Edition details
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell. Introduced by Elif Shafak. Eight illustrations by La Boca printed on Tatami Ivory paper. Limitation tip printed letterpress signed by Elif Shafak and La Boca. Bound in metallic silk paper screen-printed in 3 colours with a design by the artist. Speckle printed page edges. Red ribbon page marker. Red endpapers printed in grey with an image. Presentation box bound in screen-printed grey metallic paper with red caps. Laid-in print, stickers and patch within a presentation folder. Printed in 2-colours on Munken Pure paper. 320pp. 26.5x21.4cm. 750 copies (£500)
About the book
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four follows Winston Smith, a minor Party official living under an authoritarian regime that monitors thought, language and personal behaviour. Winston begins secretly questioning the system and pursuing a forbidden relationship with Julia. The novel explores surveillance, censorship, propaganda and the terrifying possibility of political power controlling reality itself. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a totalitarian society in which the state controls language, history and even private thought. The story follows Winston Smith, a man who works for the government rewriting historical records so that the past always agrees with the Party's version of events.
