2013 The Rampant Lions Press: A Narrative Catalogue

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First Edition, Signed, With Dustwrapper

Signed by the author to the half title page. 

The first edition of this work. 

Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. 

With a printed out email from Sebastian Carter to the recipient of this copy, Gerald Cinamon, chief designer for Penguin Books and a master of the paste-up method of layout, becoming a specialist in this field at a time when letterpress was rapidly being replaced by offset litho as the means of printing books. 

Cinamon also seemed to attend an exhibition a year after this work's publication, with the leaflet also loosely inserted. 

This volume gathers a bibliographic reference of all works published by the Rampant Lions Press 1924 until the closure of the Press in 2008. 

Compiled by Sebastian Carter, the son of the firm's founder, Will Carter. He continued running the Press from 1966 onwards.