My resolve broke a few weeks ago and I went on a small ordering spree, which has been slowly trickling in here and there. Today though I got 3 books at all once, and one of them a special edition I’m excited about.
Oops. I meant to crop that. Anyway, that Pride and Prejudice is the new Chronicle Books edition, which includes the 19 letters as actually letters, hand written and folded, each inserted into a glycine envelope bound in with the text block where the letter is relevant.
The folding freaked me out a bit as they’re definitely hand folded in a complicated tucked-into-itself fashion that had me a little stressed about unfolding them without damaging anything. Once you get the hand of it, it’s easy, and they’re so well done with postmarks and scratch outs.
Now, I want to read Pride and Prejudice again. After Halloween Bingo.
Oooh. That P&P edition does look very nice.
That looks like a wonderful edition with all those letters!
It was a total splurge, but I’m a sucker for books like this. 😀
If you wouldn’t mind, at some point, posting some more pix of that P&P edition? The idea of letters is very novel (ha!) but I’d be afraid they’d get lost or torn or otherwise come out of the book and then where would you be?
I will, yes – I’ll try to do it today, while I’ve got the book out. The letters could definitely get lost, but the glycine envelopes are full page sized, making for very generous storage, and open at the top, so short of holding the book upside down, they’d be secure from accidentally falling out. I’ll try to show that more clearly when I take the photos. 🙂