to be just right". Further reading The definitive biography of Gibbings is by Martin Andrews, and the definitive bibliography is by Mary Kirkus. There is an article on his bookplate production in the Bookplate Journal, and one on his working library in the Private Library. There are a number of relevant articles in Matrix 9. There are two collections of his wood engravings, the first by Thomas Balston, the second, more definitive collection by Patience Empson. The main collection of his work in Great Britain is held by Reading University. A significant number of Gibbings’ original wood engravings are also held at St Bride Library References 1889 births 1958 deaths Military personnel from County Cork British Army personnel of World War I Royal Munster Fusiliers officers Gallipoli campaign 20th-century Irish painters Irish male painters Irish sculptors British illustrators British wood engravers Irish wood engravers People from Kinsale Irish male short story writers 20th-century Irish short story writers Irish nature writers 20th-century travel writers Irish travel writers Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design People from Waltham St Lawrence People from South Oxfordshire District 20th-century Irish sculptors Male sculptors 20th-century British printmakers 20th-century Irish male artists 20th-century engravers