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Stephen Frederick Gooden (Rugby 1892-1955 Chesham Bois)
Printmaker, illustrator and probably the most accomplished engraver of his generation, he was educated at Rugby school
and attended the Slade School of Fine Art from 1909-13. After serving in WWI he made experiments in etching, lithography and wood engraving
before settling on a lifelong devotion to copper engraving from the early 1920's. He reintroduced line engraving as a means
of book illustration while working for the Nonesuch Press. Although he exhibited regularly, his main output was
illustrative and commissioned bookplates (including for the Royal Family), frequently featuring items from mythology such as dragons,
cherubs, griffins and other heraldic subjects. Many are incredibly finely detailed. Books illustrated include: The Nonesuch Bible (1924),
George Moores The Brook Kerith (1929), Edward Marsh's The Fable of Jean La Fontaine (1931), Abraham Cowleys Anacreon (1923),
O. Henrys THe Gift of the Magi (1939) Roger L'Estranges Aesops Fables (1936), George Moores Peronnik the Fool (1933),
Mona Goodens The Poets Cat (1946), William Harveys Anatomical Exercises (1928), Edward Fitzgeralds Rubaiyat of
Omar Khayyam (1940), George Moores Ulick and Soracha (1926), Pindars Pythian Odes (1928), Songs of Gardens (1925),
Poems of the Desert (1944), The Legion Book (1929), The Trumpeter of St George (1941). He also designed for the Bank of England.
The Gargoyle
Engraving 1933
Haedpiece to Chapter 4 of Peronnik the Fool
72x99mm
Venus And Cupid
Engraving 1925. 45x34mm
Edition of 25 (2nd state)
Used as a Christmas card card after his marriage to Mona Steele Price.
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