COX, Brian & Jeff FORSHAW The Quantum Universe London: Allen Lane, 2011 £295 8vo., silver sparkly cloth, embossed with ‘Everything that can happen does happen’ to upper cover; lettered in silver to spine with publisher’s device to foot; rainbow-coloured endpapers; fluorescent yellow ribbon marker; pp. [ix], 2-255, [ix]; with numerous diagrams, equations, and reproduced images throughout; slight yellowing to the spine, else fine; housed in the original black sparkly slipcase with author’s names and title in silver to upper board. First, limited edition, one of 1000 copies. This copy no. 478, signed by Peter Saville, the Art Director. A beautifully produced, limited edition copy of Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw’s attempts to bring the concept theories of Quantum Physics to the lay person. Within it, the reader is introduced to such concepts as Heisenberg's Uncertainty correlation and the Chandrasekhar limit (the maximum mass a white dwarf star can have) in simplified terms, without the use of complex mathematics. In doing so, they provide an insightful, and fascinating look at the very building blocks of matter, and end with an epilogue on the life and death of stars. David Kaiser, writing in The Guardian at the time, called the book “A popular account of the oddity and beauty of quantum theory…readers will enjoy this engaging, ambitious and creative tour of our universe”.