Lion and Unicorn Press Publications
A selection of books published by the Lion and Unicorn Press are listed below. Original prices are given where known.
1953
Preface to the Manuale Tipografico of 1818
By Bodoni
Translated by H V Marrot
Etched frontispiece by Rosalind Dease
8 x 5in (20.2 x 12.6cm) 80pp
Paper over board (various papers)
60 copies printed (not for sale)
The Tale of Two Swannes
By W Vallans
With wood engravings by David Gentleman
Designed by David Gentleman
8 ¾ x 5 ½ in (22.2. x 14cm) 24pp
Paper over boards
50 copies printed (not for sale)
1955
Handwriting Manual 1553
By Wolffgang Fugger
Translated by Frederick Plaat
Foreword by Harry Cater
Designed by Patricia Davey
5 7/8 x 7 ¾ in (15 x 19.6cm) 128pp
Paper over boards
Subsequently published by Oxford University Press
1956
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Translated by Ormerod Greenwood
Twelve Coloured Lithographs
Illustrated by Roy Morgan
18 7/8 x 12 ½ in (47.4 x 31.6cm) 80pp + 32pp introduction
Loose in portfolio
Edition of 200 at five guineas
1964
Scrapbook Drawings of Stanley Spencer
Selected and introduced by Colin Hayes
Designed by Sashi Rawal
13 ¼ x 9 ½ in (32.5 x 24cm) 138pp
Pictorial cloth covers
1967
A Rake’s Progress
Poem by David Posner
Illustrations by David Hockney
Designed by John Tomlinson
14 ½ x 13 1/4 in (36.7 x 38.5cm) 82pp
Cloth covered boards inserted in plastic spine
Edition of 200 at five guineas and 200 at seven guineas
1968
Splendour of Ornament
Specimens from the Essempio di recammi by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente 1524
By Stanley Morison
List life and literary remains by Esther Potter
Preface by Berthold Wolpe
Designed by Graham Percy
10 1/8 x 8 1/4in (25.7 x 22.2cm) 72pp
Silk covers
1973
Captain Cook’s Florilegium
A selection of engravings from the drawings of planted collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook’s first voyage to the islands of the Pacific with accounts of the voyage by Wilfred Blunt and of the botanical explorations and printes by William T. Stearn
Designed by Jock Kinneir
24 x 18in (61 x 45.5cm)
100 copies with 30 plates and 172pp for sale at 150 guineas, quarter bound
10 copies with 42 plates and 196pp for sale at 450 guineas, full leather binding with acrylic insertion
1975
London Sketchbook
Illustrated by Hugh Casson
Introduction by John Betjeman
Designed by Nigel Paige
14 ½ x 10 ½ in (36.9 x 26.7cm) 56pp
Spiral bound
Edition of 100 at £10