| Manuscripts/MS Add.9816 contains: |
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| A |
Book printing |
| B |
Ephemeral printing |
| C |
Inscriptions |
| D |
Design |
| E |
Other projects |
| F |
Miscellaneous correspondence |
| G |
Business papers |
| H |
Biographical material |
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Rampant Lions Press Archive
| Title |
Other projects |
| Reference |
MS Add.9816/E |
| Covering Dates |
1935-1999 |
| Extent and Medium |
ca. 3 boxes |
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| Content and context |
This series covers compositions (published and unpublished) by Will and Sebastian Carter, and other projects apart from actual printing, designing for print, and letter cutting. (One or two compositions of Will Carter in this series would probably have been printed by him had they proceeded so far.) |
| Manuscripts/MS Add.9816/E contains: |
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1
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Acquisition of Frederic Warde's Arrighi italic type. Correspondence; notes on this item by Sebastian Carter; showings of the type (1935-1995); trial settings of Spenser, Epithalamium in this type (marked 'Ephithalamium - project'). Correspondents include Arnold Bank, Joseph Blumenthal, Christopher Bradshaw, Jackson Burke, Harry Carter, John Carter, Douglas Cleverdon, Marshall Davidson, Franz Hess (only copies of letters from Will Carter to him), Charles W. Hobson, John Holroyd-Reece, Ernest Ingham, Roger Levenson, Matt. P. Loman, Giovanni Mardersteig, Stanley Morison, Ray Nash, Will Ransom, Vivian Ridler, John Ryder, Hans Schmoller, Paul Standard, Roderick D. Stinehour, Jan van Krimpen, Beatrice Warde, Frederic Warde (a transcript), and James Wells. A book on the subject of this type, planned at one point to be a collaboration with Mardersteig, was never published.
1 envelope. |
1935-1963 |
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2
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Pencil drawings of actresses by Will Carter.
1 envelope. |
1935-1939 |
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3
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Specimens of calligraphy. Practice pieces written out by Will Carter, some signed and dated 1936-1937; with a photocopy of a leaf from a 16th-cent. manuscript marked 'W.C. from P.S. NY, Sept. 2, '41'; and 7 leaves from a printed penmanship manual (George Shelley, The second part of natural writing (London, preface dated 3 Aug. 1714)).
1 envelope, oversize. |
1936-1949 |
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4
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Chancery Italics. Copy (mostly typescript, including carbons, partly autograph manuscript) for a book by Will Carter with this title, including table of contents; dummy of 'experimental pages'; proofs of title 'Chancery italics' with various notes on italic writing books and showings of italic types; correspondence, some letters enclosing further specimens of type. Correspondents include Alfred Fairbank, Frederick. W. Goudy, Stanley Morison, Paul Standard. The book was never published.
1 envelope. |
1940-1948 |
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5
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Edition of Ludovico Arrighi, La operina. Typescript copy for the English translation by Paul Standard, title-page layout (with date 1947), correspondence. With a typescript by Will Carter (dated Dec. 1945) 'A rough draft of suggestions for a series of books to be grouped under the main title of Aspects of chancery cursive', of which this would be part of the first volume. Also with a prospectus for John Howard Benson's edition of the Operina (1954) and a letter (photocopy) of Will's letter to John Carter about this book. The book was not published. Correspondents include Stanley Morison, Paul Standard, James Wardrop.
1 envelope. |
1945-1954 |
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6
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Compositions. 'Chancery italics', Printing Review 46 (Spring 1948), 13-15: copy (autograph manuscript, typescript and carbon), galley proofs, marked. 'An opportunity for penmen', Penrose Annual 48 (1954), 68-70: 2 offprints. 'Some observations of a small printer', Monotype Recorder, 40 no. 2 (summer 1954), 9-20: copy of the printed magazine. Review of William Shakespeare, Complete sonnets (Sylvan Press, 1955) in the Times Literary Supplement: typescript, with letter to Carter from the editor. Review of John Ryder, Printing for pleasure, in the Book Collector (autumn 1955), 260: tear-sheet, with letter to Carter from the editor Christopher Dobson. Annual award for newspaper design: report and awards, 1956: printed pamphlet. Will Carter was one of the three judges. 'Ecole de Lure 1960', Printing News (22 Sep. 1960), 6: tear-sheet. 'Will Carter on his technique of making booklabels' in Philip Beddingham, Will Carter, and Reynolds Stone, Concerning booklabels (Private Libraries Association, 1963). A handlist of books and periodicals on British book design since the war to accompany the Galley Club exhibition of Book Design 45-66 selected by Will Carter: printed pamphlet (1967).
1 envelope. |
1948-1967 |
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7
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Talk by Will Carter to the Double Crown Club, 16 Oct. 1962, on the 'Arrighi' type. Autograph manuscript and menu for the dinner; revised version entitled 'Typographical note' for publication in C. Trypanis, Glass Adonis (Chilmark Press, 1967). With further drafts and notes on the subject by Will Carter.
1 envelope. |
1961-1962 |
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8
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Agency for the European sale of the book Hunt Roman (Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1965). 2 copies of the prospectus Hunt Roman: the birth of a type; correspondence with Will Carter. Correspondents include M. Caflisch, Fonderie Deberny et Peignot, George H. M. Lawrence, James Mosley, G. W. Ovink, René Ponot, Anthony Rota, and G. Story.
1 envelope. |
1966-1967 |
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9
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Acquisition of the Hunt Roman type. Correspondence with Will Carter (1967-1971 and 1980-1981); printed announcement (1981). Correspondents include Arnold Cook Ltd, Banks and Miles, Gertrude L. Benöhr, George H. M. Lawrence, Oxford University Press, Jack Werner Stauffacher, Stempel AG, Stephen Austin and Sons Ltd, D. Stephenson Blake & Co Ltd, and Hermann Zapf.
1 envelope. |
1967-1981 |
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10
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Acquisition of the Golden Cockerel roman type. Correspondence with Will Carter. Correspondents include David Chambers, Peter Cowie, James Mosley, Christopher Sandford, Thomas Yoseloff Ltd (D. G. Burt), University of Reading (Martin Andrews, Michael Bott, Sue Walker).
1 envelope. |
1971-1975 |
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11
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Lecture trip by Sebastian Carter to the United States in 1973. Correspondence with Will and Sebastian Carter. Correspondents include W. Michael Bodden, Dartmouth College Library (Walter W. Wright, Edward Connery Latham), Muir Dawson, Alan Fern, Grolier Club (James H. Heineman), Chester Kerr, Robert L. Leslie, Roger Levenson, Elliot Offner, Rollo G. Silver, Peter Smith, Society of Printers, Boston (Walter T. Tower, Jr.), Gerard A. Valerio, Adrian Wilson, John R. Windle. With a synopsis of the lecture 'The last Kelmscott', keepsakes and lecture announcements and posters.
1 envelope. |
1973 |
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12
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Visit by Sebastian Carter to the United States in 1979. Correspondence with Sebastian Carter. Correspondents include Linnea Gentry, James H. Heineman, Sandra Kirshenbaum, Stuart B. Schimmel, Adrian Wilson, Joyce Lancaster Wilson. With a programme for 'Wayzgoose 1979' (San Francisco).
1 envelope. |
1978-1979 |
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13
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Exhibition 'The Rampant Lions Press - a printing workshop through five decades' at the Adeane Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, May-June 1982. Exhibition labels; layouts of the exhibition; proofs and printed announcements and invitations; clippings; typescript of an interview with Will and Sebastian Carter; tear sheet of the printed interview; clippings about the exhibition; correspondence with Will and Sebastian Carter. Correspondents include John Beech, Ernestine Carter, Michael Chater, Crafts magazine (Martina Margetts), Glyn Daniel and Ruth Daniel, Eastern Arts Association (Jane Heath, Christopher Rye), Fitzwilliam Museum (Michael Jaffé, Paul Woudhuysen), Graham Hughes, Interiors magazine (Megan Tresidder), A. C. Jeffries, Geoffrey Keynes, Sandra Kirshenbaum, Adrian Lack, Robin Mackworth-Young, Marjory McFarlane, John G. Murray, Gerald Landau, John Miles, Robert Norton, Vivian Ridler and Anne Ridler, Richard Scurfield, Ivor Smith, John Sparrow. Some correspondence pertains to the exhibition private view and party.
2 envelopes. |
1979-1983 |
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14
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Visit by Sebastian Carter to the United States in 1985. Correspondence. Correspondents include Terry Belanger, Caxton Club, Chicago (Mary Beth Beal), Steven Corey, Julie Fawcus, J. Hill Hamon, Charles Heiskell, Robin Heyeck, Glenn House, Illinois State University (Robert Sokan), Donald E. Knuth, Newberry Library, Chicago (James M. Wells), Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Betty Bright, Jim Sitter), Northwestern University Library (R. Russell Maylone), Roy Rice, Steve Skaggs, Elaine B. Smyth, University of California, Los Angeles (John Bidwell, Diana M. Thomas), University of Iowa (K. K. Merker), University of Kentucky Libraries (James D. Birchfield), University of Texas Humanities Research Center (Decherd Turner), Robert D. Weigel, Adrian Wilson, Joyce Lancaster Wilson, Jake and Josephine Zeitlin. With itineraries, lecture announcements and posters.
1 envelope. |
1984-1985 |
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15
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Visits by Sebastian Carter to the United States in 1986 and 1988. Correspondence. Correspondents include Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Jim Sitter), Roxburghe Club, San Francisco (Jeremy Cole), Northwestern University Library (R. Russell Maylone), John Sparrow, Typography Laboratory, University of California (chiefly Diana M. Thomas), University of Iowa, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (Beverly P. Lynch). With notes and itineraries.
1 envelope. |
1985-1988 |
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16
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Visit by Sebastian Carter to the United States in 1990. Correspondence. Correspondents include Bruce Beck, Caxton Club, Chicago (Hayward R. Blake), Jeffrey Cooper, Library Council of Northwestern University (Susan P. Jordan), Northwestern University Library (R. Russell Maylone), Princeton University Library (William L. Joyce), Donn W. Sanford, Michael Tarachow. With an itinerary; lecture announcements and a poster; programme and keepsakes from the meeting of the Typocrafters (Chicago, 4-7 Oct. 1990).
1 envelope. |
1990 |
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17
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Visit by Sebastian Carter to the United States in 1999. Correspondence. Correspondents include Anne Anninger, J. F. Coakley, Kit Currie, Jerry Kelly, Elliot Ottner. . With itinerary, notes, notes for a talk to the American Printing History Association, 'Rampant Lions Press at fifty - retrospectus and prospectus'.
1 envelope. |
1999 |
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18
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Miscellaneous. Printed and handwritten papers of uncertain relevance to this archive.
1 envelope. |
1950-2000 |
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