63 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm.
General Note
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].
`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].
Illustrated with numerous colour and monochrome illustrations of Paolozzi s work including 4 photo-lithographs reproduced from separation drawings.
Copy Note
Copy number 29 of a limited unspecified edition of possibly 400 copies.
Binding Note
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.