Books Containing Artworks
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# 36570
HOLMES, Lorraine
Oddilly the Goat
Kingston : A.C.T. : Holmes-Wadlington, 1988. Quarto (335 x 240 mm), hand bound by Helen Wadlington in stencilled papered boards, bound in concertina form using the Japanese ‘butterfly’ binding technique, eleven original linocuts hand coloured by the artist, text printed letterpress with initials rubricated by hand, a fine copy. Limited to 50 copies, this is …
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# 36428
[SHEAD]. HARD, Lynn.
Australia suite. Drawings by Garry Shead
Sydney: ETT Imprint, 1998. Quarto, cloth bound boards, small mark lower board, 80pp. illustrated by Shead. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by the artist, poet and binder, with an original signed etching loosely enclosed.
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# 35917
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874-1961); LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
A consideration of the art of Ernest Moffitt
Text by Lionel Lindsay. Melbourne : Atlas Press, 1899. Quarto, original wrappers with woodcut decorations by Norman and Lionel Lindsay (lightly silverfished), 40 pp, with an original etching by Moffitt (signed in the image) posthumously printed by Victor Cobb, black and white Lindsay decorations in the text, pictorial title and verso by Norman Lindsay. One of …
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# 35929
SIBLEY, Irena (1944 - 2009)
Rainbow. 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts.
Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1980. First edition. Folio (545 x 380 mm), quarter-morocco over silver-lettered buckram, title label to spine, 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts (each signed and numbered), additional lino-cut title page, three additional proof linocuts loosely enclose. Limited to 67 signed copies of which 60 were for sale, this is copy number 4. …
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# 35968
SHIRLOW, John (1869 - 1936)
The “Melbourne Set”. Etchings by John Shirlow
Melbourne : Edward A. Vidler, 1920. Folio, gilt-lettered papered boards (a little marked), cloth spine and rope tie, light foxing to endpapers, Foreword by John Shirlow, signed colophon, six original etchings, each signed and numbered in pencil, tipped in, with captioned title labels, a fine copy. The list of plates are: Melbourne from the East …
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# 30224
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)
A book of woodcuts. (Deluxe edition)
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Quarto, cloth covered boards, title inlay, all edges uncut, unpaginated, signed woodcut frontispiece printed from colour blocks, foreword by Lindsay with woodcut decoration, a further twenty original woodcuts tipped-in. The deluxe edition, limited to 35 copies, hand printed by Percy Green on Japanese vellum, the woodblocks hand printed by …
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# 35491
NOLAN, Sidney
The Darkening Ecliptic : poems by Ern Malley : paintings by Sidney Nolan. (Copy number 1 of the deluxe edition, with an original drawing by Nolan featuring Ned Kelly)
Preface by Robert Melville. Introduction by Elwyn Lynn. [London] : R. Alistair McAlpine, 1974. Limited edition of 1000 copies, THIS ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES OF THE DE-LUXE EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING BY SIDNEY NOLAN, this numbered 1/50, signed on the title page by Sidney Nolan, Robert Melville and Elwyn Lynn. Quarto, with …
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# 35728
HUMPHRIES, Chris et al.
Monash University. 2nd year printmakers 1990
[Melbourne : Monash University, Department of Art and Design, 1992]. Quarto, gilt-lettered buckram, sixteen original intaglio and planographic graphics, each signed by the artist and limited to 23 numbered copies, glassine interleaved. A bound volume of original artworks from the second year printmakers at Monash. Identified artists include Susan Mitchell, Darren Patrich, Dominic White, Chris …
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# 35191
LISTER, Anthony (1979 - )
[Sketchbook] (deluxe limited edition with original drawing)
[Melbourne : Black Art Projects, 2013]. Oblong octavo (145 x 213 mm) black cloth bound boards, pp. [192], reproducing drawings from Anthony Lister’s sketchbooks from 2002 – 2012. The deluxe edition, additionally signed by the artist and limited to 100 copies, containing an original small signed pencil drawing or a rose, signed and dated 2013, and …
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# 34721
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
Bill Henson
Deluxe edition with two signed photographs. Paris : Editions Bessard, 2016. Quarto, full silk with lenticular (holographic) cover, pp. [48], all full-page images of Henson’s photographs, paper folder at rear containing a signed photograph of a nude girl measuring 11.5 x 16 cm, housed within a silver-lettered raw silk clamshell box. The deluxe edition, limited to …
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# 34434
McHUGH, Vincent (1904 - 1983); ADAMS, Tate (1922 - 2018)
Alpha : the mutabilities
Poems by Vincent McHugh ; with wood engravings by Tate Adams.San Francisco : The Porpoise Bookshop, 1958. Folio, letterpress wrappers (lightly handling wear), stringbound, pp. [16], letterpress text by McHugh and wood engravings by Adams. A very good copy. Poems & Pictures series number eleven. 137 copies printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press. …
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# 34229
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 …
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# 33528
[LINDSAY, Lionel]. BRENNAN, Christopher.
The Burden of Tyre. Fifteen poems by Christopher Brennan. Etchings by Lionel Lindsay.
Sydney: privately printed by Harry Chaplin, 1953. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (marked), dustjacket (light water stains), unpaginated, tipped-in etched portrait of Brennan by Lionel Lindsay, signed and numbered, text in letterpress and reproduction of manuscript, tipped-in plate. Limited to 300 copies signed by Harry Chaplin.
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# 33480
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. 11) and 5 hors commerce copies. Quarto, black cloth boards in slipcase, 215 pp, bound in at the front of the work …
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# 33749
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
Principio erat (Artist’s edition A)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, pictorial laminated boards, pp. [70], several double fold-out pages, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. Principio erat is published in a standard and deluxe edition – described as the ‘Artist’s edition’ by the publisher. The standard edition is published in two variations, each limited to 500 numbered copies. …
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# 33529
ASTBURY, Leigh
Earth to sky. The art of Victor Majzner (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2002. Quarto, cloth, illustrated dustjacket, slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies, with an original signed etching ‘Self-portrait’ loosely enclosed. Part I. The Substance of the Matter 1966-1982: 1. Painting as process and paint as substance 1966-1976; 2. Explorations of a personal kind 1977-1982 Part II. Cultural Landscapes 1983-1992: 3. Cultural …