Roller
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Roller
Classmark: Artists' Books 303
Creator(s): Fisher, Roy (1930-2017)
Additional creator(s): Tyson, Ian (1933-2021) (Typographer); Bleitz, Karen (Book artist); Sykes, Richard (1946-2019) (Former owner); Mason, Penny (Former owner); Circle Press (Publisher)
Publisher: Circle Press
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1999
Language: English
Size and medium: 18 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/792730
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991021187968005181
Description
"Text written by Roy Fisher in 1979, typographic realization by Ian Tyson and binding and computer generation in Centaur by Karen Bleitz 1999. Printed both in a signed limited edition of 35 copies and a numbered unlimited edition on Zerkall paper using an Epson Stylus at Circle Press. This is number..."--Colophon.
"The first computer-generated book made at Circle Press, designed for a text written in 1979, printed in Centaur on an Epson Stylus in three colours by Karen Bleitz. 35 signed copies in a concertina format – 22 pp – 14 x 17 cm on Zerkall paper with black card ends and a fluted composition-board slip-case... Also an unsigned, unlimited edition without slip-case."-- Publisher's description.
Signed and dated by the author and artist: "Ian Tyson 99" "Roy Fisher 99"; copy no. 9/35.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 303: in fluted composition-board slip-case 14 x 4 x 18 cm.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 303: Gift from the collection of Richard Sykes and Penny Mason through the Contemporary Art Society, 2023. Purchased by Richard Sykes and Penny Mason in 1995 from The Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts, London
Access and usage
Access
Access to this material is unrestricted.