IDW Artist Edition - Brian Bolland

[matty_ae]

Hi guys

Obviously IDW have done the complete Judge Dredd Brian Bolland.
I was listening to a 2000ad podcast with Simon Fraser where this was referred to as 'Bolland artist edition of Judge Death' as in one of those huge scanned from the original art
So question

1) Was this ever planned as an Artists Edition?
2) Was the difficulty in track down the OA the problem?
(I don't want to stoke the stolen BB art issue so please don't dwell on that)