NEW PUBLICATION FROM THE QUEEN ANNE PRESS
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MERVYN PEAKE

First publication of the complete works of one of the 20th Century’s great creative spirits

To celebrate the centenary of Mervyn Peake’s birth Queen Anne Press is publishing a 10-volume edition of his collected works in prose and poetry. Courtesy of the Peake Estate it contains a host of previously unseen illustrations and marginalia taken from the original manuscripts. No such edition has been published before.

The edition is limited to 151 sets across two high quality formats. Both versions are bound by Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Typesetting and picture arrangement by Libanus Press. Cover design by Webb & Webb. Each volume is printed in at least two colours

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Fine Binding (limited to 26 sets lettered A-Z)
ISBN: 978-0-9558189-4-3
Finely-bound in goatskin with leather onlay designs featuring crystals, exotic shell and iridescent beetle wings, hand sewn head- and tailbands, top-edge gilt pages and handmade endpapers. Individual, leather trimmed, rounded entry, lined slipcases.

Price: £7,650 (pre-publication offer £7,100)

 

Cloth Binding (limited to 125 sets numbered 1-125)
ISBN: 978-0-9558189-5-0
Bound in Japanese cloth with gold blocking, the front board of each volume inset with an illustration from the text. The volumes numbered 1-10 in Chinese numerals on a disc on the back board.

Price: £1,450 (pre-publication offer £1,350)

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