THE RAMPANT LIONS PRESS: A narrative catalogue.
Pp. 208(last blank), 16 coloured or part-coloured plates within pagination, black & white frontispiece, pictorial half-title page and numerous text illustrations, appendices, index; demy 4to; dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; together with a cloth backed marbled papered portfolio containing a specially printed booklet of type facsimiles and impressions from original blocks, several specimen pages and prospectuses of Rampant Lions Press books, plus some extra original material; housed together within a larger compartmented matching cloth slipcase; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown of the text volume; Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, 2013. Limited edition, special issue, being one of only ten numbered copies thus, signed by the author. *Founded by Will Carter in 1924, the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge, England, became one of the leading letterpress workshops in the decades after the Second World War. Will Carter's son Sebastian joined the press in the 1960. Item #163734
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