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Editions and the companion book

Collector’s editions for the wall, and Most Dangerous Dinosaurs.

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Collector’s editions

Each image at one level only

The plates of the book are also offered as works for the wall, printed at 60 or 100 cm on wood or acrylic under a layer of glass, signed and numbered by the artist.

Unique works
One copy only, with a seal and a certificate
Editions of ten
Ten copies, each with a signed certificate
Editions of twenty-five
Twenty-five copies, each with a signed certificate
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Most Dangerous Dinosaurs

The companion volume: twenty-four animals and their weapons

Twenty-four of the atlas’s animals, chosen each for a real weapon, in a book of 68 pages with its own cover, contents, sources and index. Every spread adds a danger card naming the weapon: bite, claw, horn, spike or club.

Giant hunters

The great jaws, from Tyrannosaurus down.

Raptors and claws

Sickle claws and speed.

Armed plant-eaters

Horns, spikes, plates and clubs.

More about the companion

The companion volume

Most Dangerous Dinosaurs is a smaller book made from the same atlas. It takes twenty-four animals from Glowing Dinosaurs and gives each of them a spread built around one question: what made it dangerous? It runs to 68 pages, with its own cover, contents, sources and index, and it sits beside the large atlas the way a field guide sits beside an encyclopaedia.

The idea comes from the Glowing Series itself. Glowing Bugs has its companion in Most Dangerous Bugs, and the lesson of that book shaped this one: every entry must earn its place with a real weapon. An animal is not included because it looks fierce in films, but because the fossils show a tool for attack or defence that can be named and explained.

Three runs of eight

The twenty-four animals are arranged in three runs. Giant hunters gathers the great jaws, the meat-eaters whose skulls, teeth and bite made them the top predators of their worlds. Raptors and claws gathers the fast, the light and the hooked: animals whose weapons were on their hands and feet, and whose speed made them hard to escape. Armed plant-eaters gathers the animals that did not hunt at all, yet carried horns, spikes, plates and clubs heavy enough to turn back the hunters.

Every spread keeps the elements of the atlas: the glowing plates, the timeline, the field notes, the map and the size panel beside a person 1.8 metres tall. To these it adds a danger card that names the weapon in one word: bite, claw, horn, spike or club. Beside it stands the danger gauge, rating the animal harmless, risky or deadly, had we met, with a sentence explaining why.

Facts behind the fear

Danger is the subject most easily exaggerated, so the companion follows the same rule as the atlas: every fact is traced to its source. The finished entries already show the kind of evidence it uses. Tyrannosaurus’s bite has been estimated with computer models of its skull and muscles, and fossil dung most likely its own is up to half bone fragments. A robotic model of a raptor’s foot claw showed that it worked as a hook to grip and hold prey rather than a blade. Wounds on Triceratops skulls cluster on the frill, just where a rival’s horns would strike. Where the evidence is uncertain, the page says so, and the danger rating is always marked as the author’s judgement rather than a measurement.

Made for readers who want the thrill first

The companion is shorter, lighter and quicker to read. It is made for younger readers who come to dinosaurs for the teeth and claws, for shops that want a second title beside the atlas, and for exhibitions, where it can be sold beside the works and the animatronics. It shares the atlas’s design, its black and gold, and its sources, so the two books sit naturally together on a shelf and in a gift set.

Framed glowing plates hung on a dark gallery wall, with a glowing Triceratops in the room
Illustration: glowing plates framed and hung on a gallery wall.

Choosing a work

Every dinosaur in the atlas has three glowing plates, and each plate can become a work for the wall. Collectors often choose an animal they love, a hunter like Tyrannosaurus or a giant like Brachiosaurus, or a set from one chapter of the book to hang together. Because each image is offered at only one level, unique, ten or twenty-five, every work stays rare. Write to us with the dinosaurs you have in mind and we will tell you which works are available.

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