The Lancelot Press logo was Robert’s father, William Pope’s idea, and illustrates the saying “the pen is mightier than the sword.” In the late 1960s, William took the idea to a commercial artist who created the logo drawing. Years later, Robert made this outdoor sign based on the logo as a present for his father. An energetic man with strong gifts for communication and self-promotion, William Pope had a romantic notion of publishing as a force for good in the world; as a publisher, he saw himself as a kind of knight or a “man on a mission.” Robert helped his father in the publishing business, and also used the press in his own artistic work to print posters, catalogues and invitation cards. This sign hung beside the front entrance to the family business for many years and has suffered from weather and age.