Gibbings Robert Ed (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. H/B no Slipcase, 127 pages, condition is Very Good. An Account of The Discovery of Tahiti from the journal of George Robertson Master of H.M.S. Dolphin. Robert Gibbings (illustrator).

Folio Society reproduction. 8vo hardcover (VG) lacking slipcase; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. VG: in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover toned. Pages lightly browned. Inner hinges cracked. 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). 278pp. A series designed so as to display wood-engraving. Only ten were issued, all in May 1938. Robert Gibbings was the Series Editor. First Penguin Illustrated Classics Edition. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. spine ends rubbed, no slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Robert Gibbings (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8-3/4" x 11-1/4", xliv + 305pp. Sewn binding in black cloth boards. Wrapped in vinyl dust jacket with title block stamped onto it in red; there is a closed 4" tear from the top of the spine hinge on the back cover, and some rubbing / shelf wear to the jacket. A copy of the publisher's prospectus for this volume is laid in. Binding is square and tight, pages are clean and bright and unmarked. NOTE that this is a larger volume, and there may be additional shipping charges on orders outside North America. Gibbings, Robert (illustrator). …

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Photo-lithographic printing of this account of the discovery of Tahiti from the first Folio edition of 1955, an excellent copy. Reprint in photo-lithograph of the first Folio Society edition of 1955. An excellent copy. Containing an account of George Robertson's first arrival in Tahiti in 1767 aboard the H.M.S. Dolphin. A vivid narrative of Robertson's experiences, with piquant details from the journals of other members of his ship's company.Illustrated with engravings by Robert Gibbings. Complete with clipped dust wrapper, clear with printed flyleaves.Featuring Peter Bridger's bookplate to front pastedown. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with only minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper price clipped and excellent with minor shelf wear only. Peter Bridger's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Featuring engravings by Robert Gibbings. Near Fine. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated bibliographical work on the art of Robert Gibbings, limited to nine hundred and fifty copies. First edition. Limited to nine hundred and fifty copies. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and seventeen in-text engravings. Collated complete. One of the leaders of the revival of wood-engraving in the 1920s, Irish artist and author Robert Gibbings was director of the Golden Cockerel Press for nine years. The first part of the volume is a descriptive bibliography of the sixty-seven books illustrated by Gibbings; and the second lists his work as artist, writer, printer and publisher in chronological order, and also records some publications containing references to his work. There is a note on the printing methods of the Golden Cockerel Press, contributed by A. C. Cooper who was pressman throughout the period of Gibbings' direction. Written by A. Mary Kirkus, edited by Gibbings's partner Patience Empson, and John Harris. In the original quarter cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small mark to the panels. Light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). book.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. 127pp. Green spine, slightly faded, with decorative paper laid on. Owner's name in pencil on free fep. Robert Gibbings (illustrator).

Empson, Patience (ed.). The Wood Engravings of ROBERT GIBBINGS with some recollections by the artist. xliv pp. text, incl. intro. by Thomas Balston, & hundreds of reproductions, 4to, cloth. London, Dent, 1959.

Condition: Near Fine. dj. First edition, first printing. THE COMPREHENSIVE GIBBINGS Robert Gibbings led the wood engraving revival in Britain in the early twentieth century, increasing renown for the art form through his own strongly lined work, as well as serving as a founding member of the Society of Wood Engravers and owner of The Golden Cockerel Press. Published the year after Robert Gibbing's death, Empson's collection offers the most definitive gathering of Gibbing's wood engravings, featuring over 1000 prints with numerous engravings published for the first time. Sunned top edge, gently browned endpapers, still near fine, in near fine acetate jacket with pressed tips and corners. Publisher's full black cloth stamped in gilt, in publisher's acetate jacket, stamped in red, top edge stained green. Numerous black-and-white and color wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. pp. xliv, 355, illustrated. Edited by Patience Empson, with an introduction by Thomas Balston. Frontispiece on Japanese paper. Contains 1,000 illustrations of Gibbings' wood engravings. The autobiographical fragment, "Some Recollections," was left incomplete at the time of Gibbings' death. Bound in black buckram with gilt lettering and a decorated spine, in the original plastic dust jacket silk-screened in red. Book prospectus loosely inserted. Massey College bookplate to pastedown; no internal markings, clean and bright throughout. An exceptionally fine copy. (Kirkus 20).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. 355. frontis & numerous illus. throughout (some full-page). original cloth (back cover bit rubbed). First Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A first edition of this densely illustrated title, in the original plastic dust wrapper. A first edition, with the original protective plastic dust wrapper, which is printed with title text. Featuring the work of Irish artist and author, who wrote titles on travel and natural history. Slotted into the work are two prints of Peter Reddick's Untitled Landscape, between protective card - both signed by Reddick, and one dated 1980. Th influential wood engraver Peter Reddick is most known for his illustrations in the work of Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope. He was a Gregynog arts fellow between 1979 and 1980. Also slotted inside is an additional print, small and unidentified, and a 1958 article on the death of Robert Gibbings. Featuring a colour frontispiece and one-hundred-and-seventy-fourdouble-sided pages of monochrome illustration. Collated, complete Bound in original black cloth. In original transparent plastic dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Moderate damp stains to boards and spine. Dust wrapper smart. Mild shelf wear. The odd mark to dust wrapper covers. Internally, firmly bound. Moderate strain between pp.350-351. Very mild cockling. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Very Good. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Very Good. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1983. Reprint. Two small quarto volumes; bound in publisher's full dark red leather decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; moiré endpapers; silk ribbon. Color frontis to each volume; black and white interior artwork throughout. Light wear to top edge of volume I with brief exposure; volume II corners bumped; bindings sound; pages unmarked; no bookplates; a Very Good set.…

London, 1959. XLIV,355 pp. B/w plts. Hardcover.