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(Circle Press) The Mirror Book. Ronald King. John Christie. Guildford. 1985. 30p. 12″ x 9.75″. Abook with no text. Made of mirror glass covers and mirror foil pages. In a black padded dropback box, with a pair of white gloves. Title in blind on front of box and spine. Colophon on transparent mylar laid in, initialed by Ron King. No. 17 in an edition of up to 30 copies. Laid in is a handwritten sheet with cleaning instructions signed by Ron King. Fine.

According to “Cooking the Books”, There were only 20 copies made in an edition of up to 35 copies. This book was originally designed for the Robert Kennedy exhibition ‘The Open and Closed Book’, held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1979. King writes in Cooking the Books: “When we first designed this, John had it made close to his home. Inside we printed a couple of lines which implied that what you read mirrored what you were. The book was placed on a lectern at the entrance to the exhibition. Later, when I decided to edition the work, I simplified the binding, removed the words, and designed the box to hold it safely.”

Related items: Catalogue 37 - Summer 2009, Circle Press, Ron King