Fourteen Wood Engravings.

Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1932

14 beautiful woodcuts by the master of the modern wood engraving revival in Britain.

Description: Original yellow printed wrappers, sewn as issued, untrimmed. Folio: 34 × 24 cm. Title with woodcut vignette, small woodcut on following text page, 14 full-page woodcuts (recto only) with printed captions, printed colophon on last leaf verso. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper.

Inserted: The Orient Line compliments slip laid-in.

Ref.: Cave/Manson 86A

Condition: Covers slightly soiled, torn at spine fold (approx. 7 cm). Otherwise a near fine copy.

Notes: Gibbings produced this woodcuts for the Orient Line Shipping Company as “quids for their quo of hospitality” (Cave/Manson). Based on drawings he had made on his cruise around the Caribbean islands, and on his previous voyage to Tahiti. One of only a few commissions for other publishers that Gibbings undertook.