Robert Gibbings

Standard Name: Gibbings, Robert

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Nell Dunn
His parents, the distinguished wood-engraver Lettice Sandford and poet Christopher Sandford , took over the Golden Cockerel Press from Robert Gibbings during the great age of fine-press printing. Jeremy Sandford became well-known as a playwright...
Publishing Helen Waddell
HW published Beasts and Saints, with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings , a book of early tales excerpted and translated from saints' lives in Latin.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Timeline

1920: The Golden Cockerel Press was founded at...

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1920

The Golden Cockerel Press was founded at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, by Harold Midgely Taylor and Gay Taylor .
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
133
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
191
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
174-5
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
124-5
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
321

1920: The Society of Wood Engravers was formed...

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1920

The Society of Wood Engravers was formed.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
174
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
12: 640

Texts

Gibbings, Robert. Beasts and Saints. Translator Waddell, Helen, Constable, 1934.