Gooden - catalogue

Bookplates, arms, award labels and devices by Stephen Gooden

Gooden's designs for bookplates issued before 1944 are reproduced in the book by Campbell Dodgson (1944) An Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden. London: Elkin Matthews.

This book was published in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies of which numbers 1 - 160 are bound in dark blue gilt cloth backed with white vellum, with the title, author and date on the spine in gold. The book contains a signed engraving by Gooden dated 1943 of a monkey seated on a chair and the book was issued in a plain white cloth slip case. The remaining 340 numbered copies are bound in dark blue, gilt cloth and do not contain a signed engraving.

As well as designing bookplates for people and organisations, Gooden designed prize labels, also to be pasted inside the front covers of books, so they are included here; he engraved a coat-of-arms for two institutions; and he designed 'devices', mostly small decorations, to be used by publishers. They are also listed by Dodgson, but I have separated them here in the tables, below.

I have listed the plate for the British Council in the category of arms because when he engraved it he was asked to remove the words 'ex libris' on the design.

Photo of Gooden in about 1937

Stephen Gooden in about 1937

Campbell Dodgson divided his catalogue into sections:

1. Separate plates

2. Illustrations, title pages, vignettes

3. Bookplates

4. Devices, ornaments, monograms etc

5. Recent engravings

As Dodgson numbered items sequentially it is not possible to interpolate in chronological order items which were designed after 1944. For example, Gooden designed at least 14 bookplates after 1944, so they were not numbered by Dodgson and cannot be added after the last boookplate, which is numbered 157 in a sequence of 180 items. For this reason I have created a new sequential numbering system after a letter prefix depending on the type of item:

A for arms

B for bookplates

C for curency notes (not listed here yet)

D for devices

E for embossed metal plates or medallions

H for headpieces and letter headings (not listed here yet)

I for illustrations for books, including title pages (not listed here yet)

L for award or prize labels

M for monograms (not listed here yet)

P for plates, engraved or etched as separate works of art (not listed here yet)

Q for cheque forms (not listed here yet)

S for stamps and other philatelic items (not listed here yet).

The tables below give the following information:

Code: the letter prefix (see above) and a serial number of the plate, in date order first, then in alphabetical order of the surname in each year; this may put some plates in a different order from Dodgson (1944). If the plate was modified and printed, then a decimal point and number is used to identify the different published versions.
Name: the name of the person or institution engraved on the bookplate, with an external link to a page of information about them, if I can find one.
Year: the year the plate was designed.
States: the number of states of the design as it was being developed, mostly taken from Dodgson (1944). This table does not include preliminary states from which trial proofs were taken to check the design, it only recognises the final design and any subsequent change in design because of a change in name e.g. Brett/Esher, or a designed modified for a succeeding member of Royalty.
H (mm): the height of the plate in mm, mostly taken from Dodgson (1944) and converted from inches into the nearest whole millimetre or, if the mid-point, rounded to the nearest even number.
W (mm): the width of the plate in mm, mostly taken from Dodgson (1944) and converted from inches into the nearest whole millimetre or, if the mid-point, rounded to the nearest even number.
C.D.: the serial number of the design in Dodgson (1944), which includes items that are not bookplates and explains the fact that the first number is 129.
Where: the location of a proof: AIC = Art Institute of Chicago; BM = British Museum; VA = Victoria & Albert Museum.
Notes: a comment with a link to an image of the plate, if I have one, or to information about the plate, usually on an external web site, if one can be found.

I have only listed a specific state if it is a different printed version of the plate, rather than just a trial proof taken by Gooden to enable him to see the design as it was was being developed.

Credits

Information about bookplates and images of several have been kindly provided by Anthony Pincott of The Bookplate Society and are marked (AP). One image has been kindly provided by a Private Collector in Scotland (PCS).

Update on 4/3/2022. I created separate tables for arms, bookplates, devices and labels.

Update on 24/4/2023. I added the bookplate for George Harrap, the prize label for Ashwell Merchant Taylor's School, and the device for the Griffin Club. If these don't show, please press refresh to update the links.

Table 1. Bookplates designed by Stephen Gooden

Code	Name (with link to person or place)	Year	States	H (mm)	W (mm)	C.D.	Where	Notes or image
B1	J.N. Hart	1923	7.00	98.0	67.0	129	BM	See here
B2	Leigh D. Brownlee	1923	1.00	102.0	64.0	130
B3	G.F. & A.E. Waley	1924	2.00	81.0	56.0	131
B4	Joseph Hugh Leycester	1924	1.00	102.0	64.0	132
B5	S.L. Courtauld	1925	2.00	114.0	89.0	133		See here
B6	Katherine Cromer	1925	2.00	111.0	64.0	134		See here (AP)
B7	Mona Gooden	1926	2.00	51.0	60.0	138		See here
B8	Geoffrey Keynes	1926	2.00	51.0	79.0	137		See here
B9	Dorothy Moulton Mayer	1926	2.00	95.0	54.0	136	VA	See here
B10	Mary Thynne	1926	5.00	76.0	76.0	135
B11	Harold Hartley	1927	3.00	87.0	87.0	140		See here
B12	Bertine Entwistle Sutton	1927	1.00	84.0	64.0	139		See here
B13.1	Antoinette Brett	1927	12.00	92.0	64.0	141		See here
B13.2	Antoinette Esher	1927	.00	90.0	62.0	141		See here
B14	Edward and Cicely Hutchinson	1928	3.00	97.0	60.0	143		See here (AP)
B15	Margaret Griselda Wedderburn	1928	1.00	86.0	64.0	142		Wife of Hartley. See here
B16	George Courtauld	1931	2.00	140.0	79.0	144		See here
B17	Imperial Defence College Library	1932	2.00	127.0	62.0	145		See here
B18	The Lakeside Press Library Chicago	1932-33	2.00	83.0	81.0	146	AIC	See here
B19	John Raymond Danson	1934	3.00	108.0	64.0	147		See here
B20	George Harrap	1935	1.00	113.0	65.0	148		See here
B21	Liverpool Medical Institution Library	1936	2.00	132.0	87.0	149		See here
B22	George Senter	1936	1.00	59.0	62.0	150		See here (AP)
B23	Royal Library Windsor , small	1937	3.00	71.0	59.0	151
B23.1	Ibid, cypher G VI R (George VI) at base	1937		71.0	59.0	151		See here
B23.2	Ibid, no letters, jaw dropped	1937		71.0	59.0	151		See here (AP)
B24	Royal Library Windsor, medium	1937	4.00	.0	.0	152
B24.2	Ibid, cypher E R (Edward VIII) at top	1937		138.0	86.0	152		Not used
B24.3	Ibid, cypher G VI R (George VI) at top	1937		138.0	86.0	152		See here
B24.4	Ibid, no cypher at top	1954		122.0	86.0	152		See here
B25	Royal Library Windsor, large	1937	7.00	175.0	111.0	154
B25.6	Ibid, cypher G VI R (George VI) at top	1937	7.00	175.0	111.0	154		See here (AP)
B25.7	Ibid, no letters or numerals (after CD?)	1954		175.0	111.0	154		See here
B26	William George Arthur, 4th Baron Harlech	1938	4.00	175.0	133.0	155		See here
B27	Ethel Luce-Clausen	1940	4.00	98.0	60.0	156	BM	See here
B28	Leslie Wall	1940	3.00	102.0	79.0	157		See here (AP)
B29	Elizabeth R (Queen Mother), large	1942	6.00	135.0	95.0	183		See here
B30	Elizabeth R (Queen Mother), small	1942	1.00	73.0	51.0	184		See here (PCS)
B31	City of Liverpool Public Libraries, large bookplate	1944		123.0	91.0		BM, VA	See here
B32	[City of Liverpool Public Libraries] Presented by	1944		39.0	91.0		BM, VA	See here
B33	Liverpool Public Libraries, Reference Library	1944		101.0	48.0		BM, VA	See here
B34	(Princess) Margaret	1946
B35	(Princess) Elizabeth	1946		139.0	92.0			See here
B36.1	Central African Archives Library	1946		138.0	83.0			See here
B36.2	National Archives Library	1946						See here
B37	Derek Spence	1949		83.0	83.0			See here
B38	Royal College of Surgeons of England, small plate	1951		67.0	50.0			See here
B39	Royal College of Surgeons of England, large plate	1953		118.0	89.0			See here
B40	Urban Huttleston Rogers, Lord Fairhaven Large plate	c1954		108.0	95.0			See here
B41	Urban Huttleston Rogers, Lord Fairhaven Medium plate	c1954		65.0	92.0			See here
B42	Urban Huttleston Rogers, Lord Fairhaven Small plate	c1954		65.0	92.0
B43	Elsie Tritton	Unk						See here (AP)

Bookplate designed but not engraved by Stephen Gooden

A bookplate was designed by Stephen Gooden for Robert Crichton-Stuart. It was engraved by Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) after Gooden's death.

Table 2. Prize Labels designed by Stephen Gooden

Code	Name of institution	Year	States	H (mm)	W (mm)	C.D.	Notes or image
L1	Hertfordshire Art Society	1938	1.00	138.0	86.0	154	See here
L2.1	Ashwell Merchant Taylor's School	1942	2.00	113.0	76.0	185	See here
L2.2	Ashwell County Primary School	1942					Different lettering

Table 3. Coats of Arms designed by Stephen Gooden

Code	Organisation	Year	States	H (mm)	W (mm)	C.D.	Where	Notes or image
A1	The British Council	1941	3.00	127.0	100.0	181		See here
A2	Institution of Mechanical Engineers	1947	2.00	175.0	125.0			See here

Table 4. Devices designed by Stephen Gooden

Code	Name of organisation	Year	States	H (mm)	W (mm)	C.D.	Notes or image
D1	The Nonesuch Press, 1st device	1924	1.00	51.0	38.0	158
D2	The Nonesuch Press, 2nd device	1924	1.00	45.0	37.0	159
D3	The Walden Bookshop	1924	1.00	46.0	48.0	160
D4	C.W. Hobson, Ltd, small device	1930	2.00	64.0	51.0	172
D5	C.W. Hobson, Ltd, large device	1930	1.00	127.0	127.0	173
D5	Messrs Heinemann	1932	1.00	70.0	144.0	176	See here
D6	Stork, No. 1 (unused device)	1932	1.00	51.0	38.0	177
D7	Stork, No. 2 (unused device)	1932	1.00	29.0	17.0	178
D8	J.M. Dent & Co.	1938	1.00	64.0	43.0	180
D9	The Griffin Club, Amersham	1947	1.00	121.0	76.0		See here

Table 5. Embossed designs by Stephen Gooden

Code	Name of organisation	Year	States	H (mm)	W (mm)	C.D.	Where	Notes or image
E1	Old Etonian Trust	195?	1.00	38.0	38.0		Eton	Embossed seal from an engraved metal die