Robert Gibbings. ‘The Wood Engravings of ROBERT GIBBINGS’ Wi...

Hammer

£90

Robert Gibbings. ‘The Wood Engravings of ROBERT GIBBINGS’ With some recollections by the artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston. A First Edition. Published in 1999 by J. M. Dent, London. Colour frontispiece, nine pages of half-tones and over 1000 engravings. First Edition. 4to. [284 x 222 x 36 mm]. 395 pp. Bound in the publisher's black cloth, gilt block on front cover, the spine lettered in gilt. In the original transparent wrapper printed in red. A very good copy, with the prospectus laid in; together with ‘RIGBY GRAHAM IN PRINT: A Comprehensive Bibliography, FIRST EDITION limited to 250 copies, folio, pp.144 + addenda leaf; illustrations in line & colour throughout; new in burgundy cloth & pictorial dust-wrapper. 276 (+3)pp books & pamphlets illustrated by Rigby Graham over a sixty year period and over 100 others in which his work appears; a beautifully produced & thoroughly researched work. Leicestershire Private Press Bibliography Illustration; plus ‘RIGBY GRAHAM A Retrospective Celebration’, by Edel Brucciani. Published by The Leicester City Museums Service in association with the Goldmark Gallery In 1999. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Card covers. 48 pages. Some ephemera loosely laid-in. (3)