Male : Writer, illustrator and wood engraver. Bought the Golden Cockerel Press from Harold Taylor in 1924, but was forced to sell it (to Christopher Sandford et al) during the depressed 1930's, in 1933. Shot in the throat at Gallipoli he was inavlided out as a Captain

Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Co Cork

Date of Birth : 1889 Date of Death : 1958 Age : 69

Other Work : Lecturer in Book Production, Reading University 1936-42

Education : University College Cork & Slade School of Fine Art, and Central School of Arts & Crafts

VOLUMES OF ENGRAVINGS WITH LITTLE OR NO TEXT
Twelve Wood Engravings (1921 PP, Baynard Press, London) - 125 signed
The Seventh Man : A True Cannibal Tale of the South Sea Islands (1930 Golden Cockerel Press) - 500
Fourteen Wood Engravings : from Drawings Made on Orient Line Cruises (1932 Orient Line)
A True Tale of Love in Tonga (1935 Faber)
The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings (1949 Art and Technics)
The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings (1959 Dent) - Edited by Patience Empson

BOOKS ILLUS BY GIBBINGS
Old London Bridge (1921 Findlater, Mackie, Todd & Co)
Miscellaneous Writings of Henry the Eighth (1925 Golden Cockerel Press)
Samson and Delilah (1925 Golden Cockerel Press) - 325
Offered in 1991 for £250
Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex (1925 Golden Cockerel Press)
The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenina (1927 Golden Cockerel Press)
The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch (1934 Golden Cockerel Press)
The Journals of James Morrison, Boatswain's Mate of the Bounty (1935 Golden Cockerel Press)
Mr Glasspole And the Chinese Pirates (1935 Golden Cockerel Press)
Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex (1935 Golden Cockerel Press) - 275
Othello (1939 Ltd Eds Club)
An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti (1955 Folio Society)
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Richard BENNETT : The Story of Bovril (1953 Bovril Ltd, London)
BRANTOME : The Lives of Gallant Ladies (1924 Golden Cockerel Press) - 2 vols
Thomas BURKE : the Book of the Inn (1927 Constable)
Samuel BUTLER : Erewhon (1923 Cape)
Henry CAREY : Songs and Poems (1924 Golden Cockerel Press)
A E COPPARD : Pelagea & Other Poems (1926 Golden Cockerel Press) - 425
Count Stefan (1928 Golden Cockerel Press) - 600
The Man from Kilsheelan (1930 William Jackson Books)
The Hundredth Story (1931 Golden Cockerel Press) - 1000
Crotty Shinkwin (1932 Golden Cockerel Press) - 500
Rummy (1932 Golden Cockerel Press)
Charles DARWIN : Journal of Researchers (1956 Ltd Eds Club)
Eleanor DOORLY : The Insect Man (1936 W Heffer)
The Microbe Man (1938 Heffer)
The Radium Woman (1939 Heinemann)
J H DRIBERG : Initiation (1932 Golden Cockerel Press)
Lord DUNSANY : Lord Adrian (1933 Golden Cockerel Press)
J H FABRE : Marvels of the Insect World (1938 Appleton Century)
Grey of FALLODON : Fallodon Papers (1926 Constable)
The Charm of Birds (1927 Hodder & Stoughton)
John FISHER : The Midmost Waters (1952 The Nalchett Press)
Gustave FLAUBERT : Salambo (1931 Golden Cockerel Press)
Esther FORBES : A Mirror for Witches (1928 Heinemann)
Godfrey HARRISON : A Bird Diary (1936 Dent)
John KEATS : Lamia, Isabella & Other Poems (1928 Golden Cockerel Press)
MALORY : Le Morte D'Arthur (1936 Ltd Eds Club)
E Powys MATHERS : Red Wise (1926 Golden Cockerel Press)
A Circle of the Season (1929 Golden Cockerel Press)
Andre MAUROIS : The Art of Living (1940 English Universities Press)
H E PALMER : The Roving Angler (1933 Dent)

Llewellyn POWYS : Glory of Life (1934 Golden Cockerel Press)
The Twelve Months (1936 Bodley Head)
Alexander PUSHKIN : The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (1936 Golden Cockerel Press)
George SCOTT-MONCRIEFF : A Book of Uncommon Prayer (1937 Methuen)
Jonathan SWIFT : Miscellaneous Poems (1928 Golden Cockerel Press)
H D THOREAU : Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (1924 Golden Cockerel Press)
(Trans) Helen WADDELL : Beasts and Saints (1934 Chiswick Press for Dent)

WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY
The Zoo (1930-1 nd Baynards Press) - advertising pamphlet written with Moira Gibbings
The Seventh Man (1930 Golden Cockerel Press)
Iorana : A Tahitian Journal (nd. 1932 Duckworth) (1932 Houghton Mifflin - 385 signed)
Fourteen Engravings on Wood (1932 Golden Cockerel Press for Orient Lines)
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex (1935 Golden Cockerel Press)
A True Tale of Love in Tonga (1935 Golden Cockerel Press)
Coconut Island (1936 Faber)
John Graham, Convict (1937 Faber)
Blue Angels & Whales (1938 Penguin)
Blue Angels & Whales (1946 Dent)
Sweet Thames Run Softly (1940 Dent) - 2500 copies
Coming Down the Wye (1942 Dent)
Lovely is the Lee (1945 Dent)
Over the Reefs and Far Away (1948 Dent)
Sweet Cork of Thee (1951 Dent)
Coming Down the Seine (1953 Dent) - 75 signed
The Perfect Wife (1955 Dolmen Press) - pamphlet 240 copies
Trumpets from Montparnasse (1955 Dent 21/-)
Till I End My Song (1957 Dent 25/-)

READING
Thomas Balston : The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings (1949 Art & Technics)
(Ed) Patience Empson : The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings (1959 Dent)
Agnes Mary Kirkus : Robert Gibbings - A Bibliography (1962 Dent) - 975