Specialist Titles
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Anansi Company
The seventh collaboration of artist and poet with thirteen screen printed removable wire and card puppets. The content of the book is based on material from Walter Jekyll’s ‘Jamaican Song and Story’, 1907. This version...£2,400.00
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Peter Grimes
A narrative poem by George Crabbe with 22 etchings by Anthony Davies with an introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith. Designed and printed by Ronald King in 10pt Baskerville onto Saunders 285 gsm rag paper; loose sections...£1,200.00
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Tabernacle
A seven-drawer cabinet designed to celebrate seven generations of printing in the King family, with historical text gleamed from family archives and specially written poetry for each generation written by Roy Fisher. All contained in...£2,400.00
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The Elastic Membrane
A production in three parts by this ‘system artist’, contained in a wooden box with perspex cover. The first part, a ‘Practical’, is an example of a home-made computer used to generate the images which...£1,500.00
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The Left-handed Punch
The fifth collaboration of artist and poet in a modern version of the Punch & Judy drama. Entirely screen printed with the exception of the introduction, titles and colophon, which were printed letter-press in 14...£1,200.00
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The White Alphabet
A double-sided concertina alphabet book, without text and made on the same principle as Alphabeta Concertina, 1983, cut onto RWS hand-made paper and bound between inlaid wood boards. Signed copies with colophon letter-pressed in 14...£1,200.00
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The Song of Solomon (1st edition)
Over 30 screen printed images, including 8 double spreads – text printed letter-press in 30 pt Fry’s Baskerville, interwoven with the designs. Signed copies, 15 proofs – 72 pp unbound on J. Green mould-made paper...£900.00
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Blind Date
Ten etched and initialed illustrations surrounded by blind-embossed maze designs inserted into ten 4 pp sections 28×30 cm on Somerset Book mould-made paper with text printed letter-press in 24 pt Bodoni. Signed copies, 40 proofs,...£900.00
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The Burning of the Books - Limited Edition
This powerful sequence of 14 poems is the result of a unique collaboration between writer George Szirtes and artist Ronald King. Its genesis was King’s long fascination with Elias Canetti’s ‘Auto da Fe’, the famously...£2,700.00