Engravings by the author. 256 pages, text illustrations, cloth, very good. From the Oxford Dictionary of Art: Gibbings, Robert (1889 - 1958) British wood-engraver, book designer, and travel writer. He founded the Society of Wood Engravers in 1919 and ran the Golden Cockerell Press from 1924 to 1933, illustrating many of its books himself and also employing engravers such as Eric Gill and Eric Ravilious. He went through a nudist phase at about this time and sometimes typeset in the nude. Gibbings’s books typically combine topographical impressions, personal anecdote, and observations of nature, illustrated with his own engravings; they include two on the River Thames-Sweet Thames Run Softly (1940) and Till I End My Song (1957).

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