MARC Record view

001 $ 15/4709
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20240614141509.0
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Paolozzi, Eduardo
245 1 4 $a The metallization of a dream / $c Eduardo Paolozzi ; with a commentary by Lawrence Alloway
260 # # $a London $b Lions and Unicorn Press $c 1963
300 # # $a 63 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : $b illustrations (some colour) ; $c 27 cm.
500 # # $a The book was described by Paolozzi as “random jottings of ideas…which are developed as I work on my material.. the search for architypes to aid a dream in metal”. [`Notes by the Sculptor', p.5].
500 # # $a `The Metallization of a dream has been compiled, with the assistance of the sculptor, by John Munday, who also designed the book.

The text has been set in 11/13 pt Modern No. 1 (Monotype series 1_ by Percy Lund, Humphries & Col. Ltd at Bradford; the line and half-tone blocks have been made by Fine Art Engravers Ltd.

The book has been printed and bound by the Lion and Unicorn Press at the Royal College of Art, London. No. 29.’ [colophon].
500 # # $a Illustrated with numerous colour and monochrome illustrations of Paolozzi s work including 4 photo-lithographs reproduced from separation drawings.
562 # # $a Copy number 29 of a limited unspecified edition of possibly 400 copies.
563 # # $a Bound in black calf-backed brown paper covered boards the covers are imprinted in silver with mechanical images based on the engineering image for Paolozzi’s sculpture Mars (1962). Lettered in silver on the spine. The endpapers printed with a double-page image of Paolozzi in the shipyards of Hamburg.
700 1 # $a Alloway, Lawrence $e contributor
700 1 # $a Munday, John $e compiler $e book designer
710 2 # $a The Lion and Unicorn Press $e publisher $e binder
710 2 # $a Lund Humphries $e typesetter