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The Prologue to The Canterbury tales

Guildford : Circle Press Publications, [cop. 1978]

This edition of "The Prologue" is divided into twenty separate versions I-XX each of 250 copies signed by the artist. Included in all of these versions is a newly produced original screen-print of lithograph by Ronald King inserted into a folder containing a specially written poem or literary comment, related to Chaucer's text ... In addition to these versions there are fifty books marked Artist Proof with a separate portfolio containing one each of the twenty new prints in their related folders. This is number [Artist Proof] 250. [Gesigneerd door Ronald King]. This book has been hand-set and printed letterpress in Monotype Plantin series 110 at Seven Corners Press, Guildford and at Charles Mitchell Ltd., Woking. The original stencils for the prints were prepared by the artists and printed at Loddon Displays, Guildford and Pegasus Print & Display, London. The paper in the book is 190 gsm Queen Anne Antique White and the binding and slip-cases supplied by Webb, Son & Co., Glamorgan Wales. The separate folders by G.F. Smith & Son are Buckler Light Grey Plain and were hand-set and printed letterpress at Circle Press by Willow King and Walter Taylor. The signed screen-prints were also printed at Circle Press by John Christie and Ronald King on Bockingford 190 gsm and the five lithographs were drawn by the artist from original sketches and printed at Bath Academy of Art by Barry Millard.

2e dr.

[..] p.

ill.

42 x 29 cm

object

cassetemap met losse illustraties

0-901380-32-6

Bijbehorend: 19 losse katernen in map.
1e dr.: Londen : Editions Alecto, 1966.

10-04 A

pp eng Circle 1978 gr. fr.