Fablelistik Editions

Numbered Edition of Fourth Wing

Name: Numbered Edition of Fourth Wing
Brand: Fablelistik Editions
Price: 705.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Rebecca Yarros

Numbered Editions are collector’s pieces in every sense. We work closely with production specialists, letterpress printers, and independent book artisans to bring these editions to life, often using traditional techniques that have been preserved over centuries. While more widely available than Lettered Editions, these books are still handbound and produced with artisanal methods in collaboration with established artisans and materials not typically used in commercial publishing. These editions are designed to last lifetimes, both as reading experiences and as objects of beauty.

The Fourth Wing Numbered Edition (1-500) represents the combined powers of Violet’s lightning wielding and Xaden’s command of shadows, shown through the marbled cloth case, accented with silver foil stamped lightning. This edition will feature all of the combined art from the two Collector’s Editions, as well as additional, exclusive art. The endpapers feature a custom dragon scale design foil stamped onto a premium black paper.

Due to popular demand, we are thrilled to offer all 500 copies with an ‘Empyrean Matching Right,’ allowing these customers first right to purchase their matching number for the next title in the series, Iron Flame.

$705.00

PLEASE NOTE: International prices listed for each product are inclusive of all taxes, duties, and fees. Published editions may have slight variations from the photos and prototypes shown here.

Production Specs

ALL NUMBERED EDITION PURCHASES WILL RECEIVE THE EMPYREAN SERIES MATCHING RIGHT (PREV. 1-150)

Print Run: 500 copies
Estimated Ship: Winter 2026
Available for Pre-Order: International
Order Limit: 1 copy per household
Page Count: 656 pages
Trim Size: 6.5 x 9.5
Signed by Rebecca Yarros, Shepherd’s Bindery, Helena Schmalz, Alexis Lampley, and Virginia Allyn
Bookbinder: Shepherd’s Bindery
Printer: Printing offset
Paper: 80# Finch Opaque Smooth Uncoated stock

Bookbinding Details:

Smyth sewn with rounded back
Custom hand-marbled Edinburgh cloth by Jemma Lewis, blocked with silver foil lightning strike across cover and gold foil dragon art
Rounded spine
Black leather head and tail bands

Enclosure Details:

Enclosure Binder: Shepherd’s Bindery
Black cloth with blind deboss dragon scales art

Interior Details include:

Typography: The book is set in Freight Text Pro. All supplemental fonts throughout the book are hand-lettered by Alexis Lampley
Fablelistik-exclusive designed line art by Alexis Lampley throughout the book - epigraph pages with chapter-specific Easter eggs hidden throughout, and dragon-wrapped dropcaps to open each chapter.
At least seven 4-color illustrations throughout by Helena Schmalz
Endpapers are blocked in grey foil with the dragon scale design of the Lettered Edition cover
Also includes reimagined maps of The Continent and Basgiath, both 4-color

Book Summary

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter―like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda―because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

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Collaborators

Artist

Helena Schmalz

Helena Schmalz is a freelance illustrator based in Hannover, Germany, specializing in character illustrations for young adult books. She’s currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in animation and loves bringing fantastical characters to life. When she’s not drawing, she’s watching true crime documentaries, practicing pole dance, or hanging out with her three cats.

Artist

Alexis Lampley

Alexis Lampley has worked for more than a decade as a hand-letterer and illustrator, focusing on books inside and out. She specializes in adapting her style to each specific title she works on, in order to better express the theme and mood of a particular story. As an author herself, Alexis understands the importance of art as a way to bring the words of a story to life. Alexis’s novel, Pride and Prejudice in Space, features dozens of her illustrations, which showcase her wide range of styles and ability. Along with her own book, she has designed and illustrated dozens of book covers.

Bookbinder

Shepherds Bookbinders

Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe is one of the oldest bookbinding companies in England and specializes in fine binding, restoration, and the conservation of books and manuscripts. Their bindery employs craftspeople with a broad range of traditional and modern skills. Paper conservation, handsewn pages, gilt edges, fine leather covers, and gold finishing—these are just some of the many facets of a hand-bindery.