So when buying and if the signatures are important to you be careful in what you buy.

I have put a link here to amazon.co.uk who are carrying the release. The description there is wrong as it is not limited to 2,000 and I think the edition there is the one without the signatures. Best bet when buying is towards the top right of the description there is a 'More Buying Choices'. Click it and you will come to what is known as 'Marketplace Sellers'. These are individual traders who sell via amazon. Now each should have a description of the product they are selling and within there will be whether it contains the signed print or not. Commonly, the edition with the signed print is termed 'Ist Edition' and without the signatures '2nd Edition'. If there is no description then take it that it is the '2nd Edition'.

Regardless of which edition it's a beautiful set and I might be mistaken but both now no longer being made.

Contents

This two-disc box set comes in two separate (18.7cm x 24.1cm) hard back, cloth-bound volumes which are themselves inserted into a cloth-bound rigid slip case. Each of the three cloth-bound items feature gold embossed lettering. There is an accompanying (18.5cm x 23.5cm) black on white high quality print of a portrait of David Sylvian by Atsushi Fukui.

Volume One: a 40 page full colour printed, perfect bound book to accompany Manafon, featuring the complete lyrics from Manafon, accompanied by artwork from the artists Atsushi Fukui and Ruud Van Empel. The CD is the standard version of Manafon. Track listing here.

Volume Two: a 24 page full colour printed, perfect bound book to accompany the documentary Amplified Gesture. With a foreword by Clive Bell, this book contains photos and biographies of all of the contributors to the documentary. The DVD is an NTSC Region 0 disc that contains: Amplified Gesture - a documentary (duration 55 mins approx), plus Manafon audio in 5.1 dts surround sound mixed by David Sylvian PCM Stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit).

Amplified Gesture is directed by Phil Hopkins and produced by Sylvian. The documentary features the musicians who took part in the recording of the album and they discuss their lifelong obsessions with experimentation and improvisation. Released only as part of this edition.