A carefully restored edition of the 1895 first printing of The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.
This volume presents Chambers’s complete original sequence of ten stories and poems, set in Adobe Caslon Pro, 11 pt, with generous margins informed by late-Victorian typographic practice. Paragraph initials are reproduced from the original U.S. edition, while the page design has been refined for clarity and balance. Ten black-and-white illustrations by Earl Geier accompany the text, together with additional commissioned artwork by Seung Gue Lee, Javier Prado, JP Aguirre, and Arturo Velasco.
Printed by traditional lithography on archival, acid-free, uncoated cream paper, the volume has a natural, tactile surface suited to sustained reading. The text block is Smyth-sewn and opens flat.
The binding is executed as a quarter-cloth hardcover over substantial boards, with foil-stamped titling and illustrated paper sides. Cover art is by Seung Gue Lee. The book is finished with bespoke endpapers, yellow and black headbands, and a ribbon marker, and is housed in a protective slipcase featuring a marble design by Jessica Goulty.
The Codex Edition is built for durability and quiet permanence, offering a restrained and materially faithful presentation of Chambers’s work.
