This new edition of the most famous of vampire stories has been illustrated by James Pyman and has been designed by John Morgan, in collaboration with the artist. Although the figure of Dracula has long loomed large in the public consciousness, for this edition, Pyman returned to the original text, illustrating a line or phrase from each of the book's 27 chapters in a series of beautiful pencil drawings.
The novel, made up of a series of diaries, letters and newspaper cuttings, has been typeset by designer John Morgan with a different typeface for each character, the fonts based on those in use at the time of the book's original publication. The yellow clothbound cover echoes that of the first UK edition.
Notes on the fonts used:
LTC Remington Typewriter Pro Italic for Mina Harker’s journal
Bulmer justified for Jonathan Harker’s journal
Bulmer Italic ranged left for Dr Seward
Akzidenz Grotesk for Dr Van Helsing (Akzidenz Grotesk is the forefather of Helvetica and was released one year before Dracula was first published)
Goudy Sans Italic for Lucy Westenra’s letters
Orator Standard for telegrams (this typeface is matched exactly to a telegram of that period)
Century Expanded for newspaper extracts
Greenwood for Sister Agatha
Hardback
416 pages
24 x 14.8cm
ISBN: 978-0-9545025-7-7
£13.95, $27
Four Corners Familiar #2
Designer: John Morgan
Published November 2008 (UK)
Published February 2009 (USA)
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Also available in London at:
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Persephone Books, Kensington
Eastside Books, Brick Lane
Broadway Bookshop, Hackney
Daunt Books, Belsize Park
Serpentine Gallery Bookshop
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