Gibbings, Robert

Gibbings, R. Samson and Delilah, 1925, number 40 of 325 copies, dust jacket [Chanticleer 30; Cave and Manson pp. 47-48]--Bourdeille, P. de. The Lives of Gallant Ladies, 1924, 2 volumes, limited to 718 copies, of which this is one of 75 on Dutch hand-made paper signed by the translator and artist, with limitation slips signed by the artist, printed in black and green [Chanticleer 18]--Macnamara, F. ed. Miscellaneous Writings of Henry VIII, 1924, number 201 of 365 copies, printed in red and black [Chanticleer 22]--Powys Mathers, E. Red Wise, 1926, number 55 of 500 copies, printed in red and black, dust jacket, [Chanticleer 34]; A Circle of the Seasons, 1929, number 489 of 500 copies [Chanticleer 64]--Coppard, A.E. Pelagea & Other Poems, 1926, number 394 of 425 copies, dust jacket [Chanticleer 43]; Count Stefan, 1928, number 467 of 850 copies, [Chanticleer 57]--Swift, J. Miscellaneous Poems, 1928, number 166 of 375 copies, printed in red and black, dust jacket [Chanticleer 58]--Keats, J. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes & Other Poems, 1928, number 234 of 500 copies, printed in red and black [Chanticleer 62]--various sizes, original bindings, occasional slight fading or discolouration to spines (10)

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Samson and Delilah was the first of four Bible stories issued by the Press and the first of a successful series of "quarto picture books". Gibbings chose to set the type accompanying his powerful wood-engravings as unjustified, subsequently earning him praise from modernist typographers.