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A printer's dozen : eleven spreads from unrealised books

Title
A printer's dozen : eleven spreads from unrealised books / designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press by Sebastian Carter.
Author
Carter, Sebastian.
Publication
Cambridge [England] : Printed and published by the Rampant Lions Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Cockerell, Sydney Morris, 1906-1987
  • Rampant Lions Press. prt
Description
[51] leaves : col. ill.; 32 cm.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Sample books.
Note
  • "Two hundred copies printed on Arches Velin and Fabriano Ingres Verdastro, and bound in quarter cloth with Cockerell marbled paper boards, numbered 1-200. Eleven copies as above, but quarter-bound in morocco ... signed by the printer, and numbered I-XI"--T.p. verso.
  • Printed in green, blue, red, sepia and black in various types.
  • Leaves [2-7] printed on both sides.
  • Each work is represented by a 2-page spread on off-white Arches paper, preceded by a title leaf (note on the type on verso) and followed by a leaf with notes on the plans for the work, on tan Fabriano Ingres paper.
  • Binding: Publisher's quarter dark blue cloth and marbled paper boards; black leather spine label printed in gold. Issued in brown paper slipcase.
Contents
National proverbs: Arabia -- The four Gospels -- Pliny the Younger and Trajan: Letters -- Aesop's fables -- Dante Alighieri: Inferno -- Philip Sidney: An apology for poetry -- William Shakespeare: King Lear -- Ambrose Bierce: The devil's dictionary -- Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland -- Arthur Rimbaud: Voyelles -- Malcolm Lowry: Through the Panama.
Call Number
*KP+ (Rampant) 05-76
OCLC
  • 29519745
  • NYPG05-B10205
Author
Carter, Sebastian.
Title
A printer's dozen : eleven spreads from unrealised books / designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press by Sebastian Carter.
Imprint
Cambridge [England] : Printed and published by the Rampant Lions Press, c1993.
Local Note
NYPL copy is no. 33.
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Added Author
Cockerell, Sydney Morris, 1906-1987, binding designer.
Rampant Lions Press. Printer
Research Call Number
*KP+ (Rampant) 05-76
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