Visual Editions bring out the books brilliance and playfulness again, dusting it down from its shoddy Dover Classics image and make it accessible and relevant again to a more contemporary audience. Visual Editions asked the designers to breathe new life into the book and told the designers to add new visual elements in as well. And so they did: a shut door is a folded page, perspiration is pages of dotted spot varnish and the marbled page is a moire of a black and white photograph (a nod to contemporary printing technologies, in the way that the marbled page was a result of technologies of the time).
