In 1960 Roth won the William and Noma Copley Award, in recognition of his book projects, and opted to use the prize money to produce a new artist’s book. Over the next several years he worked via correspondence, sending the project piecemeal from Iceland, where he was living at the time, to artist Richard Hamilton, a longtime friend and collaborator, who oversaw its production in London. Copley Book is about the process of making a book: its pages are an accumulation of Roth’s doodles and notes to himself; instructions on printing, production, and scale; mirrored and symmetrical images taken from an Icelandic children’s textbook; and a copy of a letter from the printer, who apologizes for having misplaced two pages intended for the volume. He reissued the project in 1974 as part of his Collected Works series.