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Rampant Lions Press

Based in Cambridge
1934-1950
A Preface being that Written by John Baskerville for his 1758 Edition of Milton's Paradise Lost
(1934 Rampant Lions Press, Slough) - 50
Sir Thomas BROWNE : The Last Chapter of Urne Buriall
(1946 Rampant Lions Press) - 175
(Ed) John WAYNFLETE : (Ed) Clerihews by Various Hands (1946 Rampant Lions Press)
Hardy AMIES : Some Clerihews
(1947 Rampant Lion Press for the author)

1951-1960
W J CORY : Lucretilia
(1951 Rampant Lions Press) - 175
Siegfried SASSOON : Emblems of Experience
(1951 Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge)
- Ltd Ed 75
Barrett PARKER : Collects and Prayers in Wartime
(1953 Rampant Lions Press for
Newman Neame, London) - 100
John FARROW : Seven Poems in Pattern
(1955 Rampant Lions Press) - 250
Robin SKELTON : Two Ballads of the Muse
(1960 Rampant Lions Press) - 100 signed
Christopher SMART : A Song to David
(1960 Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge)
- 600. Lynton Lamb frontis

1961-1965
Russell BRAIN : Poems and Verses
(1961 PP by Rampant Lions Press) - 100
F J LELIEVRE : Cory's Lucretilis
(1964 Rampant Lions Press, London) - 300
A M T COLT : Weeds and Wild Flowers
(1965 Ptd at Rampant Lions Press for Two-Horse Press)
- George Mackley

1966-1970
Iris TREE : The Marsh Picnic
(1966 Rampant Lion Press, Cambridge)
- 300. Intro by John Betjeman
Geoffrey KEYNES : Henry James in Cambrige
(1967 Rampant Lions Press for Heffer) - 1000
C A TRYPANIS : The Elegies of a Glass Adonis
(1967 Rampant Lions Press for Chilmark Press, NY)
- 450 signed
Bryan GUINNESS : The Engagement
(1968 Rampant Lions Press £3)
- Olwyn Bowey 350 signed
Engraved in the Wood : A Collection of Wood Engravings by George Mackley
(1968 Rampant Lions Press for the Two Horse Press) - 300 signed
John SPARROW : Lapidaria Sexta
(1969 Rampant Lions Press for CUP) - 200
AESCHYLUS : The Agamemnon
(1969 Rampant Lions Press) - 500
R S THOMAS : The Mountains
(1969 Rampant Lions Press / Chilmark Press, US)
- 350. John Piper
(1969 Rampant Lions Press / Chilmark Press, US) - De Luxe Edition 110
David PIPER : Shades : An Essay on English Portrait Silhouettes
(1970 Rampant Lions Press for Chilmark Press, NY) - 500
John SCHRODER: Catalogue of Books and MS by Rupert Brooke, Edward Marsh
& Christopher Hassall
(1970 Rampant Lion Press, Cambs) - 450

1971-1975
(Trans) BRIDSON, Douglas G : The Quest of Gilgamesh (1972 Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge)
- Michael Ayrton
(Ed) Nicolas BARKER : In Fair Verona : English Travellers in Italy
(1972 Rampant Lions Press) - 100
D G BRIDSON : The Quest of Gilgamesh
(1972 Rampant Lions Press, London)
- 125. Frontis Michael Ayrton
John MILTON : Areopagitica : A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing
(1973 Rampant Lions Press for Deighton Bell) - 500, of which 100 de luxe
John SPARROW : Santa Maria Della Salute
(1975 Rampant Lions Press) - John Piper
Christopher FRY : Root and Sky - Poetry from the Plays of Christopher Fry
(1975 Rampant Lion Press, Cambridge) - 220 signed
John SPARROW : Lapidaria Septima
(1975 Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge) - 200

1976-1980
Brooke CRUTCHLEY : The Cambridge Christmas Books
(1976 Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge)
- 220. 200 signed
S T COLERIDGE : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(1976 Rampant Lions Press)
- 140 signed by Patrick Procktor
Aidan MACKEY : Mr Chesterton Comes to Tea
(1978 Rampant Lions Press for
Vintage Publications, Cambridge £45) - 370 signed & Numbered
Little Things to Please Little Minds
(1979 Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge) - 400. James Bruce
Oliver GOLDSMITH : The Deserted Village
(1980 Rampant Lions Press) - Miriam Macgregor
Imre GROSS : The Very Rich Hours of Le Boulve
(1980 Rampant Lions Press, Oxford)
- 120 signed
Signed edition offered in 1999 for £575

After 1981
L D LERNER : A Dialogue
(1983 Rampant Lions Press) - 200. engravings by Jane Lydbury
Samuel JOHNSON : The Vanity of Human Wishes
(1984 Rampant Lions Press)
- Denis Tegetmeier
(Ed) R M HEALEY : Grigson at Eighty - Tributes from Friends & Admirers
(1985 Rampant Lions Press)
Colin FRANKLIN : Printing and the Mind of Morris
(1986 Rampant Lions Press) - 505
Tony HARRISON : The Mother of the Muses
(1989 PP at Rampant Lions Press)
Sir Steven RUNCIMAN : Paradise Regained
(1992 PP at Rampant Lions Press) - 240

Related Writers

Michael Ayrton
Oliver Goldsmith
Henry James
Samuel Johnson
John Milton
Christopher Smart


See also

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson
Lynton Harold Lamb
John Egerton Piper
Siegfried (lorraine) Sassoon