Edition details
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Eight colour illustrations by Marie-Alice Harel. Chapter opening pages have full-page border with hand-drawn chapter headers and titles hand-lettered by the artist. Illustrations are hand-tipped onto a page with decorative borders. Introduced By Marcus Sedgwick. Foreword by Michael Burrow. Text printed in 2-colours throughout with new page border designs by the artist. Printed by Gomer Press in Wales and hand-bound by Smith Settle in Yorkshire. White ribbon marker. Limitation label signed by Marie-Alice Harel and blocked with hand-lettering by the artist. Black endpapers printed in white with a design. Quarter-bound in black leather with art silk sides printed and blocked with a colour design by Marie-Alice Harel. Separate map case bound in art silk, containing a folded map. Book and map case presented in a centre-opening clamshell box with a die-cut and covered in black cloth silk screen-printed in white with a design by the artist. 372pp. 28.3x19.8cm. 500 copies. (£525).
About the book
Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle follows Sophie Hatter after the Witch of the Waste transforms her into an elderly woman. Seeking a cure, Sophie enters the magical moving castle belonging to the flamboyant wizard Howl and becomes involved with a fire demon, curses and a looming war. The novel combines humour, romance and imaginative fantasy while playfully overturning fairy-tale conventions.
