Magogmagog. Being randon examples of the innumerable, incredible ideas & guises of Gog, Ma, Gogma & Magog.

4to.

Publ. quarter vellum, brown Ingres paper boards orn. with a design in black, spine titled in black, red and brown, black doubled endleaves, blue and brown patterned pastedowns, acetate dust-jacket.

Edition limited to 75 copies (n. 16) signed by M. Cox. Printed on hand-made Japanese yellow Mingei and white Hosho papers and set in Matura, Bodoni Ultra, Figaro & Victorian wood-letter. Ill. with 9 reverse-offset linocuts printed in black on blue Japanese paper. The white lines which punctuate these drawings were realized by penknife cutting into the blue paper of the drawing which was then placed on white paper. The yellow text pages ornamented with light monotypes in white. Cox drew, engraved the blocks, set, hand-printed, bound & conceived the whole.
The Gogmagog Press was established by Cox mainly to publish original texts supported in full by his own illustrations. His philosophy was a severe one demanding that all the tasks involved in the production should be undertaken by the author/artist: "no serious work should be attempted which can be done as well or better by the average commercial printer". Cox's highly individual techniques in printing made the whole process extremely slow, each impression demanding perhaps 15 or 20 minutes to make. Gogmagog has been aptly described as "the most poetic and creative private press in England".
Ref. Cave, The Private Press, p. 64-67. - Chambers, D. [e.a.], Morris Cox & the Gogmagog Press, p. 149. - Not in Ransom, Tomkinson.
Prov. [Marianne Delvaulx].
Exhibition Le livre & l'estampe, Cinquante printemps. Brussels, KBR, 2004, p. 184, n. 241.