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The Life and Works of Robert Gibbings. ANDREWS (Martin J.).

£4,000.00

BOUND BY STUART BROCKMAN

400 black and white illustrations and eight colour plates.

First Edition. Folio. [288 x 230 x 33 mm]. xii, 426 pp. Bound by Stuart Brockman c.2015 in boards covered with a sheet of paper with a painted watercolour of acquatic and exotic island scenes overlayed with a transparent skin of vellum, tooled and lettered in gilt, black goatskin turn-ins, grey endleaves, top edge gilt. Contained in a black cloth drop-over box, lined with velvet, lettered in gilt on a black goatskin label. [ebc8160]

Bicester: Primrose Hill Press, 2003.

A delightful and vibrant binding taking its inspirations from Gibbings's own paintings and wood-engravings of tropical fish and illustrations from The Voyage of HMS Beagle. The watercolour on paper encasing the binding is protected by the vellum, in a similar manner to Cedric Chivers's "vellucent bindings" first produced in Bath in 1903. In 1785 James Edwards of Halifax had patented an alternative method of painting on the underside of transparent vellum and then backing it with plain paper.

Stuart Brockman was born in Cambridge in 1972 and studied Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, London. He joined his father's bindery in 1995 and was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2004. He is currently the President of D.B. and I rate him most highly.

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BOUND BY STUART BROCKMAN

400 black and white illustrations and eight colour plates.

First Edition. Folio. [288 x 230 x 33 mm]. xii, 426 pp. Bound by Stuart Brockman c.2015 in boards covered with a sheet of paper with a painted watercolour of acquatic and exotic island scenes overlayed with a transparent skin of vellum, tooled and lettered in gilt, black goatskin turn-ins, grey endleaves, top edge gilt. Contained in a black cloth drop-over box, lined with velvet, lettered in gilt on a black goatskin label. [ebc8160]

Bicester: Primrose Hill Press, 2003.

A delightful and vibrant binding taking its inspirations from Gibbings's own paintings and wood-engravings of tropical fish and illustrations from The Voyage of HMS Beagle. The watercolour on paper encasing the binding is protected by the vellum, in a similar manner to Cedric Chivers's "vellucent bindings" first produced in Bath in 1903. In 1785 James Edwards of Halifax had patented an alternative method of painting on the underside of transparent vellum and then backing it with plain paper.

Stuart Brockman was born in Cambridge in 1972 and studied Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, London. He joined his father's bindery in 1995 and was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2004. He is currently the President of D.B. and I rate him most highly.

BOUND BY STUART BROCKMAN

400 black and white illustrations and eight colour plates.

First Edition. Folio. [288 x 230 x 33 mm]. xii, 426 pp. Bound by Stuart Brockman c.2015 in boards covered with a sheet of paper with a painted watercolour of acquatic and exotic island scenes overlayed with a transparent skin of vellum, tooled and lettered in gilt, black goatskin turn-ins, grey endleaves, top edge gilt. Contained in a black cloth drop-over box, lined with velvet, lettered in gilt on a black goatskin label. [ebc8160]

Bicester: Primrose Hill Press, 2003.

A delightful and vibrant binding taking its inspirations from Gibbings's own paintings and wood-engravings of tropical fish and illustrations from The Voyage of HMS Beagle. The watercolour on paper encasing the binding is protected by the vellum, in a similar manner to Cedric Chivers's "vellucent bindings" first produced in Bath in 1903. In 1785 James Edwards of Halifax had patented an alternative method of painting on the underside of transparent vellum and then backing it with plain paper.

Stuart Brockman was born in Cambridge in 1972 and studied Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, London. He joined his father's bindery in 1995 and was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2004. He is currently the President of D.B. and I rate him most highly.