Yale Center for British Art

Title:
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.
Alternate 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

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:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales. | Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters. | Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- In art. | English poetry -- 20th century. | Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- England -- Canterbury -- Poetry. | Circle Press -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Linocuts -- 1982.
Contributors:
Crozier, Andrew. | Fisher, Roy, 1930–2017. | Please, Keith. | Power, Kevin. | King, Ronald, 1932– ill.