The Embedding
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Overview:
- Title: The Embedding
- Author: Ian Watson
- Year: 1992
- Publisher: The Easton Press
- Pages: xiv+254+[3]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Embedding
- Notes:
- "COLLECTOR'S EDITION" (over) "Bound in Genuine Leather" stated on the title page.
- "The special contents of this edition are copyright © 1992 by The Easton Press..." stated on the copyright page. No stated date of publication.
- This is a limited edition of an unknown number of copies and was available by subscription only.
- One of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series, indicated by the logo printed on the endpapers.
- No ISBN, no printed price, and no dustjacket as issued.
- The uncredited illustrative cover design is repeated on the back.
- Pages are gilt-edged and there is a cream satin ribbon bookmark bound into the book.
- The frontispiece, credited on the title page and the copyright page, is on the page facing the title page.
- In addition to the frontispiece, there are three B&W illustrations by Pat Morrissey, printed on unnumbered pages.
- "Collector's Notes" (uncredited) are on a double-sided laid-in sheet.
- This edition is a facsimile reprint of the 1973 Gollancz first edition.
- Locus1 dates this as July 1992, but this can not be confirmed because of the difficulty in determining the publication date of Easton Press editions.