Star Wars: The Blueprints (Limited Edition Hardcover)

Product Description

Star Wars The Blueprints brings together, for the first time, the original blueprints created for the filming of the Star Wars Saga.

Drawn from deep within the Lucasfilm Archives and combined with exhaustive and insightful commentary from best-selling author J. W. Rinzler the collection maps in precise, vivid and intricate detail the very genesis of the most beloved story ever to appear onscreen.

Star Wars: The Blueprints gives voice to the groundbreaking and brilliant engineers, designers, and artists that have, in film after film, created the most imaginative and iconic locales in the history of cinema. Melding science and art, these drawings giving birth to fantastic new worlds, ships, and creatures.

Most importantly, Blueprints shows how in bringing this extraordinary epic to life, the world of special effects as we know it was born. For the first time, here you will see the initial concepts behind such iconic Star Wars scenes as the Rebel blockade runner hallways, the bridge of General Grievous’s flagship, the interior of the fastest “hunk of junk” in the Galaxy, and Jabba the Hutt’s palace. Never before seen craftsmanship and artistry is evident whether floating on the Death Star, escaping on a speeder bike, or exploring the Tatooine Homestead.

Star Wars: The Blueprints is a limited edition. Only 5,000 hand-numbered English language copies will be available.

Includes Star Wars: The Blueprints book, custom-made cloth case, and certificate of authenticity.

A custom-made cloth case holds the massive book of technical drawings within. Featuring 10 gatefolds that open to just shy of 4 feet in length, Star Wars: The Blueprints captures the original materials in breathtaking detail. Each book is hand-numbered and with an exclusive, limited run of only 5,000 English language copies, only the most passionate fans and collectors will have access to these prized documents and the incredible story they tell.

336 pages, including 10 gatefolds

More than 250 featured blueprints

Over 70,000 words

More than 500 photographs and illustrations

Hand-numbered title page

Printed on 200gsm matte paper with a varnish seal

15.5” wide by 18.5” tall (39.4 cm wide by 47 cm tall)

22 pounds (10 kg)

Custom-dyed cloth material case

Debossed foil stamping detail on spine and cover

Individually handcrafted, assembled and inspected

19” wide by 2.625” deep by 22.125” tall (48.3 cm wide by 6.7 cm deep by 56.2 cm tall)

Including book, 30 pounds (13.6 kg)

Only available to customers in the UK & Ireland; France, Germany and the rest of Europe; and Australia, New Zealand & the British Commonwealth.