Edition: Limited Edition.
• Binding: paperback

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