Benjamin Button: The Numbered Edition

F Scott Fitzgerald 's short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was first published in 1922. The eponymous hero is born in Baltimore in 1860 with the physical characteristics of a seventy-year old man. As time passes his appearance becomes younger and younger. It was the basis of the acclaimed 2018 film of the same name starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.

Now Dave McKean has made seventeen stunning three-colour relief prints for our seventy-two page edition. Three of them are over two pages and are bound into the book on tabs so that they open flat.

Printed letterpress in three colours by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington on a Heidelberg cylinder press at Hand & Eye Editions

Typeset in Baskerville

Printed on Munken 150 gsm

Trimmed page size 280 x 200 mm / 11 x 7.8 in

72 pages

Signed by the artist, Dave McKean

Limited to 200 copies of which 180 are for sale

The book is quarter bound, with a square spine in chocolate brown Canada Grain cow hide. The face papers are hand marbled by Freya Scott of Paperwilds and foil blocked in two colours to the front board. The top page edge is gilded. It comes in a cloth covered slipcase lined in light brown suedel. The front of the slipcase is foil blocked in three colours.