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Back to the Binding (never mind the text, feel the leather)!
I have just opened the super deluxe offering of the 'Legend', which comes at £100 less than 'The Children of Hurin' super deluxe.
Choice of leathers is superior to 'The Children of Hurin'. The clamshell case looks expensive and the book leather feels better than a top quality Gucci handbag.
This time they've use proper marbled endpapers (they were fake last time) and the text block has rounded corners to match the binding.
The whole thing has the feel of the best of old bindings.
Complaints? The gold stamping could have been cleaned better (residual goldleaf at the edges of lettering), and the clamshell case is a bit tight.
Too damn nice to read so I'm waiting the paperback release too!
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