Sebastian Carter joined his father Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge in 1966, and later ran the Press until 2008. His Narrative Catalogue of the Press’s 321 books is published by Oak Knoll Press. His Twentieth Century Type Designers (1987) has become a standard work. He has contributed to the Oxford Companion to the Book and the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. He received the 2013 laureate award from the American Printing History Association.