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(London: Folio Society 2022). 3 volumes. First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spreads, numerous full-page illustrations in the text and coloured headlines; open-thread bindings of pictorial cloth, black edges, black endpapers, a very fine set in publisher's printed cloth in like hand-made clamshell case blocked in metallic red foil; with a separate print in a black Buano paper folder printed in silver. Comes together with the printed binding description slip. As new. A beautiful production. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR (DAVE McKEAN) AND THE INTRODUCER (NEIL GAIMAN). AN UN-READ COPY. ONLY OPENED ONCE TO CHECK THE LIMITATION. Photographs available upon request.

The second novel in the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake, continuing the turbulent story of the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast.