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I can't say how many times I've watched your two videos for Peter Pan states from CTP! the quality standards they've put themselves to are superb, each detail tells a story, every part is an art in it's own thanks a lot

Great presentation 👏

These books are what I have wanted to have. And they used goat skin for making the second book. What an Astonishing book! I have a very cheap book of this story and my book doesn’t have any illustrations. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸I have pressed the button “subscribe” 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

the leather binding is superb

Your reviews are part of the beauty of these books, thanks a lot

One of my favorite short stories from Joe Hill. I would love to have this particular book in my collection

Amazing books! I might be purchasing the standard edition thanks to your review. There are so many wonderful small press now.

Beautiful books

Thank you for this video! Two astonishing editions, top-notch quality from CTP as always

I enjoy your reviews, especially hearing about some of the smaller publishers I didn't know about. One question I have, especially with editions printed on thicker paper, is how well does it lay open? I've had some books where I feel like I'm fighting the book to get it to open flat enough to read comfortably.

You have a gem there. I had to correct a former British co-worker on Capt. Bligh thanks to Hollywood's demonization of him. He was no tyrant. The irony was that he was TOO LENIENT to his crew, he pampered them too much and when you're in Tahiti in command of sailors worshipped as gods by sex-starved Tahitian beautifies for a year as they set about distilling alcohol, that's a dangerous game. The definitive account of what happened is Caroline Alexander's awesome THE BOUNTY, which opens with HMS Pandora arriving in Tahiti seeking justice and arresting 14 mutineers who had taken wives and had children with the natives. As to the main mutineers, for anyone thinking these criminals were angels, they loaded up on women and stills with some native men as slaves, found an uncharted island, burned the Bounty, then set about killing each other drunkenly in fights over the women until there was just one man left. The descendants of this man and those women inhabit this island (Pitcairn Island) to this day. Bligh had no marines (fighting sailors) like the Pandora did to watch his back. Nearly half the crew elected to join Bligh after the mutiny and they were placed with him in a 23-foot launch and set adrift to certain death. With just a quadrant and a compass (but no charts or marine chronometer) Bligh navigated the small boat 4000 miles to a Dutch outpost - a nautical feat unequaled to this day.

Thanks you've made me a fan of this press, they're as old school as it gets, a real printers' printing house. As an American, I was first introduced to Punch and Judy though via this talk by the late Jonathan Bowden: ua-cam.com/video/1tN_p4CB54A/v-deo.html If you find it entertaining move on to his talks on H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the Lovecraft one especially. He also did talks on Wyndham Lewis, George Orwell,, Stewart Home, and Bill Hopkins & the Angry Young Men - all top notch presentations, he was a great orator.

Great presentation as usual. Just a quick note about the link in the notes, it's got a typo with the parenthesis which breaks the link.

Edwin Smith is one of my favorite photographers. He is quite out of vogue now, seeking as he did to preserve views of Old English countryside, churches, interiors, landscapes, etc. I had never heard of him until I purchased a 24x19 print of his Gates of Hardwick Hall 30 years ago, and it has given me tremendous pleasure ever since. I'm an amateur photographer and love black and white. The way the delicate filigree of the cast iron fence meshes with the surrounding forest with the light shining through from the back has always provided me a sense of peace and an appreciation for the deep beauty of the scene. I've since collected some of his books and have gained an even deeper appreciation for his gifts. Strangely enough, he considered his photography far less important than his painting.

Folio Society's books are absolutely gorgeous!

Really enjoyed this - thank you. I have also discovered Murakami via these Folio Society editions, & I love them! They look brilliant beside the three Neil Gaimans by Folio. I am about to release a video on Murakami & magic realism, to sit beside by recent series on confessional & place poetics. I really enjoy following your adventures with fine editions of great books - cheers!

Nice one!

What a stunning book.

Delightful publication

it's a lovely presentation. Thanks for the video!

The binding reminds of the color out of space haha

Bro I have this bike

I cant find those mylar sheets for sale anywhere. Help?

Your English is very good, certainly much better than my Dutch, but the word is "cut" not "coot" and "front (frunt)" not "froont".

Great channel! I jumped on their collection of weird tales with the Hodgeson volume. I love the old English style bindings on these books.

Gorgeous books! Thanks for the review. With the standard state, can you feel the words on the page? I'm assuming so since this is printed letterpress, but you can tell more so on some papers I find.

Elite❤

Thank your for the kind words on my illustrations.

Very lavish production, but not sure the story itself appeals to me.

Столько хороших художников и никто не проиллюстрировал нормально книгу😢 и золото на обрезе тоже спорно🎉эти иллюстрации уродские и тупые

Yeah the book is nice, the leather and the binding surely make this book unique but the asking price is just crazy when you consider you can also have really nice unique books (with top quality paper, top notch binding, etc...) from other nice presses for a fraction of the price... It's just not worth it imho. Thank you for the review though :), it's always nice to see beautiful books!

ASMR for booksellers

Gorgeous! I love your presentation of it as well. Btw, did the company inform you about the type of leather and that the headbands were hand-sewn, or are you able to notice that by eye? I want to be able to identify stuff like that, but I don't know if it's possible haha.

I think you summarised Suntup’s approach very well: well thought out design, with distinct personality yet remaining somewhat understated. It’s a careful balance and they seem to manage to capture the feeling of each story in their bindings.

Stunning book!

There are several different subsets of fine & private press book collectors, which include: Incunabula, illuminated manuscripts, Books of Hours, antiquarian private press, modern (1890-present) private press, 1st editions, and fine bindings ( to name a few), and each one appeals to a very different type of book collector. Very often, there is little overlap between the various editions and/or collectors themselves. This Roman Numeral edition from Suntup Press encompasses both modern private press and fine binding. Clearly however, the appeal of this edition is for fine binding collectors and it is a modern masterwork from the Sangorski & Sutcliffe division of Shepherds Ltd. (London). Note that the top 3 states of this Suntup publication were extremely pricey: Numbered (350 copies): $950, Lettered (26 copies): $5,500, and the Roman Numeral edition (10 copies): $14,500. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this edition is that ALL of the four states completely sold out in a matter of several years. Personally, I would opt for a fine copy of the Cranach Press 'The Tragedie of Hamlet' in the rare full morocco binding by Otto Dörfner for the same price as this Roman Numeral edition but it is clearly an example of "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

I recently received a different book with that watermark and could not figure out the maker. Now I am randomly watching this and learn it’s Zerkall!

This lettered state of Conversation Tree Press' Peter Pan is absolutely of a piece with Lyra's Books' lettered Stardust and Folio Society's limited editions of Wind in the Willows and Alice in Wonderland, which are all to my mind the high water marks of fine press publishing of the last 30 years. All of these books wed understated early twentieth century extravagance with tasteful restraint: the finest materials; the finest illustrations; the finest bindings; all in service to a unified artistic vision. Charles Vess and Charles van Sandwyk are both to be congratulated for their roles in making these 4 books what they are, as are Rich Tong of Lyra's, Tony Geer of CTP, and whoever organised those two books at FS.

Do you plan to review their Dune Messiah? I have the original Easton Press edition but would start collecting these FS editions if they’re going to continue the series.

I'm not sure the book captured my interest, but it was an excellent review nonetheless.

Art was probably plagiarized like her other art.

Wow. This is incredibly beautiful, and your thoughtful review in on par to do it justice. Thank you.

I feel like I've killed him so many times now he just refuses to drop anything lol

While the limited edition is beautiful, I think I might actually prefer the exterior design of this standard edition. I'm not entirely sure why though. (actually, the more I look at it the more I start to come around to it. I think Id probably still choose the standard edition though, mainly because of the price)

This is a truly beautiful book. Gorgeous.

Adorable edition!!

I wonder, is there a reason (except for the aesthetic one) for such wide side and bottom fields? It seems a little more convenient to handle the book, to keep it and to turn pages without covering the content of the book with your hands, but seeing such big areas of empty paper in books is not of what I got used to. It is almost as if it is a small book in a bigger cover. Is it some kind of traditional format of books printing from old times?

a stunning piece of art.

Moral of the story: "You get what you pay for". Incidentally, an interesting factoid - at first blush, Peter Pan may have appeared to be an unusual choice to become the first publication of a new private press publisher. However, IIRC, when Tony Geer approached Charles Vess with regard to becoming the illustrator for his first publication (undecided at that time), Vess indicated that he had always wanted to illustrate Peter Pan, so much so that he convinced Tony Geer to make this his first publication. Vess has responded with an extraordinary collection of watercolours and B & W drawings, both in quality and quantity, so much so that it can certainly be considered a livre d'artiste edition. Rarely will one find a modern private press book as generously illustrated by an artist of Charles Vess's stature as in this edition, especially using letterpress printing for the B & W drawings.