Robert Gibbings

Standard Name: Gibbings, Robert

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
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.
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Timeline

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

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

Texts

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