(N.F., editor ) Sun Bathing Review (The): Journal of the Sun Societies , vol.1 nos.1-4, vol.3 no.10, vol.7 no.26, vol.8 no.29, vol.19 no.75 & vol.26 no.101 (Spring-Winter 1933, Summer 1935, Summer 1939, Spring 1940, Autumn 1951 & Spring 1958), illustrations, some issues with subscription forms bound in or loosely inserted, a few leaves loose, original pictorial wrappers, the first 4 issues with wood-engraving by Robert Gibbings on upper cover of different colour wrappers (used for first 8 issues), the later issues with photographic illustration on upper cover and advertisements on lower, a little rubbed, colour wrappers slightly faded at spines and edges and with staples replaced by stitching, slight rusting to staples on later issues, Sun Bathing Society, 1933-58 § Flaubert (Gustave) Salambo, translated by E.Powys Mathers, one of 500 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, presentation copy from Gibbings to N.F.Barford with the latter's pencil note "Given to me N.F.B. in 3 by R.G." on front free endpaper, light offsetting, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, t.e.g., others uncut, browned, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931, 4to (10) The cult of nudism started in Germany with the creation of Paul Zimmermann's Freilichtpark in 1903 followed by the publication of Hans Surén's Der Mensch und die Sonne in 1924, translated into English in 1928. The Sun Bathing Society was founded by N.F.Barford in the late 1920s with the opening of Sun Lodge in Upper Norwood in 1929, favouring minimal clothing, and later the Yew Tree Club near Croydon, which became completely nudist. The 1930s was a golden age for British nudists and a letter to The Times on 18th March 1932 advocating the advantages of minimal clothing for exercise and health was signed by many notable figures, including Vera Brittain, A.E.Coppard, Robert Gibbings, Winifred Holtby, Julian Huxley, Naomi Mitchison and G.B.Shaw. Robert Gibbings was a strong supporter of nudism, having visited a camp in Germany during the 1920s. Sun Bathing Review includes many contributions by Gibbings: the wood-engraving Sunbathers on the upper cover of the first four issues; full-page wood-engraving The Bather on p.7 of Winter 1933 issue; articles in issues Winter 1933 'A garment for sunbathing' & advertisement for the sale of his house Four Elms at Waltham St.Lawrence "a unique sun bathing property" with stone carving by Eric Gill and "two acres of secluded orchard" with swimming pool, Summer 1939 'Rock Pool' and Spring 1940 'Paradise Lost' by "W.St.Lawrence"; and 'An Appreciation of Robert Gibbings' by A[lan] R.W[arwick] in Spring 1958 issue. The last ends with a quotation by Gibbings, " Nudism is now an accepted fact, and needs no further apology or justification Let sun bathing, therefore, be the doorway to wider horizons and to something more than an egotistical interest in one's own body."