Royal Road Test
This artist's book documents the "road testing" of a Royal typewriter, thrown from the window of a moving car. The book records the test site, point of impact, results of the "test" and the collaborators.
Royal Road Test
- Artist
- Ed Ruscha (b.1937) (collaboration with Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell)
- Title
- Royal Road Test
- Medium
- Black offset printing on 80-ib. white Prentice Gloss Text paper
- Date
- 1967
- Edition
- From the first edition of 1,000 copies
- Exterior
- Softcover; manila-coloured paper; title printed in black ink on front
- Binding
- Spiral binding by California Bindery-Griswold Corp., Downey, California
- Size
- 24.0 x 16.5 x 0.5 cm : 9 7/16 x 6 1/2 x 3/16 in. (closed dimensions)
- Pages
- 60 (30 pages with 36 captioned photographic illustrations, 16 pages with text only, 12 blank pages, 1 title page, 1 copyright page)
- Printer
- Blair Litho, Los Angeles
- Publisher
- Artist
- Notes
- In fair condition, some soft creases to the lower right corner of the upper softcover; some minor handling creases and marks to softcover; some pale staining to lower edge of upper softcover
- Literature
- Engberg / Philpott B6
- Reference
- C14-09
- Status
- Currently Unavailable
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