Gooden - catalogue

Bookplates, arms, award labels and devices by Stephen Gooden

(Page updated 21/10/2023)

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, issued in white cloth slipcase. The book contains a signed engraving by Gooden dated 1943 of a monkey seated on a chair. The remaining 340 numbered copies are bound in dark blue gilt cloth and do not contain a signed engraving.

The American collector Duncan Andrews (1935-2011) prepared a detailed new catalogue of all Gooden's engravings based on his own collection, which was only missing three items. He also wrote a biography of Stephen Gooden. He was unable to get either published before his death from cancer in 2011 aged 75. I am in the process of transcribing his catalogue and hope to get both published. I have also created a spreadsheet that lists all of Gooden's engraved work, including bookplates, using the catalogue numbers of both Dodgson (1941) and Andrews (2006), and have used this to create the tables below.

Photo of Gooden in about 1937

Stephen Gooden in about 1937

The tables below give the following information:

D.A.: the numerical code given by Duncan Andrews in his Catalogue of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden which puts some plates in a different order from Dodgson (1944). I have listed separately the prize plates, coats of arms and devices. If the plate was modified and printed, then I have added a decimal point and number to identify these later published states.
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states of the design as it was being developed plus subsequently printed states as it was modified, taken from Andrews' unpublished list.
H (mm): the height of the plate in mm, mostly taken from Dodgson (1944) or Andrews (2011) if later, 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) or Andrews (2011) if later, 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 link to an image of the plate and perhaps a comment.

Credits

Images of several bookplates have been kindly provided by Anthony Pincott of The Bookplate Society. The image of the bookplate for Robert Chrichton Stewart was kindly provided by an anonymous collector in Scotland.

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.

Update on 12/11/2023. I added more images and revised the numbering of the Royal plates to have images on each row.

Table 1. Bookplates designed by Stephen Gooden

D.A.	Name (with link to person or place)	Year	States	H (mm)	W (mm)	C.D.	Where	Notes or image
187	J.N. Hart	1923	9.00	98.0	67.0	129	BM	See here
188	Leigh D. Brownlee	1923	2.00	102.0	64.0	130		See here
189	G.F. & A.E. Waley	1924	2.00	81.0	56.0	131		See here
190	Joseph Hugh Leycester	1924	2.00	102.0	64.0	132
191	S.L. Courtauld	1925	2.00	114.0	89.0	133		See here
192	Katherine Cromer	1925	2.00	111.0	64.0	134		See here
193.1	Mary Thynne	1926	5.00	76.0	76.0	135		See here
193.2	Beatrice Thynne	1926	5.00	76.0	76.0	135		See here
194	Dorothy Moulton Mayer	1926	3.00	95.0	54.0	136	VA	See here
195	Geoffrey Keynes	1926	2.00	51.0	79.0	137		See here
196	Mona Gooden	1926	2.00	51.0	60.0	138		See here
197	Bertine Entwistle Sutton	1927	1.00	84.0	64.0	139		See here
198	Harold Hartley	1927	3.00	87.0	87.0	140		See here
199.1	Antoinette Brett	1927	12.00	92.0	64.0	141		See here
199.2	Antoinette Esher	1927	.00	90.0	62.0	141		See here
200	Margaret Griselda Wedderburn	1928	1.00	86.0	64.0	142		Wife of Hartley. See here
201	Edward and Cicely Hutchinson	1928	4.00	97.0	60.0	143		See here
202	George Courtauld	1931	4.00	140.0	79.0	144		See here
203	Imperial Defence College Library	1932	6.00	127.0	62.0	145		See here
204	The Lakeside Press Library Chicago	1932-33	3.00	83.0	81.0	146	AIC	See here
205	John Raymond Danson	1934	3.00	108.0	64.0	147		See here
206	George Harrap	1935	1.00	113.0	65.0	148		See here
207	Liverpool Medical Institution Library	1936	2.00	132.0	87.0	149		See here
208	George Senter	1936	1.00	59.0	62.0	150		See here
209.1	Royal Library Windsor , small plate, GVIR at base (George VI)	1937		71.0	59.0	151		See here
209.2	Ibid, no cypher, jaw dropped	1937	2.00	71.0	59.0	151		See here
210.1	Royal Library Windsor, medium plate, cypher ER at top (Edward VIII)	1937	5.00	138.0	86.0	152		See here. Not used
210.2	Ibid, cypher GVIR (George VI) at top	1937		138.0	86.0	152		See here
210.3	Ibid, no cypher at top	1954		122.0	86.0	152		See here
211.1	Royal Library Windsor, large plate, cypher GVIR at top (George VI)	1937	7.00	175.0	111.0	154		See here
211.2	Ibid, no cypher or numerals	1954		175.0	111.0	154		See here
214	William George Arthur, 4th Baron Harlech	1938	4.00	175.0	133.0	155		See here
215	Ethel Luce-Clausen	1940	5.00	98.0	60.0	156	BM	See here
216	Leslie Wall	1940	3.00	102.0	79.0	157		See here
218	Elsie Tritton	1941	1.00	89.0	68.0			See here
219	Elizabeth R (Queen Mother), large	1942	6.00	135.0	95.0	183		See here
220	Elizabeth R (Queen Mother), small	1942	2.00	73.0	51.0	184		See here
222	City of Liverpool Public Libraries, large bookplate	1944	2.00	123.0	91.0		BM, VA	See here
223	[City of Liverpool Public Libraries] Presented by	1944	2.00	39.0	91.0		BM, VA	See here
224	Liverpool Public Libraries, Reference Library	1944	4.00	101.0	48.0		BM, VA	See here
225	(Princess) Elizabeth	1946	2.00	139.0	92.0			See here
226	(Princess) Margaret	1946	2.00					See here
227	Central African Archives Library	1946	2.00	138.0	83.0			See here
	National Archives Library	1946						See here
228	Derek Spence	1949	2.00	83.0	83.0			See here
229	Urban Huttleston Rogers, Lord Fairhaven Small plate	c1954	2.00	65.0	92.0			See here
230	Urban Huttleston Rogers, Lord Fairhaven Medium plate	c1954	1.00	65.0	92.0			See here
231	Urban Huttleston Rogers, Lord Fairhaven Large plate	c1954	1.00	108.0	95.0			See here
232	Royal College of Surgeons of England, small plate	1951	1.00	67.0	50.0			See here
233	Royal College of Surgeons of England, large plate	1953	3.00	118.0	89.0			See here

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

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

Table 3. Coats of Arms designed by Stephen Gooden

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

Table 4. Devices designed by Stephen Gooden

D.A.	Name of organisation	Year	States	H (mm)	W (mm)	C.D.	Notes or image
21	The Nonesuch Press, 1st device	1924	1.00	51.0	38.0	158
22	The Nonesuch Press, 2nd device	1924	1.00	45.0	37.0	159
23	The Walden Bookshop	1924	1.00	46.0	48.0	160
82	C.W. Hobson, Ltd, small device	1930	2.00	64.0	51.0	172
83	C.W. Hobson, Ltd, large device	1930	1.00	127.0	127.0	173
118	Messrs Heinemann	1932	1.00	70.0	144.0	176	See here
119	Stork, No. 1 (unused device)	1932	1.00	51.0	38.0	177
120	Stork, No. 2 (unused device)	1932	1.00	29.0	17.0	178
151	J.M. Dent & Co.	1938	1.00	64.0	43.0	180
180	The Griffin Club, Amersham	1947	1.00	121.0	76.0		See here

Table 5. Embossed designs by Stephen Gooden

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