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The Collection of the late P.J.R. Catterall
Lot 334

RAMPANT LIONS PRESS
The Song of Solomon... Illustrated by Line-cuts by Harry Hicken and Rubrication by Will Carter, LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, 1937--BRIDSON (D.G.) The Quest of Gilgamesh, LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, various sizes, published or printed by Rampant Lions Press; and 53 other books, and 4 pieces of printed ephemera, all limited editions published by various small presses, all printed by the Rampant Lions Press (66)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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RAMPANT LIONS PRESS

The Song of Solomon... Illustrated by Line-cuts by Harry Hicken and Rubrication by Will Carter, LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, 1937--BRIDSON (D.G.) The Quest of Gilgamesh, LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, original lithograph by Michael Ayrton, 1972--CAREY (JOHN) Vegetable Gardening, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, colour linocuts by Clare Melinsky, 1989--FRANKLIN (COLIN) Printing and the Mind of Morris, ONE OF 50 COPIES on Barcham Green handmade paper, from an overall edition of 500, 1986--CARTER (WILL AND SEBASTIAN) The Rampant Lions Press Miscellany, LIMITED TO 185 COPIES, 1988--MILTON (JOHN) Areopagitica, ONE OF 100 COPIES IN FULL MOROCCO, 1973; idem, another copy, LIMITED TO 400 COPIES bound in buckram, 1973--CARTER (ANGELA) The Tiger's Bride. With Fourteen Linocuts by Corinna Sargood, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, 2000--The Psalms of David, LIMITED TO 350 COPIES, 1977, publisher's bindings, various sizes, published or printed by Rampant Lions Press; and 53 other books, and 4 pieces of printed ephemera, all limited editions published by various small presses, all printed by the Rampant Lions Press (66)

Footnotes

Includes five works from the collection of John Carter, bibliophile and brother of Rampant Lions Press founder Will Carter. Includes the extremely rare The Shakespearian Touch by T.S. Carter, NUMBER 2 OF 8 COPIES, inscribed "John Carter from the printer", The Junior Branch of the Rampant Lions Press, [Cambridge, 25.4.54], and Floreat Bibliomania by A.N.L. Munby, inscribed by the publisher Philip Hofer "For John [Carter], because you are my oldest friend in England, and because your brother Will printed this witty essay by your friend Munby, Many reasons, for a very small present. 21 Nov. 1953. P.H.".

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