The Covers of Byzantium
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE is ready for stamping
The covers of the two volumes of THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE break somewhat from the style we’d established in the first four History books. We’re no longer putting the Castalia History logo on the spine; we decided that it tends to stylistically overpower a bookshelf when too many books feature the same strong design element. So, instead, we’ve placed three classic Byzantine tiles on the spines; an approach that we found worked very well with the DISCOURSES of Machiavelli and also reflects our new neo-Franklin style.
However, we certainly aren’t abandoning the logo, in fact, we’re returning to our original practice of stamping a blind embossed logo on the back cover, as we did with both the First and Second editions of THE MISSIONARIES. The exception is with the Castalia Libraria books, as the back cover logo stamp will not be blind embossed, but the same 22k gold stamp as on the spine and covers.
As mentioned in a previous post, given the importance and sheer number of the coins stamped over the centuries, we thought that instead of going with our customary practice of printing endpapers that display the locations where the events took place, we would take advantage of the many Byzantine coins available to produce a pseudo-geometric design that would be attractive as well as historically relevant.
The two-volume set is one of the most visually-impressive and content-rich books we have ever produced; the elite Spanish cowhide we’re using for the first time is, to be honest, more expensive than we should probably be using at this price point. There are about 50 sets still available at this point; the two books can be purchased together here:
We’re pleased to inform everyone that WAR IN PEACE has just reached the warehouse and will be shipping out next week. The Libraria editions are sold out but we have 57 of both Library editions still available.
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Might be fun to create variants of the Castalia logo in different tile forms: Celtics, Florentine, etc.