Rampant Lions Press

Clover Hill Editions

A significant collaboration with Douglas Cleverdon was the Clover Hill Editions, which included Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1964), with intaglio engravings by David Jones printed from the original plates, The Mountains (1968), R S Thomas’s text illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone after drawings by John Piper, Sixe Idyllia of Theocritus (1971), with etchings by Anthony Gross, and William Morris’s The story of Cupid and Psyche (1974), with Edward Burne-Jones’s illustrations mostly engraved in wood by Morris himself.

The Mountains.

The Clover Hill series ended with books devoted to Cleverdon’s old friend David Jones: two redesigned editions of titles previously produced by the Golden Cockerel Press in the 1920s, The Chester Play of the Deluge (1977) and The Book of Jonah (1979); and finally Cleverdon’s survey of The Engravings of David Jones (1981). In this last book, a few of the wood blocks had disappeared or were unable to be used, and so these were reproduced by offset lithography, but all the rest, like the blocks for The MountainsCupid and PsycheThe Deluge and Jonah, were printed from the wood.