[3] He held the Sandars Readership in Bibliography at Cambridge University in 1947 and lectured on Taste and technique in book collecting: a study of recent developments in Great Britain and the United States.
He was buried in the cemetery at Eton and Housman's poem, XLVII – FOR MY FUNERAL, "O thou that from thy mansion" was read at the service.
Nicholas Barker produced the sixth, seventh and eighth editions (1980) and was joined by co-editor, Simran Thadani, for the ninth.
[13] He served on the board of directors of the journal, The Book Collector, published by Queen Anne Press, a company managed by Ian Fleming creator of James Bond.
[15] Carter spoke at the Double Crown Club in honour of Morrison, "The wise affair: printing and the mind of man", in 1967.
[17] He was also a humorist and writer of clerihews, whimsical, four-line biographical poems, some of which were printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press in 1938.