Janus: Rampant Lions Press Archive

Manuscripts/MS Add.9816/A contains:
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43	John Saltmarsh, King Henry VI and the royal foundations: a commemorative oration delivered at Eton College (Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, 1972)
44	Suns and moons: 8 colour woodcuts by Michael Rothenstein accompanying poems by Donne, Yeats, Shelley, Baudelaire, Elytis, and others (Rampant Lions, 1971)
45	Samuel Beckett, The north; with three original etchings by Avigdor Arikha (Enitharmon Press, 1972)
46	D. G. Bridson, The quest of Gilgamesh; with an original lithograph by Michael Ayrton (Rampant Lions, 1972)
47	Jasper Rootham, Verses 1928-1972 (1973)
48	John Milton, Areopagitica: a speech of Mr John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing, to the Parliament of England, edited, with an introduction and notes by Isabel Rivers (Deighton, Bell, 1973)
49	A. N. L. Munby, Book-collecting in the 1930s (Tony Appleton, 1973)
50	Sebastian Carter, First principles of typography in the nineteen-seventies (Bowaters United Kingdom Paper Co., 1973)
51	Marion Stewart, ed., King Orphius. Sir Colling. The brother's lament. Litel Musgray : poems from Scottish Manuscripts of c. 1586 and c. 1630 (Ninth of May, 1973)
52	Thom Gunn, Mandrakes; illustrated by Leonard Baskin (Rainbow Press, 1973)
53	Martyn Skinner, Old Rectory; or, The interview; The session in seven scenes (Rampant Lions, 1973)
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Rampant Lions Press Archive

Title	John Milton, Areopagitica: a speech of Mr John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing, to the Parliament of England, edited, with an introduction and notes by Isabel Rivers (Deighton, Bell, 1973)
Reference	MS Add.9816/A/48
Covering Dates	1965-1972
Extent and Medium	1 envelope

Content and context

Layouts; estimates; artwork; prospectus (copy and marked proof); correspondence with Will and Sebastian Carter

Includes correspondence, specimen setting of 2 pages, and other papers from an earlier project. 'First Areo¬pagitica project. To be illustrated by Henry Moore as a Clover Hill edition. Lack of interest on Moore's part meant this was abandoned.' For the 1973 book 'The bulk of the preparatory material - pasteup, setting copy etc - sold to James Dearden, College of Librarianship, Wales, shortly after publication' - notes by Sebastian Carter.

Correspondents include J. B. Broadbent, Cambridge University Press, Chilmark Press, Douglas Cleverdon, Louis G. Cowan, Deighton, Bell & Co. (John Beech), Dorstel press (Robert Nartnoll), Monotype Corporation, Henry Moore.

Index Terms

Cleverdon, Thomas Douglas James (1903-1987) publisher

Moore, Henry Spencer (1898-1986) sculptor

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