Pages: unpaged Size: 285mm Technique: Drawn in wire Language: French Edition: #47/59
Type: Accordion fold
Place publication: London Publisher: Circle Press Cat. 27 Exhibition 1996
Additional notes: With a free variation in English by Kenneth White. Designed and printed by Ronald King. In paper folder.
Illustrated on page 150 of Cooking the Books: Ron King and the Circle Press, 2002.
Reference note: 1 sheet of heavy black handmade paper, embossed and printed, folded accordian style between black paper boards printed in red. In black paper wraparound. Baudelaire's version of the poem appears inside the fold, printed in blue ink;" This edition of Les Bijoux is limited to fifty signed and numbered copies. The design has been drawn in wire and printed at London Print Workshop on Khadi hand-made paper, the text set in Baskerville and printed letterpress " Designed and printed by Ronald King at Circle Press.
Exhibition notes: Item 27 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections. Johannesburg Art Gallery, 25 August to 27 October 1996