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The Left-handed Punch

Item date(s): 1986

Roy Fisher


Pages: 11 signatures in covers
Size: 380mm
Edition: #34/80


Place publication: Guildford, Surrey
Publisher: Circle Press
Cat. 30
Exhibition 1996

Additional notes:
This first edition of The Left-handed Punch is limited to eighty books signed and numbered by both artists and poet. 11 signatures in covers. In slip case. Bound by Angela James. Illustrated on p69 of 'The Handmade Book' by Angela James, 2000.

Illustrated on page 53 of The New Bookbinder, Vol. 17, 1997.

Illustrated on page 54 of Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967-1988 by Donna Stein, 1989.

Illustrated on page 23 of Speaking of Book Art by Cathy Courtney, 1999.

Illustrated on pages 106-111 of Cooking the Books: Ron King and the Circle Press, 2002.

Exhibition notes:
Item 30 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections.

Johannesburg Art Gallery

25 August to 27 October 1996

Ref: GB/2123



















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