The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1969)
Edited and translated by Raymond Postgate. The Greek text with a lively English translation and notes. Set in Baskerville and Porson Greek and printed on mould-made paper. Bound in full cloth, with coloured endpapers and an acetate wrapper.
142pp. 25 x 14.5 cm. 500 copies of which 250 were signed by Postgate.
Unsigned copies. £30
Signed edition out of print.
Collecting Rupert Brooke (1992)
John Schroder describes how he built up his notable Brooke collection, whose Catalogue the Rampant Lions Press published in 1970. His account is full of insights into how to cajole material out of reluctant vendors, and presents a nostalgic picture of a kind of collecting by enthusiastic individuals which is become ever rarer. Set in Baskerville and printed on Zerkall laid mould-made paper, with four pages of reproductions of manuscript material, bound in patterned-paper-covered boards.
26pp. 25 x 15.5 cm. 250 copies. £40
Grigson at Eighty (1985)
Essays, poems and a drawing to honour Geoffrey Grigson on his eightieth birthday, by Gavin Ewart, Roy Fuller, Richard Ingrams, Anthony Thwaite, Fred Uhlman and others, edited by Robin Healey. Set in Bembo and printed on Abbey Mill antique laid paper, bound in a printed cover.
64pp. 25 x 15.5 cm. 375 copies. £20
There was a cased edition of 75 copies, printed on Hahnemühle mould-made paper. Out of print.
Miscellany 2 (1998)
A showpiece of Sebastian Carter’s work at the Rampant Lions Press. Like The Rampant Lions Press Miscellany of ten years before, which was produced jointly with his father, it is a mixture of completed and projected work, and some pieces done just for the fun of it. Many of the Press’s more unusual types are shown, a number of wood engravings and lino cuts are reprinted from the blocks, and a variety of papers used, mostly mould-made. There is a foreword describing the previous decade’s work at the Press, and a checklist of books printed 1988–97. Quarter-bound in cloth with specially-designed patterned-paper boards, in an acetate wrapper.
96pp. 26 x 18 cm. 225 copies. £110
There was a special edition of 20 copies with some variant papers, hand-colouring and signed illustrations, in a variant binding. Out of print.
More Booklabels (2003)
Sebastian Carter. A small booklet with examples of booklabel designs, both drawn and typeset. In series with Drawings, Devices and Designs (1983), Bookplates, Cartouches and Designs (1985), Eight Buildings (1990) and Bits and Pieces (1994). Printed on Conqueror Oyster Wove, in printed grey card wrappers.
16pp. 13.5 x 10.5 cm. 200 copies. £10
Painting with Type (2007)
Sebastian Carter. Six pictures constructed with the original geometric type ornaments dating from the 1920s from the collection of Hellmuth Weissenborn, and printed in three to five colours on Zerkall mould-made paper. With a foreword set in Grotesque 215. Sewn into Bugra Butten wrappers.
16pp. 18 x 18 cm. 180 signed copies. £40
There was a special edition of 10 copies with an extra set of the prints. Out of print.
Poets of the Daniel Press (1988)
Colin Franklin. An appraisal of the poets published by one of the very few private presses of the classical period that specialised in new poetry. Set in Bell.
Very limited editions on vellum, hand-made paper and mould-made paper are out of print.
Very unusually for the Rampant Lions Press, an offset edition was produced, reduced slightly from the letterpress setting, printed by Call Printers on Chariot Cartridge. Thread-sewn in wrappers printed at the Press.
96pp. 22 x 14 cm. £20
The Psalms of David (1977)
Miles Coverdale’s translation, as used in the Book of Common Prayer. Hand-set in Eric Gill’s Golden Cockerel Roman – the first use of the type at the Rampant Lions Press – and printed on J Green mould-made paper. Bound by George Miller. 280 copies in quarter vellum with specially designed patterned paper boards, in an acetate wrapper.
152 pp. 34 x 23 cm. £200
Twenty copies bound in full vellum are out of print.
The Unknown Masterpiece (1997)
Honoré de Balzac, in a new translation by Peter Raby. With six aquatints by Thomas Newbolt. Balzac’s novella about the impossibility of perfection in art, which was so admired by Cézanne and Picasso, set in Times New Roman and printed on Zerkall ‘Silurian’ mould-made paper. All the editions have Thomas Newbolt’s beautiful life studies tipped in.
The two special editions are quarter-bound in tawed goatskin with plain oak boards, in a slip-case, and have the original aquatints, printed at the artist’s studio.
There are 40 copies signed by the artist and the translator at £500, and 10 copies with an additional portfolio with an extra set of the prints, each signed by Thomas Newbolt, at £925.
The regular edition of 250 copies is bound in quarter cloth with specially-designed patterned paper boards, in a slip-case, with the prints reproduced by duotone offset lithography at the Stinehour Press, Vermont. £80.
52 pp. 26 x 18.5 cm.
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