ROBERT GIBBINGS LIST

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1.Songs & Poems by Henry Carey, with decorations by Robert Gibbings. Crown 4to, 26cm, pp.64[2] + colophon, Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1924. Handset in Caslon, printed in red and black on unbleached Arnold paper. One of 350 (380) standard copies, quarter-bound in parchment, with light blue boards, lettered in gold up the spine. Illustrated with 24 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. The music was drawn by Gladys Evans and engraved by W.M.R. Quick. A very good to fine copy. £100 (Chanticleer 20, Kirkus 24)

2. Pierre de Bourdeille. The Lives of Gallant Ladies. Translated out of the French by H.M. [Henry Macnamara]. Two vols., crown 4to, pp.261[7] & pp.251[7], Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1924. One of 625 (718) sets printed in Caslon on rag paper with initial letters in green. Illustrated with 10 woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. Pale green paper-covered sides, black line spines with pink printed labels (chipped), edges uncut. Spines worn, some foxing to endpapers, lacking the tipped-in signed limitation statement. A fair set, suitable for rebinding. £65 The first work published by the Golden Cockerel Press after Robert Gibbings took it over. (Chanticleer 18, Kirkus 23)

3. Red Wise, by E.Powys Mathers. First edition, 8vo, 22cm, pp.[viii],98[2], colophon, The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1926. Number 246 of 500 copies set in Caslon and printed in red and black on handmade paper. Illustrated with 8 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Quarter white buckram with gilt spine titling, red paper-covered boards, patterned endpapers printed in green and gold. Printed paper dust-jacket with a repeat engraving on the front panel, slightly soiled at the spine. A very good copy. £185 (Chanticleer 34, Kirkus 28) 4. Pelagea and other poems, by A.E. Coppard. 8vo, 23cm, 44pp. + colophon, Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint. Lawrence, 1926. Number 331 of 425 copies set in Caslon and printed in black and red on English hand-made paper. Decorated with 6 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Quarter cream buckram with gilt spine titling, batik paper sides puce and yellow, edges untrimmed. A fine copy, but lacking the printed dust-jacket. £90 (Chanticleer 43, Kirkus 30)

5. The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian. Translated from the Greeke into English by Francis Hickes [1634]. With an introduction by J.S.Phillimore. Together with the Greeke. Folio, 32cm, pp.[iv], 44 + colophon, Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1927. Number 101 of 275 copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper with the Greek text arranged as a border. Illustrated with 55 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Quarter reddish-brown morocco with 5 raised bands and gilt spine titling, grey linen sides, t.e.g., others uncut. A fine copy. £1,500 A superbly conceived book. (Chanticleer 53, Kirkus 32)

6. A Mirror for Witches, by Esther Forbes, in which is reflected the Life, Machinations & Death of Famous Doll Bilby who with more than feminine perversity preferred a Demon to a Mortal lover. Here is also told How and Why a Righteous and Most Awful Judgment befel her, destroying both Corporeal Body & immortal Soul. Embellished with Twelve wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Square 8vo, 19.5cm, pp.ix[1], 228, 9 plates, William Heinemann, London, 1928. Printed on antique wove paper with the title-page in red and black. 12 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Bound in black cloth, blocked in gold on the front with a cut representing fire, titled in gilt across the spine. Cream paper dust-jacket printed in Koch Neuland with a repeat engraving. Dust-jacket slightly dusty. A very good copy indeed. £70 (Kirkus 35)

7. Count Stefan, by A.E. Coppard. First edition, 8vo, 22cm, [viii],57[1]pp., colophon, Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928. Number 575 of 600 copies handset in Caslon and printed on English handmade paper. Wood- engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 smaller engravings by Robert Gibbings. Quarter mustard buckram with gilt spine lettering, marbled paper-covered boards, blue, buff and green. Red pictorial dust-jacket a trifle faded at the spine. A near fine copy. £120 (Chanticleer 57, Kirkus 33)

8. Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes & Other Poems by John Keats. With Engravings by Robert Gibbings. Folio, 31cm, pp.[viii] 100 [8], Printed and Illustrated by Robert Gibbings at The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928. Set in Caslon Old Face. Number 75 of 485 (500) copies printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper with a special Cockerel watermark. 19 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings, including the 5 decorated initial letters which appear on pp.1,3,8,22 and 69. The remaining initial letters, the word LAMIA (in red) on the title-page and IT (in red) on p.18 were engraved by Eric Gill; the cockerel below the colophon is by David Jones. Quarter-bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in sharkskin, boards covered with grey buckram, lettered in gold across the spine, gold top, other edges uncut. A fine copy. £1,350 (Chanticleer 62, Kirkus 37)

9. A Circle of the Seasons: A Translation of the Ritu-Samhara of Kalidasa made from various European sources by E. Powys Mathers. With Engravings by Robert Gibbings. 4to, 24cm, pp.[viii], 20 [10]; 3 plates. Printed by Robert Gibbings at The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, December 1928 (1929). Set in Caslon Old Face Italic. Number 375 of 500 copies printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. Four copper engravings by Robert Gibbings. Full bound in buckram (spine a bit darkened) with gilt spine titling and gold top. Tissue-guarded. A very good copy indeed. £120 (Chanticleer 64, Kirkus 37)

10. The 7th Man: A True Cannibal Tale of the South Seas told in fifteen wood engravings and precisely one hundred and eighty nine words, by Robert Gibbings. Crown 8vo, 19cm, pp.[viii], 14 [10], Printed and published by the author at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1930. Set in Caslon Old Face. Number 283 of 500 copies on Dutch hand-made paper. Illustrated with 17 wood engravings (including the running cockerel below the colophon) by Robert Gibbings. Quarter-bound in yellow buckram, boards covered in red and cream paper patterned with palm and skulls, spine lettered upwards in gold, top and fore-edge gilt. Light toning to endpapers. A near fine copy. £185 (Chanticleer 72, Kirkus 16)

11. The Man from Kilsheelan: A Tale, by A.E. Coppard. With a woodcut by Robert Gibbings and a Foreword by the Author. First edition, 8vo, 25cm, pp.38 [2], one plate, William Jackson Books Ltd, Chancery Lane, London, 1930. Number 428 of 550 copies printed by the Chiswick Press on fine wove paper and signed by the author. Woodcut frontispiece. Blue buckram titled in gilt on the spine and upper board, gilt top. A fine copy. £40 No.3 of the Furnival Books. (Kirkus 38)

12. The Hundredth Story, by A.E. Coppard. With Engravings by Robert Gibbings. First edition, royal 8vo, 24cm, pp.[viii] 57 [7], Printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1930 (1931). Set in 'Golden Cockerel' face type. Number 611 of 1000 copies on Batchelor hand-made paper. Illustrated with 5 wood-engravings (including the running cock). Quarter-bound in emerald morocco, spine gilt and top edge gilt, special paper-covered sides by Tirzah Garwood. A near fine copy though lacking the loose Notice to Subscribers. £160 (Chanticleer 74, Kirkus 39) The first book in the very successful 'Guinea Series' of illustrated modern authors. This copy is of particular interest insofar as it bears the bookplate of the Golden Cockerel Press and is inscribed and dated by Robert Gibbings.

13. Salambo, by Gustave Flaubert. Translated by E.Powys Mathers. Decorated with Engravings on Wood by Robert Gibbings. Crown 4to, 25cm, pp.[iv],318 + colophon, Printed and made in Great Britain by the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1931. Set in 14pt Golden Cockerel type. Number 41 of 500 copies printed in red and black on Dutch hand-made paper. Illustrated with 18 wood-engravings and a decorated title-page. Quarter bound in dull blue canvas, the boards covered with dun-coloured paper patterned in black; leather label on spine titled in gilt, gilt top, other edges uncut. Slight darkening to endpapers. A near fine copy. £200 (Chanticleer 77, Kirkus 40)

14. Initiation. Translations from Poems of the Didinga & Lango Tribes, by J.H. Driberg. Decorations by Robert Gibbings. Chequebook 8vo, 23cm, pp.[viii], 29 [3], Printed and Made in Great Britain by The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1932. Text set in Gill Sans Serif and printed on hand-made paper. Number 210 of 325 copies signed by the author. 11 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings each printed in a coloured ink. Bound in maize buckram (spine somewhat darkened), titled in gilt up the spine, decorated in gilt on the upper board, top and fore-edge gilt. A very good copy indeed. £130 (Chanticleer 79, Kirkus 41)

15. Fourteen Wood Engravings from Drawings made on Orient Line Cruises. Folio, 33cm, [32]pp., illustrations on rectos only. Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, [Waltham St. Lawrence], 1932. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. Illustrated with 14 full-page and 2 smaller wood engravings by Robert Gibbings, done on the rectos only. Sewn into yellow handmade paper wrappers, titled in black. A fine copy. £350 Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, but as a private commission and so not reckoned a Golden Cockerel item. (Kirkus 17)

16. Iorana! A Tahitian Journal, by Robert Gibbings. With wood engravings by the author. Fiirst edition, 8vo, pp.[xii],157, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1932. One of 385 copies (this not numbered) printed on Van Gelder paper signed by the author/artist. Illustrated with 41 wood engravings. Cream endpapers printed in emerald green with tropical scene. Quarter-bound in green cloth, the boards covered with fawn paper printed with design in sepia of lengthwise sections of coconuts; spine lettered in gold. Original glassine and slipcase with printed label. A fine copy. £200 (Kirkus 2) This precedes the U.K trade edition of 1,500 copies.

17. Crotty Shinkwin. A Tale of the Strange Adventure that befell a Butcher of County Clare [&] The Beauty Spot: A Tale concerning the Chilterns. By A.E. Coppard. Engravings by Robert Gibbings. First edition, royal 8vo, pp.[vi], 67 [7], Printed and made by the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1932. Set in Golden Cockerel type. Number 378 of 500 copies printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. 8 wood engravings (including the rrunning cock) and decorated title-page by Robert Gibbings. Quarter-bound in blue morocco, the boards covered with cloth printed with a blue and green pattern designed by Tirzah Garwood, spine lettered in gilt, gold top. Spine rather rubbed. A good copy with a GCP compliments slip loosely inserted. £80 (Chanticleer 84, Kirkus 42)

18. Rummy, That Noble game Expounded in Prose, Poetry, Diagram and Engraving by A.E. Coppard and Robert Gibbings, with an Account of Certain Diversions into the Mountain Fastnesses of Cork and Kerry. Royal 8vo, 24cm, pp.[iv]+ 53[1] + colophon, Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1932. Text set in Caslon and printed in black and red. Number 35 of 250 (1,250) copies signed by the author and artist on Batchelor handmade paper and specially bound in quarter emerald morocco with decorative cloth sides, t.e.g., others uncut. Spine titled in gilt. Illustrated with 15 wood engravings and a decorated title-page by Robert Gibbings. Spine faintly faded. A very good to fine copy. £325 The book is dedicated 'To the finest hotel in the World, Cronin's of Gougane Barra.' (Chanticleer 86, Kirkus 43)

19. Rummy, That Noble game Expounded in Prose, Poetry, Diagram and Engraving by A.E. Coppard and Robert Gibbings, with an Account of Certain Diversions into the Mountain Fastnesses of Cork and Kerry. Royal 8vo, 24cm, pp.[iv]+ 53[1] + colophon, Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1932. Text set in Caslon and printed in black and red. One of 1,000 (1,250) standard copies bound in full green cloth.. Spine titled in black. Illustrated with 15 wood engravings and a decorated title- page by Robert Gibbings. Slight freckling to endpapers and a couple of chips to the dust-jacket. A very good bright copy. £60 (Chanticleer 86, Kirkus 43)

20. Lord Adrian. A Play in Three Acts, by Lord Dunsany. Engravings by Robert Gibbings. First edition, royal 8vo, pp.[viii],73[3], Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1933. Set in Golden Cockerel type. Number 172 of 325 copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper. 7 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Quarter red morocco with gilt spine titling, special cloth sides by Tirzah Garwood printed blue on green, t.e.g., others uncut. Some slight wear. A very good copy. £130 (Chanticleer 89, Kirkus 44)

21. Sun Bathing Review. Quarterly Review of the Sun Societies. Oct. Nov. Dec. 1934. Vol.2, No.7. Small 4to, 25cm, pp.[ii] 75-108, Published by The Sun Bathing Society, London, (1934). 16 black-and-white photographs, some full-page. Overlapping blue paper wrappers decorated with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. A near fine copy. £45 Contains articles on nudism and naturism by, inter alia, Dr Haydyn Brown and Alec Haig.

22. Mr Glasspoole and the Chinese Pirates, being the Narrative of Mr Richard Glasspoole of the Ship Marquis of Ely: Describing his captivity of eleven weeks and three days whilst held for ransom by the villainous Ladrones of the China Sea in the Year 1809: Together with extracts from the China Records and the Log of the Marquis of Ely: And some remarks on Chinese Pirates Ancient and Modern, by Owen Rutter; And four engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings. Medium 4to, 21cm, pp.[x] 57 [13], Printed at The Golden Cockerel Press, 10 Staple Inn, London, 1935. Set in Perpetua type. Number 113 of 315 copies on Millbourn hand-made paper. Quarter bound in black buckram, the boards covered with yellow cloth printed in black back and front with a pattern made up of the head of a pirate holding a knife in his mouth. Endpapers a little yellowed. Near fine. £170 (Chanticleer 104, Kirkus 50)

23. Le Morte Darthur. The Story of King Arthur & of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. Written by Sir Thomas Malory, first printed by William Caxton, now modernised, as to spelling and punctuation, by A.W. Pollard, illustrated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. 3 vols, 4to, 31cm, pp.xv[1], 221[3], pp.268[4], pp.272[4], Printed at The Golden Cockerel Press, London, for The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1936. Set in Monotype Perpetua and printed on Dickinson Mills paper. Number 1,328 of 1,500 sets signed by Robert Gibbings. Each page of text has a wood engraving made up from 63 blocks in a variety of combinations. Bound in royal blue liinen, the boards covered with white paper printed in blue with an all-over design of King Arthur's shield; spines lettered in gold. Cloth slipcase with printed spine label. A fine set. £300 (Macy 83, Kirkus 54)

24. A Book of Uncommon Prayer, by George Scott-Moncrieff. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. First edition, crown 8vo, 19cm, pp.[viiii] 39 [1], Methuen Publishers, London, 1937. 19 woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. The woodcut which forms the frontispiece is repeated on p.14 and that on p.8 is repeated on p.18. Others are repeated in part, the blocks having been cut up and used more than once. Binding covered with black paper, lettered in white on the front and spine. Ownership inscription, slight wear to spine ends. A very good copy. £45 (Kirkus 57) 25. Coming Down the Wye, by Robert Gibbings. With Engravings by the Author. First edition, 8vo, 23cm, pp.ix[1],189, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1942. Illustrated with 59 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings and 3 maps. Blue cloth, the front decorated in gold with a feather, spine lettered in gilt. Lacks dust-jacket . Some spotting to prelims. A very good copy. £10 (Kirkus 7)

26. Lovely is the Lee, by Robert Gibbings. With Engravings by the Author. First edition, 8vo, 22cm, pp.vi, 199 [3], London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1945. Illustrated with 64 wood engravings. Bound in yellow cloth, blocked in gold on the front, titled in gilt on the spine, Yellow pictorial dust-jacket printed in black. Light spotting to endpapers and dust-jacket. A very good copy. £90 This copy signed by the author upon the half-title. (Kirkus 8)

27. Over the Reefs, by Robert Gibbings. Special limited edition, 8vo, 22cm, pp.[vi], 240 [2], London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1948. Number 41 of 100 copies printed on Basingwerk Parchment, specially bound in full morocco and signed by the author. Illustrated with 84 wood engravings. Green endpapers (front and back alike) printed in white with a map. Full plum morocco, blocked in gold on the front, titled in gilt on the spine, all edges gilt. A fine copy. £250 (Kirkus 9) These special copies were sold for £5 5s. The trade edition was of 17,800 copies.

28. Sweet Thames Run Softly, by Robert Gibbings. Eleventh printing, 8vo, 21.5cm, pp.x, 229[1], London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1948. Illustrated with 50 wood engravings. Bound in bright green cloth blocked in gold with title-page illustration, spine titled in gilt. Green pictorial dust-jacket printed in black. Dust-jacket price- clipped, else a fine copy. £30 First published in 1940. (Kirkus 6)

29. The Midmost Waters, by John Fisher. With drawings by Robert Gibbings. First edition, 8vo, 21.5cm, pp.219[1], The Naldrett Press, London, 1952. 37 illustrations from drawings by Robert Gibbings. Bound in stone cloth, lettered in brown across the spine. Cream dust-jacket, printed in black and red, with a drawing of a Samoan woman's head by RG. Freckling to endpapers, a little creasing to dust-jacket. Very good copy£25 (Kirkus 64)

30. The Story of Bovril, by Richard Bennett. With wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Crown 4to, 25cm, pp.34 [2], Produced for Bovril Limited by Newman Neame Limited and printed by John Roberts Press, 1953. Set in Perpetua. Illustrated with 19 wood engravings and 8 reproductions of Bovril advertisements. Bound in green cloth, blocked in gold on the front with the outline of a bull, spine lettered in gilt. Green dust-jacket printed in black and white. A fine copy. £50 (Kirkus 65)

31. Trumpets from Montparnasse. By Robert Gibbings. Illustrated with eight colour plates and forty wood engravings by the author. First edition, 8vo, 23cm, pp.[vi], 201 [1], frontispiece + seven other plates, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1955. 8 inserted colour plates from oil paintings, 41 wood engravings and 2 diagrams by Robert Gibbings. Bound in bright blue cloth; blocked iin gold on front with illustration as on title-page; title gilt on spine. Pale blue pictorial dust-jacket, just a little chipped. Very good to fine copy. £20 (Kirkus 13)

32. An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti. From the Journal of George Robertson, Master of H.M.S. Dolphin. Edited, with an Introduction by Oliver Warner. With Wood Engravings by Robert Gibbings. First edition, 8vo, pp.127[1], 21.5cm, Printed for Members Only, The Folio Society, 1955. Illustrated with 11 wood engravings. Quarter-bound in bright green cloth, the boards covered with yellow paper, patterned in red, lettered in gold up the spine, top edge tinted. A near fine copy. £10 (Kirkus 66)

33. The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with some recollections by the artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston. First edition, demy 4to, 28cm, pp.xliv,355, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1959. Colour frontispiece on Japanese paper; 9 pages of half-tones and over 1000 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Full black buckram with RG's device blocked in gold on the front and gilt spine titling, PVC dust-jacket printed silk screen in red. Neat ownership signature. A fine copy with prospectus. £125 As planned in 1953, this volume was to be Robert Gibbings's choice of the blocks which he liked best up to the total of five or six hundred. But when he died he had done little more than write the autobiographical fragment which is printed in the book. The editor, unable to guess at the engraver's choice, picked out a thousand blocks. (Kirkus 20)

34. Robert Gibbings: a bibliography, by A. Mary Kirkus; edited by Patience Empson and John Harris, with a chronological check list and notes on the Golden Cockerel Press. First edition, 8vo, xiii, 170 p., [1] leaf of plates, ill., port, 23 cm, London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1962. One of 975 copies; about 17 wood-engravings reproduced from books and other illustrations; green-blue cloth, titled and stamped in gilt, a fine copy in like dust-jacket. £35

35. Engraved by Robert Gibbings. [Ten wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, here reproduced by line-blocks.] A Portrait of Lady Hester from Alexander William Kinglake's 'Eothen'. Narrow 8vo, 25cm, pp.32 + extra suite, Libanus Press, Marlborough, 1987. Set in Bodoni and printed on BFK Rives paper. One of 50 (300) special copies bound in quarter leather with an extra set of prints on Japanese paper in a separate folder. Black paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy. £200

36. Gibbings & Grey [of Fallodon] and The Charm of Birds. Twenty wood engravings printed from the original blocks with accompanying text. Edited and Introduced by Thomas Landon. 8vo, 20cm, pp.[76], Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, printed at Barbarian Press, Mission, British Columbia, 1998. One of 300 numbered copies printed in Bembo and Fairbanks Italic on Zerkall paper with Fry's Ornamented for display. Title-page in black and blue-grey. Quarter blue cloth with pictorial Ingres paper sides, matching endpapers and printed spine label. A fine copy. £125 These wood engravings for Grey of Fallodon's 'The Charm of Birds' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1927) have never before been printed from the blocks.

37. A Tale of Two Benches [by Robert Gibbings, Claire Bolton and Martin Andrews]. With wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings and Simon Brett. Foolscap 4to, 24pp, The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2000. Text set in Perpetua. Number 25 of 120 (240) copies on Zerkall mould-made paper, quarter- bound in cloth with Ingres paper-covered boards. A fine copy. £45 A book inspired by 'Till I End My Song'.

38. The Life and Work of Robert Gibbings, by Martin J. Andrews. First edition, 4to, 28cm, pp.xii,426, plates, Bicester: Primrose Hill Press, 2003. 396 illustrations, plus inserted colour plates. Blue cloth, spine titled in silver. Fine in like dust- jacket. £120