Armida, Signed (4 results)

* With handwritten postcard from the printer Will Carter * 2 Vols, folio, quarter green buckram lettered in gilt over strikingly decorative yellow Tatsumaki Japanese paper boards by Mansell of London, housed in the original card slip-case. ** Edition Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the artist George Mackley. Designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press in Monotype Arrighi types on Original Turkey Mill paper. *** The c.60pp text volume includes 11 wood engravings (3 full-page) by Mackley. The accompanying portfolio comprises an extra suite of Mackleyâs wood engravings specially printed on Japanese Hosho, a paper particularly favoured by wood engravers. *** An excellent copy but for the following faults : a few light marks and scuffs to the protective slip-case : a couple of light scuffs to the surface of the paper binding of the text vol (see photo) : a few light fox spots to each of the illustrations contained in the additional portfolio of engravings. *** ** Will Carter Association : this copy with a witty handwritten postcard from Will Carter dated 9 Sept 1965 and addressed to L. Veale, a print tutor at the Berkshire College of Art. Veale had evidently drawn Will Carterâs attention to one or more errata in the text, to which Carter replied, quoting Paul Standardâs very recent Chapters on Writing & Printing (Anvil Press, Lexington, Kentucky 1963 : 134 copies only) : â âNote on errata - it is said that the polite Chinese intentionally leave errors in their books in order that the reader, on finding them, may feel superior.â (cf. Chapters on Writing and Printing) Thanks for your cheque. Will Carterâ. *** This is the first of two superb books printed by the Rampant Lions for The Two-Horse Press (Armida Colt and her husband, hence the two Colts = The Two-Horse Press). It was followed in 1968 by the Coltsâ magnificent collection of wood engravings by George Mackley titled Engraved In The Wood. *** Weeds and Wild Flowers is a scarce and uncommon Rampant Lions book. It was included in The Grolier Club Exhibition of 1999 titled A Century for the Century : Fine Printed Books 1900 â" 1999, a survey of 100 books outstanding for their âbeauty and excellenceâ, an attempt âto cull the best of the beautiful books of the entire centuryâ. **** To order this book, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question. We can then confirm availability.

Folio. Limited edition. #120 of 300 copies, signed by the artist. Original paper-covered booklet, printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge on paper made on the cylinder mould machine at Wookey Hole, Somerset. The type is Hermann Zapf's Palatino. With original prospectus and complete list of the 68 engravings held loose in paper wrappers. All housed in a brown cloth-covered drop-back box, hand-made by Gray's at Cambridge, with printed paper label to the spine. 55 engravings printed from the original blocks and the remaining 13 reproduced photographically from original prints because the blocks had been lost. The outside of the box is a bit scuffed. Contents fine. Patricia Jaffé's copy with several letters to her from Colin Campbell of the University of Exeter regarding her loan of engravings by the artist for an exhibition held at the university in November 1977.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Size of the binding: 9 3/4 inches x 12 3/8 in., signed limitation page; illustrated with 68 wood-engravings. Bound by Chris Hicks in full dark green Chieftan morocco leather with a design of four falling leaves in orange and brown leathers, across the spine and covers, both inlaid and onlaid, the leaf veins in gold line; gilt title label on spine, pale yellow endpapers, headbands. In a sturdy, gray cloth-covered drop-back box with title label. Created by Chris Hicks in 1986, and stamped: CLH 86. Weight: 5 lbs. Signed by Illustrator(s).

FIRST EDITION 4to., 300 copies signed by the artist, this marked 'out of series'; pp.18 + colophon booklet, list of engravings and 67 [of 68] loose leaves of engravings printed on rectos only with printed captions in sepia, 55 from the original blocks, the others from line blocks reproduced photographically from surviving prints - the original blocks having been lost. Printed on Saunders Wookey Hole paper in Zapf's Palatino; the whole housed in original solander box by Gray's of Cambridge. A fine set of this tour-de-force tribute from Rampant Lions Press, sadly LACKING 'Broken Willow' the first engraving in the set (reproduced in the Exeter Univ. Streatham Court Gallery Mackley exhibition catalogue of 1977. Evidently a set made up by Will Carter, the original edition having sold out; with accompanying ALS from Carter to a Mr Jones: 'To my embarrassment, I find that the set of Mackley prints which I thought I had, must have gone elsewhere. But I do have an out of series copy of the complete work [which] I am prepared to part with. for the same sum I mentioned.'.