Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in quarter sharkskin over buckram by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Some wear to the spine ends and some soiling to the cloth. One of 500 numbered copies and nice clean contents. Now protected with a glassine cover.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto, 12 x 7 1/2 inches (305 x 190mm); pp. 104; with nineteen wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings (1889-1958); copy 178 of 345 copies printed Batchelor hand-made paper, special Cockerel watermark; red ink on title page, red and blue ink for incidental initials by Eric Gill and David Jones's colophon device; 1/4 brown sharkskin and green cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London; gilt titling; top edge gilt, others uncut; slight staining to head of spine, clean, fresh, and bright inside and out. [Chanticleer 62; Ransom p. 298, no. 60]. An elegant and beautifullly proportioned and illustrated version of John Keat's (1795-1825) famous poems, which constitute the final volume Keats lived to see, published in July 1820. From the Oxford text edited by H. Buxton Forman. Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was and Irish wood engraver and sculptor, know for his work on natural history and travel books. He was one of the foundeing members of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920,and was a major influence in the revival of wood engraving in the twentieth century. He became the owner of The Golden Cockerel Press in 1924 and printed, among 71 other works, a very successful edition of The Canterbury Tales. "Golden Cockerel books are amongst the most popular and desirable private press items." (Ransom p. 106).
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1358.68 + shipping
Description: First edition. Folio. Number 199 of 500 copies. Original quarter sharkskin over green cloth by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lettered gilt to spine. A fine copy. Woodcut bookplate of Michael A.E. Franklin to front pastedown. Printed by Robert Gibbings in black, red and blue and illustrated by him with decorative initials, head and tailpieces.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A limited edition collection of Keats' poetry (#95 of 500) bound by Gabrielle Fox in full alum-tawed goatskin with red and green goatskin onlays, raised and recessed images, and gold tooling. Endpaper illustrations created with layers of Tengujo tissue. Matching Box in red buckram. Letterpress printed on handmade paper and illustrated with plate engravings by Robert Gibbings. Design influenced by the paper, typography and illustrations as much as by the poems. Selected by and exhibited at North Bennet Street School with Heroic Works, part of the Designer Bookbinders International Competition in conjunction with the Bodleian Libraries.
Seller: Trouve Books, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.