Books Containing Artworks
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# 48878
Bigot, Georges Ferdinand (1860-1927)
Ma-Ta : dessins de G Bigot.
[Yokohama, 1884]. Quarto (292 x 213 mm), original plain limp covers with Japanese hand-stitched binding, 21 etched plates (including the main title) on papier japon, depicting Japanese people, aspects of traditional Japanese culture, and scenes from everyday life in Japan; an exceptional example, housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box, spine lettered in gilt. French …
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# 48802
McCRAE, Hugh (1876-1958); LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Idyllia
[Sydney] : N.L. Press, [1922]. Large quarto (418 x 355 mm), bound in white calf over white papered boards with Norman Lindsay decoration in gold and red (edges, boards and spine marked and scuffed), 35 pp, with Lindsay decorations in black highlighted with gilt, further illustrated with five large original Norman Lindsay etchings with titled …
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# 49534
McGREGOR, Ken; HOBBS, Ralph; STROCCHI, Marina; ROTHWELL, Nicholas
The art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett) (Deluxe edition, with an original etching)
/ Ken McGregor, Ralph Hobbs ; with a contribution by Marina Strocchi ; introduced by Nicholas Rothwell. Melbourne, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Deluxe edition, limited to 20 numbered copies (this is copy no. 2) and 5 hors commerce copies. Quarto, black cloth boards in slipcase, 215 pp, bound in at the front of the …
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# 9915
[OLSEN, John]. McGREGOR, Ken
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (Publisher’s edition with drawing)
By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, silver decorated cloth in matching slipcase, 264 pp, illustrated throughout. First edition, first printing of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Olsen’s graphics. This is the Publisher’s Edition, limited to 20 copies (numbered in two series of 10 copies: this …
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# 49566
[STORRIER]. LUMBY, Catherine.
Tim Storrier : the art of the outsider.
Sydney : Craftsman House, 2000. Quarto, fine gilt-titled cloth in matching slipcase with pictorial inlay, 216 pp. illustrated throughout. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed and numbered by Storrier, with an original signed colour lithograph Sunset Run loosely enclosed. This is copy number 23.
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# 49331
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
A family of forms
A book of original serigraphs by Robert Jacks. Melbourne and Townsville : Lyre Bird Press & Zimmer Editions, 1999. Large folio (520 x 410mm), embossed canvas covered boards with plain black paper jacket, vivid yellow endpapers, 16pp of text and striking full page original screenprints by Jacks. Limited to 30 copies signed by the artist. Anderson: …
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# 49474
GARTNER, John
The bookplates of William Hunter
Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1943. Large octavo, buckram with insert label, essay and checklist of bookplates, five original signed etched bookplates tipped-in, faint foxing to preliminaries. Limited to 50 copies (this is copy 41). The bookplates are for John Gartner, Victor Singer, Bread and Cheese Club, William Hunter and “Bible Joe”.
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# 49203
LYSSIOTIS, Peter, STRASSER, Theo and COLVIN, Robert
Remembrance
[Melbourne] : Masterthief, 2009. Folio (510 mm tall), lettered cloth, hand-painted endpapers, pp. [44], original screenprints and painted pages with overlaid text. Limited to 10 copies plus 3 artists proofs signed by the artists. This is copy number 8. “Composed by the two creators of Eyewitness (2008) in collaboration with the poet Colvin, Remembrance is …
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# 49475
URE SMITH, Sydney and BERTIE, Charles
Old colonial by-ways. (Deluxe edition with original etching)
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Quarto, quarter cloth over papered boards; essay, illustrated with 55 plates (some in colour, all tipped-in); contemporary owner’s name to endpaper, the deluxe edition, limited to 40 copies (this is number 30), with an original etching signed by Ure Smith.
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# 49075
YOUQUA (active 1840-1870)
An album of 12 paintings on pith paper
Album bound in patterned silk, 335 x 250 mm, some light wear, studio stamp of Youeequa Painter Old Street No. 34 to preliminary blank, containing 12 original gouache paintings on pith paper, each lined with a silk border, a few chips and creases, but the colour vibrant containing a series of scenes including court officials, punishment …
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# 49042
THOMAS, David.
Criss Canning : the pursuit of beauty. (Deluxe edition with original signed etching)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2007. Quarto, gilt-lettered teal cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 192, fully illustrated. First edition, the deluxe edition, limited to 75 numbered copies, with an original signed etching ‘Banksia’, printed at Port Jackson press, loosely accompanying the book. Written and published to coincide with the artist’s retrospective exhibition at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. …
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# 49050
ZAVROS, Michael
Michael Zavros (signed copy with an original drawing)
Written by Michael Zavros ; contributing writers: Laurence Simmons, Rhana Devenport, Chris Saines and Robert Leonard ; edited by Louise Martin-Chew. Sydney : Manuscript in Association with Philip Bacon Galleries and Starkwhite, [2017]. Quarto, illustrated papered boards, pp. 209, illustrated. Signed and inscribed by the artist on the title page, with a pen and ink …
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# 46473
NISBET, (James) Hume (1849-1923)
The Matador, and other recitative pieces. (With an original watercolour by the author)
London : Hutchinson & Co., 1893. Deluxe edition, limited to 12 numbered and signed copies containing an original watercolour drawing by the author. Small quarto (220 x 180 mm), publisher’s vellum over boards (rubbed) with pictorial device and gilt lettering to upper board, spine lettered in gilt and brown; top edge cut and gilded, fore- and …
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# 10934
SHIRLOW, John (1869-1936)
The “Sydney Set”
Melbourne : Edward A. Vidler, 1918. Folio, gilt-lettered papered boards (a little marked), 8 folded sheets with six original etchings, each signed in pencil, tipped in; with three of the six captioned tissue guards; light foxing and offsetting, title-page a little marked. List of plates: Sydney Cove, From Musgrave Street Wharf, 1917 George Street, Sydney, …
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# 45176
[SHIRLOW, John] CROLL, R. H.
The etched work of John Shirlow. (Deluxe edition)
Selected reproductions in half-tone of John Shirlow’s handicraft. Biography by R. H. Croll. Melbourne: Alexander McCubbin, [1920]. Quarto, quarter calf over cloth; bookplate to front pastedown; with 20 tipped-in plates reproducing Shirlow’s works. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, with an original etching by Shirlow tipped-in.
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# 44108
CROOKE, Ray (1922-2015)
An epistle from Oberea.
With decorations by Ray Crooke. Ferntree Gully, Vic. : The Rams Skull Press, 1955. Quarto, hessian-bound boards with traditional Polynesian tapa design (olive-coloured variant); pp. 24; illustrated with seven original silk screens by Ray Crooke. Limited to 250 copies signed by the artist; the cover was also silk-screened by Crooke on Thursday Island. A beautiful …