The large format of 300mm x 300mm is sized to reflect the panoramas and big skies of the moor itself, and contains around 3680 images across 1,800 pages in three volumes, weighs over 22lbs and will cost £3000, to include shipping securely anywhere in the world.
The project will never recover the cost of the time, work and effort put into it by authors Peter Russell and Neil Mercer, and is instead intended as their contribution to, and record of, the tin working history of Dartmoor and the two journeys that Tom Greeves speaks about in the trailer.
It is signed by both the authors and Tom Greeves, using exclusive handmade Dartmoor oak gall ink, and individually numbered, the volumes are presented in a elegant, lined box which has a tin 'Spirit of Dartmoor Tin' ingot inset in the face.
Volume 1 has a hand-cut polished disc of Dartmoor tin-bearing rock, created by master stonemason Dominic Hurley, inset in the cover. Volume 2 has a tin '2/4' - the alchemist's symbol for tin - inset into the cover, while Volume 3 comes with a modern copy of a medieval seal of the Devon Stannaries in tin metal (a proportion of which is Dartmoor tin smelted by Neil Mercer) inset into the cover. Handcrafted bookmarks, using dyes from plants gathered on the moor, grace each volume. Each is protectively wrapped.