Some title pages and illustrations for books by Stephen Gooden
This page shows my small collection of Stephen Gooden's designs engraved on copper for books that he illustrated, published by the Nonesuch Press, George Harrap, and William Heinemann.
I99: Cock and Key
Date: 1932
Plate size: 73 x 83 mm
Campbell Dodgson (1944): 99
States: three states
Proofs: 15
Notes: This is the Headpiece to Chapter 3 of the book Perronik the Fool by George Moore (Harrap, 1933).
I104: Title page of Aesop's Fables
Date: 1935
Plate size: 251 x 191 mm
Campbell Dodgson (1944): 104
States: two
Proofs: 525 copies of the book with 8 printed on vellum; plus separate edition of 12 sets of proofs
Notes: This is a signed proof of a copper plate engraving of the title page of Aesop's Fablespublished by George G. Harrap, most of which were printed on large paper and sold in a separate edition of all 12 proofs. This seems to be additional to those sets as it is printed on a small sheet of paper, perhaps as a trial proof. I have the
I68: Title page of Volume 1 of The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
Date: 1931
Plate size: 218 x 130 mm
Campbell Dodgson (1944): 68
States: two states
Proofs: unknown
Notes: This is a signed proof of a copper plate engraving of the title page of volume 1 of The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, translated by Edward Marsh and published in an edition of 525 copies by William Heinemann in the UK and by Random House in the USA. This is a proof printed on laid paper, extra to the published book. It is illustrated at 60% of the size of the other engravings shown here.
I120: The Three Kings
Date: 1939
Plate size: 113 x 89 mm
Campbell Dodgson (1944): 120
States: only state
Proofs: unknown
Notes: This is an engraved frontispiece to The Gift of the Magi, a short story by O.Henry published by Harrap (1940) in a limited edition of 105 copies of which 100 were for sale. I have the copy of the book that Gooden gave to his mother at Christmas, 1939.
I122: Mask, flute and grapes
Date: 1940
Plate size: 70 x 57 mm
Campbell Dodgson (1944): 122
States: only state
Proofs: unknown
Notes: This is a vignette on a half title for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by E. FitzGerald (Harrap, 1940) published in a limited edition of 125 copies.
I121: Frontispiece
Date: 1940
Plate size: 151 x 100 mm
Campbell Dodgson (1944): 121
States: only state
Proofs: unknown
Notes: This is an illustration for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by E. FitzGerald (Harrap, 1940) published in a limited edition of 125 copies.
I124: 'Lo! Some we loved . . . crept silently to rest'
Date: 1940
Plate size: 151 x 100 mm
Campbell Dodgson (1944): 124
States: two states
Proofs: unknown
Notes: This is an illustration for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by E. FitzGerald (Harrap, 1940) published in a limited edition of 125 copies.
I125: 'Annihilation's waste'
Date: 1940
Plate size: 151 x 100 mm
Campbell Dodgson (1944): 125
States: two states
Proofs: unknown
Notes: This is an illustration for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by E. FitzGerald (Harrap, 1940) published in a limited edition of 125 copies.
