Books

Limited to 750 copies. Signed by author Gene Wolfe, introducer Neil Gaiman, and by the illustrator Sam Weber. Four volumes, each three-quarter bound in black buckram blocked in red foil; Cloth front boards printed with designs by the illustrator; Black page edges; Set in Jenson with Priori Serif display and printed on Abbey Pure Rough paper; Decorative initial letters designed by the illustrator; Printed in two colours throughout; 1,196 pages of text in total; Colour frontispiece and double-page illustration in each volume; Three black and white full-page plates in each volume; Illustrations printed on Natural Evolution Ivory paper; Handmade cloth-bound slipcase blocked on two sides in pale gold foil with designs by the illustrator and lined with silver-mirrored paper; Each volume 10? � 6�? 4 volume set: 1. The Shadow of the Torturer. 2. The Claw of the Conciliator. 3. The Sword of the Lictor. 4. The Citadel of the Autarch.

The Book of the New Sun is a series of four science fantasy novels or one four-volume novel written by American author Gene Wolfe. It inaugurated the so-called 'Solar Cycle' that Wolfe continued by setting other works in the same universe. Narrated by Severian, a disgraced journeyman torturer who rises to the position of Autarch, the story involves themes of time travel, theology, and the nature of reality.