Due to the time (and thus, cost) of pulling prints, and a desire to keep what will already be an expensive book from being prohibitively so, we decided to set the number of prints to be included at five. But Briony had ideas for eight prints. Rather than making the difficult decisions of which three to cut, we struck upon a plan that will make future cataloguers’ lives a nightmare:

The first 20 copies will contain all eight of the aquatints Briony had sketched out for the project: a frontispiece, an introductory print, and six interior prints. These six prints will be identified by a letter (A – F) in the plate.

The edition’s remaining 30 copies will each contain the frontispiece and introductory print, and three of the interior prints. But which combination of three will vary from copy to copy (e.g. A, B & C, or B, D & F, etc.), and thus only two copies from the 30 will have the same combination. (Sorry, no, we won’t be able to entertain requests for a specific combination; they’ll all be excellent.)