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Title(s):
Riders & horses : poems written on the theme of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The prologue to The Canterbury tales" / Andrew Crozier, Roy Fisher, Keith Please, Kevin Power.
Additional Title(s):
Riders and horses
Published/Created:
Guildford [England] : Circle Press Publications, 1982.
Physical Description:
21 p. ; 25 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR1195.C19 R53 1982+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
A total of 20 poems (5 by each poet) printed letterpress onto mould-made paper with a small lino frontispiece by Ronald King.
"Limited to 150 copies; ten for each poet, five for the infamous mausoleum vaults and five for Circle Press, which leaves one hundrd [sic] available for sale"--Colophon.
The poems were originally published in four separate folders in limited editions of 250 copies in 1978. Fifty sets of folders were issued in portfolios for private distribution under title: Prints and texts.
Cooking the books Ron King and Circle Press. New Haven : YCBA, 2002, p. 173
Subject Terms:
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- In art.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- England -- Canterbury -- Poetry.
Circle Press -- Publisher.
English poetry -- 20th century.
Form/Genre:
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
Linocuts -- 1982.
Contributors:
Crozier, Andrew.
Fisher, Roy, 1930–2017.
Please, Keith.
Power, Kevin.
King, Ronald, 1932– ill.
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