The Art of the Gun: Magnificent Colts
From photography to press, a magnum opus of a project.
The opportunity to work on Magnificent Colts with the Robert M. Lee, Anne Brockinton Lee, RL Wilson and the amazing staff at Yellowstone Press has proven to be a uniquely challenging, yet rewarding and educational experience. I have been working with a team of designers over the past decade on a series of mini and coffee table books highlighting one mans astounding collections.
My role in the production of The Art of the Gun encompassed a large array of areas, everything from IT management of multiple sites throughout the country, rebuilding the IT infrastructure from the ground up and moving the businesses assets several times throughout the years; to art direction of photography, color correction, indexing, digital asset management, layout and design on the books to developing Filemaker Pro databases allowing us to effective manage as a group the collections and vast amount of related data.
A Work of Art
Magnificent Colts is the most lavish firearms books ever published on the history of firearms make the perfect inspiration and creative tool for any engraver.
The limited edition Art of the Gun: Magnificent Colts, Classic and Deluxe Edition are designed in a horizontal eleven by fourteen inch format, consisting of six-hundred pages in a two-volume set. These beautiful sets are case-bound with heavy book board covered with fine Brillianta cloth, gold foil stamped, Smyth sewn with elegant head and tail bands, and wrapped with French-folded double-sided dust jackets. The one-hundred pound Utopia Premium Gloss Text paper is printed in the U.S.A. with the highest quality printing processes available, using Toyo vegetable-based inks on a Heidelberg six-color press. Th Classic edition is limited to 5,000 sets, while the Deluxe signed & numbered edition is limited to 500 sets.
A landmark in the literature of firearms history and collecting, this extraordinary new book series will showcase some of the rarest and most beautiful sporting guns ever made. — Sporting Classics Magazine
Amazing National Reviews
Featured on the Discovery Channel’s “American Guns” with in-depth reviews in
American Rifleman, Sporting Classics & FEGA’s The Engraver
Includes DVD & Blu-Ray with Background Video
Fresh information & illustrations on Colt, the engravers, models and finishes,
accessories, advertising, period photographs and video.
The opportunity to coauthor Magnificent Colts™ with Bob Lee has proven a unique experience. No expense has been spared to create a unique work of art in this historic two-volume mega-book – filled with new information and amazing photographs. Further, Magnificent Colts™ is the only title specifically published in celebration of Colt’s 175th anniversary: 1836-2011. — R.L. Wilson
