It took a few tries for the stamping die maker and binder to get on the same page for Lettered Edition of The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. At the top of this photo is the traycase (left, in red) and the leather-bound book (right, in black). Across the bottom are three different stamping samples on the leather binding, with the first version on the left and the final version on the right.
The final stamping looked like this:
March 15, 2013 at 9:24 pm
Brian if you ever want to get rid of things like that just toss them in the box with my book.
March 15, 2013 at 10:10 pm
I will definitely keep you in mind! 🙂