The chemistry of tears / Peter Carey
- Bib ID:
- 5977876
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Carey, Peter, author
- Edition:
- [Limited edition]
- Description:
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- London : Faber & Faber, 2012
- 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780571279975
- Summary:
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When Catherine's lover dies suddenly, she has no-one to turn to - their affair had been disguised from their colleagues and his family - except her work. A middle-aged curator in a London museum, Catherine is given a very particular project by the perceptive head of her department: a box of intricate clockwork parts that appear to be the remains of a nineteenth century automaton - a beautifully made mechanical bird. When she discovers that the box also contains the diary of the man who commissioned the machine, she is partially rescued from one obsession by another - who were Henry Brandling and the mysterious, visionary clockmaker he hired to make a gift for his absent son? And what was the end result that now sits in pieces in her studio?
- Notes:
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- Co-published by London Review Bookshop Limited Editions in a special signed limited first edition of 45 copies quarter-bound in gray Harmatan natural grain fine leather with blue cloth sides (numbered 1-45) and 30 copies (numbered i to xxx) full-bound in the same leather, with all copies housed in blue cloth slipcases with a darker blue velvet interior. All books have blue stained top edges, blue and white head and tail bands, Fedrigoni Merida Indigo endpapers. The bindings have been designed by Andrew Stilwell and Patrick Roe and produced by The Fine Book Bindery, Northamptonshire.
- National Library's SR copy is no. 25/45.
- SR copy is no. 22 of the limited ed. of 30 roman numeral copies and is signed by the author.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2012
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