Books Containing Artworks

  • Bruno Leti (deluxe edition)

    # 50417

    [LETI]. GRISHIN, Sasha

    Bruno Leti (deluxe edition)

    Six Memos on the art of Bruno Leti. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2002. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in matching slipcase, 184pp. illustrated with images of Leti’s contemporary graphics and artists’ books. This the de luxe edition of 50 copies, signed by the artist, with an original graphic Lines and Planes (I) signed by the artist loosely …

  • Jean and Jeannette

    # 49328

    GAULTIER, Théophile

    Jean and Jeannette

    With illustrations by Ad. Lalauze. Preface by Leo Clarate. Paris : Societe des Beaux Arts, 1890s. Quarto, in a magnificent binding of full levant morocco, upper and lower boards elaborately decorated in gilt and multiple inlaid leathers with a large central fleur de lys within a floral border, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered …

  • The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton

    # 50328

    KIRTLEY, John T.; GOODE, Cyril E.

    The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton

    Ferntree Gully, Vic. :  John Kirtley, [1952] . Folio, maroon leather (lightly marked, scuffed at head and foot of spine), gilt lettering, light offsetting to endpapers, decorated title page, pp. [20]; with linocut illustrations by Charles Crampton, light scattered foxing. One of only fourteen hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author, this copy is …

  • Voyage sentimental en France et en Italie.

    # 50276

    STERNE, Laurence

    Voyage sentimental en France et en Italie.

    Traduction de Emile Blemont. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir. Paris : Librairie Artistique, 1884. Folio, finely bound in full crushed blue morocco by Canape R.D., filed in gilt with ornamental gilt corner pieces, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed at edges, ruled gilt dentelles with ornamental detail, marbled endpapers, …

  • Contes en vers et Premiers Contes en Vers.

    # 50356

    VOLTAIRE

    Contes en vers et Premiers Contes en Vers.

    Préface d’Eugène Marsan. Édition illustrée de six Eaux-Fortes originates à l’aquatinte par d’Henri Lafarge. Paris : Éditions Léo Delteil, 1925. Quarto, finely bound by Riviere in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title labels, some silver fishing and retouching to …

  • Accent & Hazard (copy A - the artist's own copy)

    # 50335

    STRACHAN, David (artist); KERSHAW, Alister (text)

    Accent & Hazard (copy A – the artist’s own copy)

    Paris : printed by Jacques Murray at the Stramur-presse, 1951. Small folio, colour printed paper portfolio (short split to one corner)in original card slipcase (slightly scuffed), housing ten sections containing Kershaw’s poems, etched from the manuscript by Murray, illustrated by eight large full page, double page or folding etchings and aquatints by David Strachan complemented …

  • No standing, only dancing : photographs by Rennie Ellis. (Deluxe edition with photograph)

    # 49656

    van WYK, Susan; NEGUS, George

    No standing, only dancing : photographs by Rennie Ellis. (Deluxe edition with photograph)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, black Brillianta linen with debossed Rennie Ellis signature and clear foil finish, hand crafted slip case, pp. 135, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 110 copies (of which 100 were for sale) with an original Rennie Ellis photograph Dino Ferrari, Toorak Road 1976 (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm) …

  • Ań archive of publications and artworks on Polish-Australian Jewish artist Felix Tuszynski

    # 50309

    TUSZYNSKI, Felix (1922 - 2016)

    Ań archive of publications and artworks on Polish-Australian Jewish artist Felix Tuszynski

    The Australian artist Felix Tuszynski (1922 – 2016) was a Polish holocaust survivor and brother to French miniature artist Devi Tuszynski. His fantastic and surrealist images are forged from memories of his family as well as time spend in the Auschwitz concentration camp. ZAREMBA, Tadeusz. The art of Felix Tuszynski. Płock : The Mazovian Museum, …

  • From an evolutionary point of view? A series of occasional drawings by Klaus Rudolf Zimmer (standard edition)

    # 50300

    ZIMMER, Jenny (editor)

    From an evolutionary point of view? A series of occasional drawings by Klaus Rudolf Zimmer (standard edition)

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing and Zimmer Editions, 2021. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 184, illustrated. The standard edition. New copy. ‘How did this book of unusual drawings, arranged in a hypothetically evolutionary cycle, come about? With a Berlin Diploma of Graphic Art, a successful audition for the Berlin Staatsoper and extensive adventures in the South …

  • Robert Jacks. Past unfolded (presentation copy for Yvonne Audette with original drawing)

    # 50234

    McGREGOR, Ken; JACKS, Robert

    Robert Jacks. Past unfolded (presentation copy for Yvonne Audette with original drawing)

    Sydney: Craftsman House 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, spine sunned, 168 pp. profusely illustrated. Signed by the artist, dated in the year of publication, with a warm presentation inscription from Robert Jacks to Australian artist Yvonne Audette, with a small pen drawing. The first major monograph on Jacks. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930). …

  • John Olsen (Yvonne Audette's copy)

    # 50124

    HART, Deborah

    John Olsen (Yvonne Audette’s copy)

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, handling creases, spine a little sunned, a few marks to preliminaries, pp. 228, illustrated. A lavish monograph on the great Australian painter. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930), with a signed inscription by her on the half title ‘To Dear John’. Acquired from the artist in …

  • "Shanghae Flowers" (painted 1845 - 1847)

    # 49132

    WHITE, Mary

    “Shanghae Flowers” (painted 1845 – 1847)

    Album, 295 x 240 x 75 mm, thick embossed morocco bound boards, brass clasp, small bookseller’s label from Kensington, London to pastedown, later family inscriptions to endpaper, calligraphic title leaf in red and blue, heightened in gold ‘Shanghae Flowers. Presented to James White by his wife on his Birthday April X 1868’, two page manuscript …

  • [GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

    # 34804

    TULLOCH, David

    [GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

    drawn on the spot by D. Tulloch, engraved and published by Thomas Ham. Melbourne : Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper with six vignettes of goldfields scenes by Tulloch (stained and creased with short tears, old paper reinforcement lower wrapper), title page and five tinted lithographed plates, …

  • Margaret Woodward

    # 50042

    FRY, Gavin; KLEPAC, Lou

    Margaret Woodward

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2020. Revised edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 310 x 250 mm., pp. 168, 102 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and photographs. The softcover edition. Margaret Woodward is recognised as a distinctly original artist. Winner of the Wynne Prize, and many other awards. This book explains how her highly …

  • Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)

    # 50007

    [CORRIGAN, Patrick]

    Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)

    Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. Quarto (365 mm tall), gilt-decorated blue cloth in matching slipcase, pp 148, portrait frontispiece, signed bookplate by Andrew Sibley, essay, tipped-in photographs, forty tipped-in facsimile bookplates commissioned from Australian artists by Pat Corrigan. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author, collector and publisher; printed letterpress, with a …

  • John Olsen. Drawing - the human touch (with a signed print)

    # 49963

    OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)

    John Olsen. Drawing – the human touch (with a signed print)

    With an interview by Ken McGregor. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 352, extensively illustrated. One of a handful of special copies issued with a tipped-in colour print of a John Olsen drawing titled ‘Find me if you can’, signed by John Olsen, measuring 215 x 150 mm.