![]() “Dear Sir or Madam,” he wrote, “today we received a copy of a brochure publicizing your Rare Book School. I used this lion again on the RBS 1984 flyer-but this time around, the mailing prompted a letter from one Dave Oliphant, Senior Editor of Humanities Research Center Publications at the University of Texas. Twenty-five years ago, when I needed an image to help advertise the first Rare Book School, I went to this folder, pulled out the engagingly goofy-looking lion shown to the left, and incorporated it into the flyer for RBS 1983, published in December 1982. The RBS Lionsīack in our Columbia days, I used to keep a folder containing pictures of interesting lions I came across in periodicals and catalogs, for potential use on posters and brochures: Columbia University (founded as King’s College in the 1750s) had long associated itself with British royal insignia, crowns and lions in particular. The following text, by RBS Founding Director Terry Belanger, appeared in slightly different form in the 2008 Book Arts Press Address Book (which in turn was drawn from the 2002 RBS Christmas card some of the earlier text has been re-incorporated).
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