ronald king - Edition Reese

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Anansi Company
Ronald King
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Roy Fisher (poet)
Artist edition
London, 1992
£2400 $4,800
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
is a modern rendering in verse by Roy Fisher of the familiar tales central to
Caribbean culture, concerning Anansi the
spider man and his company of friends.
Introduction and accompanying verse
printed letter-press in 14 & 18 pt Walbaum.
120 copies, 10 proofs – one 8 pp section,
thirteen 4 pp French-fold sections, and one
4 pp section (40 x 29 cm), all loosely
inserted into card wraparound and held in
large colour-blocked solander box.
This book has images that inspired me in,
metal, simple shapes and collage in my posters,
and the use of puppets. Ronald King had been
using wire in earlier books to emboss damp
heavy pages which seems to led him to include
wire puppets in this book. Both books are in
the special collection library.
Turn Over Darling
By Ronald King
1990. Unlimited numbered edition.
20 x 15cm. Designed and drawn in wire on Khadi pure rag-made paper. Six drawings when
folded and juxtaposed in sequence, make for eleven reclining nude images which change
position from front to back view. In slipcase.
Embossed and debossed images of a womanly figure reveal themselves as the reader dips
through each page. Wire forms were pressed into the dampened sheets of each spread to create a
delightful and lighthearted erotic sequence.
$120
$175 Signed and Numbered
Ronald King’s images during the 70s were more complex with college effects and
multiple layering of shapes and line.
Antony & Cleopatra
By William Shakespeare.
Guildford, England: 1979. Edition of 300.
40 x 32cm. Designed and produced by Ronald King with notes & introductory essay 'The
Elusive Absolute' by Keith Please. Text in 10 pt Baskerville. Paper is pure rag-made 250
gsm. Velin Cuve Rives Blanc. 11 eight-page unstitched sections contained in a specially
designed canvas cover portfolio. Production involved over 200 hand printings. In beige &
blue folding box designed by Paul Haskell.
A beautifully rendered edition of Shakespeare's play with King's own marginal notes and
lustrous contemporary illustrations.
$2400 (Last Copy)
From Ronald King’s web site at Circle Press, we find his earlier poetry
books that show his progress to his current works moving from silkscreen to
letterpress though he also worked with some amazing etchings and college effects
that influence him in his puppet books. We will see his images went from simple
to complex and return to become more simple shapes. We also see a return to pop
ups and alphabet books.
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Black Hole Off Crete
Ronald King
Keith Please (poet)
Guildford, 1977
£24
Poem and image printed silk screen and letter-press in Baskerville on the
theme of a space walker. 200 copies – 8 pp gate-fold on Glastonbury Book
paper – 19 x 30 cm stapled to sugar paper covers – 100 signed on Velin
Arches paper and sewn into mauve Strathmore card.
A Walk Along the Shore, 1977, silk screen image and letterpress
Claim Claim Claim
Ronald King
Anthony Conran (poet)
Guildford, 1969
£75
The third book of contemporary poetry published by Circle Press. Six
original screen prints and printed letter-press in 14 pt Modern by Des
Jeffery in Suffolk. 250 copies signed by the artist – 60 pp – 30 x 25 cm on
Glastonbury Book paper sewn into card cover with a green paper wrapper.
Welsh poet Anthony Conran supplies the poetry, Ron King the images.
Ron King, Cooking the Books: "My first
collaboration with a contemporary poet
whom I met through Ian [Tyson] (after an
exhibition at Bangor University where
Conran taught)."
We recede from each other. The child
distinguishes, the lover withdraws, the man of
decision is afraid.
It is twilight. Entropic dusk in the heavens.
$125
Canga Volume I
Ronald King
José Neistein (text)
Print portfolio
Guildford, 1976
Out of print
single prints available at £120
The first of three intended volumes with 10 hand-coloured etchings by
Ronald King on the theme of a band of Brazilian ‘cangaçeiros’ of the ‘20s
and ‘30s led by the notorious Lampião. Introduction by José Neistein
edition 1-25 plus 5 proofs loose in folder. 42 x 30 cms.
We can see a sample of Ronald King’s etchings was during his more
complex renderings period. Etchings can be very time consuming and
many copies to achieve perfection. I had to include these as a part of his
history.
Another example of his
etchings is Blind Date on his
Circle Press web site.
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Ronald King’s images from his early poetry and story books are very simple
layering of shapes and using various methods of printing including lithographic
and silk screen and letterpress text.
Song of Solomon, 1968 screen print images
The Prologue
Ronald King
Geoffrey Chaucer (poet)
Artist edition
Guildford, 1967
Out of print
From Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ - Originally produced for Editions
Alecto, London; published by Circle Press with frontispiece and fourteen
mask images titled and initialed in pencil - printed silk screen and letterpress in 24 pt Plantin. 125 signed copies, 15 proofs – 50 x 37cm – 15
unbound 4 pp sections in J. Green rag-made paper wraparound in blue
cloth folder and canvas slip-case. Separate editions of 50 plus 5 proofs
were made of all the images except ‘Friar’ & ‘Franklin’ onto J. Green paper
56 x 38 cm titled, numbered, and fully signed. (second edition, 1978).$500
More examples of using wire to emboss images onto paper.
Circus Turn
Ronald King
Bookwork
London, 1993
£42
Designed and printed in the same format as ‘Turn Over Darling’, 1990. A
series of 6 double-sided blind-embossed images printed in wire, which,
when folded and juxtaposed in sequence make eleven changing circus
scenes. 75 signed copies (out of print)– six 4 pp sections – 20 x 15 cm on
RWS hand-made paper and an unsigned, unlimited edition on Khadi Indian
hand-made paper, both bound into orange hand-made paper covers and
inserted into blue card slip-case.
Another embossed into shapes
A double-sided, blindembossed design drawn in
wire with text printed letterpress in blue on one side, for
the original French version,
and in red on the reverse
side, for the adaptation in
English, by Kenneth White.
50 signed copies – 70 x 56
cm printed onto a black
hand-made sheet of Khadi
Paper which folds in 12
sections to 28 x 15 cm
between hard boards and fits
into a pocket folder. (A
second unsigned edition of
75 copies was published in
1998)
Les Bijoux
Ronald King
C. Baudelaire & Kenneth
White (poet)
Fold out bookwork
London, 1996 & 1998
(2nd edition) £150