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1992 1st Folio Society Edition Slipcase
THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY (3 VOLS) (1)
TITUS GROAN • GORMENGHAST • TITUS ALONE
Illustrated by Peter Harding
Introduction by Michael Moorcock
The first Folio Society edition of Mervyn Peake's celebrated Gormenghast Trilogy, published in London in 1992 and presented as three substantial illustrated volumes in the original red-and-black slipcase.
One of the most distinctive Folio treatments of twentieth-century fantastic literature. Peter Harding's extraordinary pen-and-ink illustrations extend across the pictorial cloth bindings and throughout the text, creating an architectural, densely worked visual interpretation particularly well suited to Peake's vast and decaying world of Gormenghast. The three volumes are bound in white cloth printed with wrap-around designs in black, with gilt spine titles and dark red endleaves.
Introduced by Michael Moorcock. Typeset in Ehrhardt and printed at the Bath Press on Monument Wove paper. The trilogy contains 192 drawings by Peter Harding, including a number of full-page and double-page compositions.
By Mervyn Peake
Format: Hardcover, Royal octavo (8vo 6 1⁄4 × 10 in 159 × 254 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: English
Published By: The Folio Society, London
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Very Good - Near Fine books in a Very Good original slipcase.
The three volumes present exceptionally well. Bound in white cloth with Peter Harding's continuous black pictorial designs and gilt titles to the spines. Bindings remain clean and striking, with strong contrast to the illustrated cloth and bright gilt lettering. Boards and corners are crisp, with no significant external wear visible from the supplied photographs. Dark red endleaves.
The contents are clean, fresh and very lightly handled. No significant staining, foxing or other internal defects are evident from the photographs supplied.
The original red-cloth and black-paper-covered three-volume slipcase is structurally sound and remains attractive, with bright gilt lettering. It shows visible shelf and handling wear, principally light-to-moderate surface scuffing and horizontal abrasions to the black panels, together with some rubbing to edges and corners and minor marks to the red cloth surfaces. The wear is cosmetic and does not detract materially from the strong presentation of the set.
An attractive and well-preserved example of the first 1992 Folio Society printing, with particularly pleasing volumes and the increasingly important original slipcase retained.
Collation:
Three volumes:
Titus Groan
422 pp.
66 drawings by Peter Harding
Gormenghast
450 pp.
73 drawings by Peter Harding
Titus Alone
247 pp.
53 drawings by Peter Harding
Total: 1,119 pp.; 192 drawings
Typeset in Ehrhardt. Printed at the Bath Press on Monument Wove paper.
Bound in white cloth printed with wrap-around black designs by Peter Harding; dark red endleaves; gilt titles to spines. Original red-and-black three-volume slipcase.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
Author Bio: Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911–1968) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, painter and illustrator, best known for the extraordinary sequence centred upon the imaginary world of Gormenghast.
Born in China to British missionary parents and later trained as an artist in London, Peake brought a painter's eye to his fiction. His writing is distinguished by intensely visual prose, grotesque characterisation, dark humour and an extraordinary sense of architecture and atmosphere.
The three principal Gormenghast novels — Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959) — have become landmarks of twentieth-century imaginative literature. Peake had envisaged the life of Titus as a longer sequence, but declining health prevented its completion.
Illustrated By: Peter Harding
Illustrator Bio: Peter Harding's extensive black-and-white illustrations form an integral part of this Folio Society edition. His dense pen-and-ink treatment of architecture, interiors, landscape and character echoes both the Gothic scale of Gormenghast Castle and the graphic intensity of Peake's own artistic imagination.
Harding's designs continue across the bindings of all three volumes, producing a particularly effective unified presentation when the books are viewed together in the slipcase.
Synopsis: Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels unfold in and around an immense, decaying castle governed by ancient customs, elaborate ceremonies and an almost impenetrable hierarchy.
Titus Groan opens with the birth of Titus, seventy-seventh Earl of Groan and heir to Gormenghast. Around him moves an unforgettable cast of eccentrics and grotesques, including the ambitious and ruthlessly intelligent Steerpike, whose rise from kitchen boy threatens the established order of the castle.
In Gormenghast, Titus grows increasingly conscious of the suffocating weight of inherited ritual while Steerpike's schemes develop into open conflict. The castle itself becomes almost a character in the novel: vast, labyrinthine, beautiful and oppressive.
Titus Alone follows Titus beyond the boundaries of Gormenghast into an unfamiliar and technologically strange world. Removed from the castle that defined him, he struggles with questions of identity, memory and freedom.
Neither conventional fantasy nor straightforward Gothic fiction, the trilogy occupies a unique position in twentieth-century literature. Peake combines elaborate prose, psychological observation, grotesque comedy and extraordinary visual imagination to create one of fiction's most memorable invented worlds.
SKU: BTETM0002268
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 30, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 4Kg
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1992 1st Folio Society Edition Slipcase
THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY (3 VOLS) (1)
TITUS GROAN • GORMENGHAST • TITUS ALONE
Illustrated by Peter Harding
Introduction by Michael Moorcock
The first Folio Society edition of Mervyn Peake's celebrated Gormenghast Trilogy, published in London in 1992 and presented as three substantial illustrated volumes in the original red-and-black slipcase.
One of the most distinctive Folio treatments of twentieth-century fantastic literature. Peter Harding's extraordinary pen-and-ink illustrations extend across the pictorial cloth bindings and throughout the text, creating an architectural, densely worked visual interpretation particularly well suited to Peake's vast and decaying world of Gormenghast. The three volumes are bound in white cloth printed with wrap-around designs in black, with gilt spine titles and dark red endleaves.
Introduced by Michael Moorcock. Typeset in Ehrhardt and printed at the Bath Press on Monument Wove paper. The trilogy contains 192 drawings by Peter Harding, including a number of full-page and double-page compositions.
By Mervyn Peake
Format: Hardcover, Royal octavo (8vo 6 1⁄4 × 10 in 159 × 254 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: English
Published By: The Folio Society, London
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Very Good - Near Fine books in a Very Good original slipcase.
The three volumes present exceptionally well. Bound in white cloth with Peter Harding's continuous black pictorial designs and gilt titles to the spines. Bindings remain clean and striking, with strong contrast to the illustrated cloth and bright gilt lettering. Boards and corners are crisp, with no significant external wear visible from the supplied photographs. Dark red endleaves.
The contents are clean, fresh and very lightly handled. No significant staining, foxing or other internal defects are evident from the photographs supplied.
The original red-cloth and black-paper-covered three-volume slipcase is structurally sound and remains attractive, with bright gilt lettering. It shows visible shelf and handling wear, principally light-to-moderate surface scuffing and horizontal abrasions to the black panels, together with some rubbing to edges and corners and minor marks to the red cloth surfaces. The wear is cosmetic and does not detract materially from the strong presentation of the set.
An attractive and well-preserved example of the first 1992 Folio Society printing, with particularly pleasing volumes and the increasingly important original slipcase retained.
Collation:
Three volumes:
Titus Groan
422 pp.
66 drawings by Peter Harding
Gormenghast
450 pp.
73 drawings by Peter Harding
Titus Alone
247 pp.
53 drawings by Peter Harding
Total: 1,119 pp.; 192 drawings
Typeset in Ehrhardt. Printed at the Bath Press on Monument Wove paper.
Bound in white cloth printed with wrap-around black designs by Peter Harding; dark red endleaves; gilt titles to spines. Original red-and-black three-volume slipcase.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
Author Bio: Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911–1968) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, painter and illustrator, best known for the extraordinary sequence centred upon the imaginary world of Gormenghast.
Born in China to British missionary parents and later trained as an artist in London, Peake brought a painter's eye to his fiction. His writing is distinguished by intensely visual prose, grotesque characterisation, dark humour and an extraordinary sense of architecture and atmosphere.
The three principal Gormenghast novels — Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959) — have become landmarks of twentieth-century imaginative literature. Peake had envisaged the life of Titus as a longer sequence, but declining health prevented its completion.
Illustrated By: Peter Harding
Illustrator Bio: Peter Harding's extensive black-and-white illustrations form an integral part of this Folio Society edition. His dense pen-and-ink treatment of architecture, interiors, landscape and character echoes both the Gothic scale of Gormenghast Castle and the graphic intensity of Peake's own artistic imagination.
Harding's designs continue across the bindings of all three volumes, producing a particularly effective unified presentation when the books are viewed together in the slipcase.
Synopsis: Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels unfold in and around an immense, decaying castle governed by ancient customs, elaborate ceremonies and an almost impenetrable hierarchy.
Titus Groan opens with the birth of Titus, seventy-seventh Earl of Groan and heir to Gormenghast. Around him moves an unforgettable cast of eccentrics and grotesques, including the ambitious and ruthlessly intelligent Steerpike, whose rise from kitchen boy threatens the established order of the castle.
In Gormenghast, Titus grows increasingly conscious of the suffocating weight of inherited ritual while Steerpike's schemes develop into open conflict. The castle itself becomes almost a character in the novel: vast, labyrinthine, beautiful and oppressive.
Titus Alone follows Titus beyond the boundaries of Gormenghast into an unfamiliar and technologically strange world. Removed from the castle that defined him, he struggles with questions of identity, memory and freedom.
Neither conventional fantasy nor straightforward Gothic fiction, the trilogy occupies a unique position in twentieth-century literature. Peake combines elaborate prose, psychological observation, grotesque comedy and extraordinary visual imagination to create one of fiction's most memorable invented worlds.
SKU: BTETM0002268
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 30, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 4Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
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