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Robert Gibbings

23 March 1889 - 19 January 1958

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Gibbings was an Irish artist and author and, along with Noel Rooke, was one of the founding members of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920. As a major influence in the revival of wood-engraving in the 20th century, Gibbings received a commission for The Lives of Gallant Ladies in 1923 for the Golden Cockerel Press, which he bought the following year. As the owner of the press, he commissioned work from fellow wood-engravers such as John Nash, David Jones, John Farleigh and most notably Eric Gill.

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Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), accord...

Hammer: £5,000

Gibbings (Robert) Twelve Wood Engravings, number 39 of 125 copies signed by ...

Hammer: £1,400

Golden Cockerel Press.- Lucian of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian the Samo...

Hammer: £1,200

Bostock (James) Spring Pastoral, wood-engraving, signed in pencil and inscri...

Hammer: £1,200

Gibbings (Robert).- Lucian of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian, tran...

Hammer: £1,100

Golden Cockerel Press.- Bligh (William) The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch, number 111 of 3...

Hammer: £950

Golden Cockerel Press.- Lucian of Samosata. The True History of Lucian the S...

Hammer: £850

Golden Cockerel Press.- Lucian, of Samosata. The True History ...

Hammer: £850

Gibbings (Robert) Twelve Wood Engravings, number 37 of 125 copies signed by ...

Hammer: £850

Gibbings (Robert).- Powys (Llewelyn) Glory of Life, number 261 of 277 copies...

Hammer: £750

Golden Cockerel Press.- Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.Agnes &a...

Hammer: £750

Limited Editions Club.- Shakespeare (William) The Comedies, Histories & ...

Hammer: £700

Gibbings (Robert).- Lucian of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian the Samo...

Hammer: £700

Golden Cockerel Press.- Lascaris (Evadne) The Golden Bed of Kydno, translate...

Hammer: £700

Golden Cockerel Press.- Lucian, of Samosata. The True History ...

Hammer: £650

Golden Cockerel Press.- Dickens (Charles) The Cricket on the Hearth, limited...

Hammer: £650

Gibbings (Robert).- Lucian of Samosata.The True Historie of Lucian the Samos...

Hammer: £600

Golden Cockerel Press.- Bonaparte (Napoleon) Supper at Beaucaire, translated...

Hammer: £600

Golden Cockerel Press.- Powys (Llewelyn) GloryofLife, number 51 of 277 copie...

Hammer: £600

Gibbings (Robert).- Samson and Delilah, number 237 of 325 copies, endpapers ...

Hammer: £600

Golden Cockerel Press.- Lucian, of Samosata. The True History ...

Hammer: £550

Golden Cockerel Press.- Bonaparte (Napoleon) Supper at Beaucaire, translated by ...

Hammer: £550

Golden Hind (The): A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature, 2 vol. containing No...

Hammer: £480

Golden Cockerel Press.- Nash (John).- Bates (H.E.) Flowers and Faces, one of...

Hammer: £460

Alembic Press.- Lawson-Hall (Claire) Oxford Doors, number 29 of only 40 copi...

Hammer: £420

Golden Cockerel Press.- Powys (Llewelyn) Glory of Life, number 166 of 277 co...

Hammer: £400

Golden Cockerel Press.- Rutter (Owen) We Happy Few: An Anthology, number 60 ...

Hammer: £400

Private Presses.- A collection of catalogues, prospectuses, exhibition pamph...

Hammer: £400

Golden Cockerel Press.- Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.Agnes &a...

Hammer: £380

Golden Cockerel Press.- Powys (Llewelyn) Glory of Life, number 20 of 277 cop...

Hammer: £380

Gibbings (Robert) Fourteen Wood Engravings, 16 wood-engraved illustrations, ...

Hammer: £380

Gentleman (David) The Wood Engravings..., number 111 of 350 copies signed by...

Hammer: £360

Golden Cockerel Press.- Morrison (James) The Journal...Boatswain's Mate ...

Hammer: £350

Golden Cockerel Press.- Powys (Llewelyn) Glory of Life, number 213 of 277 co...

Hammer: £350

Hamel (Christopher de) Syon Abbey, one of 200 copies, illustrations, original morocco-back...

Hammer: £340

Golden Cockerel Press.- Chase (Owen) and others. Narratives of the Wreck of ...

Hammer: £320

Society of Wood Engravers. Catalogue of the Second Annual Exhibition..., For...

Hammer: £320

Golden Cockerel Press.- Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.Agnes &a...

Hammer: £300

Golden Cockerel Press.- Gibbings (Robert) Fourteen Wood Engravings from Draw...

Hammer: £300

Golden Cockerel Press.- Dreyfus (John) A Typographical Masterpiece: An accou...

Hammer: £300

Golden Cockerel Press.- Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.Agnes &a...

Hammer: £280

Golden Cockerel Press.- La Rochefoucauld (Francois, Duc de) Moral Maxims, 'File Copy' for ...

Hammer: £280

Golden Cockerel Press.- Mathers (E.Powys) Red Wise, number 193 of 500 copies...

Hammer: £260

Gibbings (Robert) Iorana! A Tahitian Journal, first edition, bound in black ...

Hammer: £260

Libanus Press.- Gibbings (Robert) Engraved...A Portrait of Lady Hester, from...

Hammer: £260

Golden Cockerel Press.- Coppard (A. E.) The Hundredth Story, illustrations b...

Hammer: £240

Gill (Eric) The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ, number 2487 of 2740 n...

Hammer: £240

Gibbings (Robert) Fourteen Wood Engravings, 16 wood-engraved illustrations, ...

Hammer: £240

Gill (Eric).- Four Gospels (The) of the Lord Jesus Christ..., one of 600 fa...

Hammer: £240

Golden Cockerel Press.- Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Hymn to Proserpine, one...

Hammer: £240

Golden Cockerel Press.- Gibbings (Robert).- Samson and Delilah, one of 325 c...

Hammer: £240

Blackwood (Algernon) & Wilfred Wilson. The Wolves of God and Other Fey S...

Hammer: £240

Golden Cockerel Press.- Gibbings (Robert).- Swift (Jonathan) Miscellaneous P...

Hammer: £220

Golden Cockerel Press.- Gill (Eric).- Clay (Enid) Sonnets and Verses, number...

Hammer: £220

Gibbings (Robert).- Malory (Sir Thomas) Le Morte Darthur, 3 vo...

Hammer: £220

Gibbings (Robert).- Samson and Delilah from the Book of Judges, number 258 o...

Hammer: £220

Gibbings (Robert) Sweet Thames Run Softly, 1940; Coming Down the Wye, 1942; ...

Hammer: £200

Lawrence (John) The Four Seasons: Four Wood Engravings made in 1982 to illus...

Hammer: £200

Breton (Nicholas) The Twelve Moneths and Christmas Day, limited edition, des...

Hammer: £200

Gill (Eric) Id quod visum placet: A practical test of the beautiful, number ...

Hammer: £200

Dodgson (Campbell) Contemporary English Woodcuts, number 435 of 550 copies, ...

Hammer: £200

Gibbings (Robert).- Morrison (James) The Journal...Boatswain's Mate of T...

Hammer: £180

Sheridan (Richard Brinsley) The School for Scandal, limited edition signed b...

Hammer: £180

Golden Cockerel Press.- Flaubert (Gustave) Salambo, translated by E. Powys M...

Hammer: £170

Empson (Patience, editor) The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbin...

Hammer: £160

Golden Cockerel Press.- Coppard (A. E.) The Hundredth Story [2 copies], one of 1000 copies...

Hammer: £160

Powys (Llewelyn) The Twelve Months, number 28 of 100 signed by Powys and Gib...

Hammer: £150

Gibbings (Robert) Fourteen Wood Engravings...from Drawings made on Orient Li...

Hammer: £150

Gibbings (Robert).- Powys (Llewelyn) The Twelve Months, number 20 of 100 spe...

Hammer: £140

Empson (Patience) The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, first edition, ill...

Hammer: £120

Golden Cockerel Press.- Ovidius Naso (Publius) The Amores, number 288 of 350...

Hammer: £120

Bibliography.- Chesterton (G.K.) Gloria in Profundis, Ariel Poem No.5, one o...

Hammer: £110

Ravilious (Eric) Golden Cockerel Press 1931 (The), prospectus with 3 large w...

Hammer: £75

Gibbings (Robert) The 7th Man: A True Cannibal Tale of the South Sea Islands...

Hammer: £75

Private Press.- Carey (Henry) Songs & Poems, number 41 of 380 copies, ti...

Hammer: £70

Tahiti.- Gibbings (Robert) Iorana! A Tahitian Journal, wood-engraved illustr...

Hammer: £65

Golden Cockerel Press.- Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex..., ...

Hammer: £60

Omar Khayyám. Rubáiyát, 20 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, c...

Hammer: £55

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