The Romaunt of the Rose (B8)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Title
The Romaunt of the Rose
Made in
London
Date
1974
Description
Book in a blue box, with a cream vellum cover with title in gold on the spine, blue handmade endpapers, white rouch edged paper and seven coloured etchings.
Materials and techniques
Text printed on TS Saunders white mould paper in hand-set Monotype Garamond Italic, with seven original etchings by Ann Brunskill. Text printed on a Lion hand press; etchings printed on a Hunter Penrose copper plate press.
Dimensions
length (box): 42.3cm
width (box): 31cm
depth (box): 4.3cm
length (object): 41cm
width (object): 30.5cm
depth (object): 3.3cm
Object number
B8
Category
References
Coleman, Marigold - Crafts, No. 16 (1975)
Maker's statement
This book was a continuation of an exploration of a specific theme i.e. The secret garden, or enclosed inner space, which from time immemorial has been taken to have a double meaning and to present an inner world while perfectly representing an outer one. This fact was well understood in the 14th century when the book was originally produced in France, and all Guillaume de Lorris' readers, and Chaucer's too, would have been familiar with the convention, and perfectly well able to interpret the story on two different levels, or if you like on three; a representational, a psychological and a mystical one. If this seems to make the story complicated it is not so. It is the clarity and immediacy of its telling which makes it so applicable.
Ann Brunskill, 14 October 1974
Ann Brunskill, 14 October 1974