Limited edition, one of 100 copies.

ARMITAGE, Simon; Clive HICKS-JENKINS [Illus.] ~ Hansel and Gretel. A Nightmare in Eight Scenes. Signed by the author and illustrator.

LIMITED SPECIAL EDITION. Design for Today, London: 2019

Large 4to., deep purple publisher's cloth with inlaid blue and white decorative title label, bordered in blind, to upper cover; backstrip lettered in white; decorative endpapers; illustrated throughout in full colour by Clive Hicks-Jenkins; THE BOOK fine, protected in a removable mylar cover. Limited edition. One of just 100 copies, hand numbered and signed by both the author and illustrator, with two additional prints, hand numbered and signed by the illustrator, inside a translucent envelope. This copy also comes together with the publisher's promotional catalogue, and a handwritten card from Joe Pearson (founder of 'Design for Today') The classic cautionary tale by the Brother's Grimm, which tells the story of a brother and sister, abandoned in the forest and enticed into the arms of a witch by her sugar house. Originally performed with music by Matthew Kamer at the Cheltenham Music Festival in 2018, Armitage's adaptation sees the children as refugees, whose parents are forced to lead them away from the family home in order to give them their only chance of surviving war. The illustrations are here provided by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, who wrote that he asked himself the question “What happens to children who kill? What effect will it have on them?” “The children that I designed right at the start", he continued, "were really simple. There was a touch of St Trinian’s to them: short and pod-like with skinny arms and legs and dressed in school uniforms. Though caricatured there was a tenderness and bewilderment to them that was touching.""A contemporary spin on the tale we know", stated Faber and Faber of the adaptation "whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems." The book won the 'V&A Book Illustration Award' in 2020.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Fine