£50
Robert Gibbings (1889 - 1958) - An Open Book, unfinished proof state, intended as the tail piece for the chapter 'The Pleasure of Reading', from Grey's 'Fallodon Papers', London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926, wood engraving, right-hand margin cut, the others uncut, 7cm x 13cm, inscribed in pencil, mounted.
Provenance: 1) Martin Andrews (1950 - ), printing historian and author of a biography on the life and works of Gibbings, inscribed to verso "[...] given to him by Robert Gibbings' widow". 2) Dr John Lambert Wilson (1943 - 2022), inscribed "Given me by Martin Andrews".
The surfaces of both the image and mount a trifle toned and soiled.
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