Using a french-fold technique this book artwork, typographical experiment, and feat of paper engineering. This updated edition of Alphabeta Concertina, Ron King’s classic capital letter 1983 version, reprised here to correct its long ‘out of print’ status and updated with newly modified designs for some of the letters.--from the Circle Press website
Alphabeta concertina minuscule is Ron King's classic lower caps letter version. It is artwork, typographical experiment and feat of paper engineering. Its gently unfolding letters is in a sense a ‘reply’ in lower case form to the original ‘cap’ version published in 1983.--Circle press website
Embossed and debossed images of the female figure reveal themselves as the reader turns each page. Six drawings when folded and juxtaposed in sequence, make for eleven reclining female nude images which change position from front to back view. Images created from wire forms pressed into dampened sheets of paper to create each spread. / Embossings on heavy hand-made white paper, sheets are hand-sewn together with thin thread and issued in a light brown paper portfolio. / "On J. Green RWS hand-made paper in a signed limited edition of seventy five copies and on Khadi pure rag-made paper in an unlimited edition"--Cover page [2]. / Issued in grey paper slipcase.