Boddington & Royall
Life of Pi - Artist Edition
Life of Pi - Artist Edition
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Life of Pi - The Artist Edition of only two hundred and twenty seven (227) copies.
A hardback edition with a dust jacket individually numbered 1-227
A 25th Anniversary Edition signed by the Illustrator Andrea Serio.
Pre-order your copy now at at the special opening price of £95 (plus P&P).
Note: This price will increase to £110 on Monday 1st June. Books are anticipated to ship in August, 2026.
Should you wish to secure the book with a £50 Securing Voucher and pay the balance in July, please click here. (Please read the terms and conditions)
Life of Pi is an unforgettable adventure about survival, faith, and the power of storytelling, following sixteen-year-old Pi Patel as he becomes stranded at sea with a Bengal tiger (Richard Parker). Blending danger, wonder, and philosophy, the novel takes readers on a gripping journey that challenges the boundary between truth and imagination.
The Artist Edition will be bound in black wibalin with a gold embossed spine and front cover. The dustjacket has an image of Pi and Richard Parker of a becalmed sea to the front cover and tiger on the lifeboat on the back cover.
Book details:
The 288 pages are printed offset on 130gsm superior matt paper with colour drop caps starting each of the 100 chapters. A frontispiece shows a dangerous Richard Parker facing the viewer in the lifeboat. There are16 illustrations and two of them are double page spreads.
Page size: 240 x 170mm
Illustrations by Andrea Serio
This limited Edition release consists of four bindings of only 570 copies:
Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, and Pi Patel was 16 years old when adrift at sea with Richard Parker. The number 16 is also the number of illustrations: 13 full page and 3 vignettes.
There are 100 chapters to this adventure
227 Collectors and 227 Artist Editions.
Pi's journey adrift at sea lasted 227 days. Also, if you divide 22 by 7 you get a number that is 3.14... quite close to π
*Notes
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Images shown are of our prototype books. These prototype designs are to indicate what the final publications will look like and to uncover any issues in production. The final product may have some minor changes, such as a font change or adjustments necessary to create the high quality finished product.
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