Rummonds began printing in Quito, Ecuador in 1966, using the Plain Wrapper Press imprint.
The following year Rummonds moved his publishing venture and printing equipment to Verona, Italy, where he remained until 1982.
[7] During this period in Verona he printed one of the great treasures of twentieth-century fine-press publications: Siete Poemas Sajones / Seven Saxon Poems[8] by Jorge Luis Borges with impressions by Arnaldo Pomodoro.
Anthony Rota, the London antiquarian bookseller, was referring to this book when he wrote “It is seldom that editorial, typographical, and practical printing skills are as evenly matched and as successfully combined as they are in the fortunate case of Mr. Richard-Gabriel Rummonds.”[9] Among his other publications[10] are Three Poems of Passion[11] by C. P. Cavafy with intaglio prints by Ger van Dijck; Will and Testament: A Fragment of Biography[12] by Anthony Burgess with screenprints by Joe Tilson; Prima Che Tu Dica “Pronto”/Before You Say “Hello”[13] by Italo Calvino with woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi; Atlantic Crossing[14] by John Cheever; and Journeys in Sunlight[15] by Dana Gioia with etchings by Fulvio Testa.
There were two major retrospective exhibitions of his work: the first in 1981 at the New York Public Library, about which Edwin McDowell in The New York Times, wrote “[NYPL] is featuring what is considered to be one of its most beautiful exhibitions ever.”[17] The second was in 1999 at the Biblioteca di Via Senato in Milan, Italy.