Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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# 18199
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul.
Exhibition of black and white, and water colour drawings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Opened by Lady Cullen at the fine art gallery Anthony Hordern & Sons, Limited, Brickfield Hill, Sydney April 16, 1917. Octavo, self-wrappers (pale foxing), two page appreciation by Mary Mansfield, catalogue of 60 works including numerous originals from ‘Elves and Fairies’, vignette illustration, note about the publication of Elves & Fairies. Loosely enclosed, an illustrated …
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# 17238
DASKEIN, Tarella Quin; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator)
Chimney Town
London : A. & C. Black, 1934. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial blue cloth boards, inscription to front endpapers, 238 pp, illustrated throughout with full-page black and white plates, two colour plates, and drawings in the text. A fine copy of the first edition. Muir 1908.
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# 17461
RENTOUL, Annie R. and RENTOUL, Ida S.
Mollie’s bunyip
Melbourne: Robert Jolley, 1904. Oblong quarto, illustrated red wrappers (a few tears and chips to the yapp edges, small strip of sunning to bottom edge of rear wrapper), ribbon ties, 50 pp., 12 black and white plates plus illustrations in text, reproducing Annie’s handwritten script, a good copy. Previous owner’s inscription on title page. The variant …
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# 17459
RENTOUL, Annie.
The lady of the blue beads.
Her book, being an account of her first blue moon spent on Sun Island. Illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul. Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., [1908]. Quarto, printed grey papered flushcut boards, rexine backstrip (some soiling to front board), endpapers replaced, 102 pp., occasional foxing illustrated throughout. Muir 6342 (variant).
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# 17458
RENTOUL, Annie R. and OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul.
The little green road to Fairyland.
London: A. & C. Black, 1922. First edition. Quarto, patterned boards with paper title label (edges a little rubbed), 103 pp., 8 colour and 8 black and white plates, previous owner’s name to half title, some occasional foxing. One of the classic illustrated Outhwaite titles, published in large format by A. & C. Black. Muir …
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# 17462
RENTOUL, Annie I. and RENTOUL, Ida S
Mollie’s Staircase
Melbourne: M. L. Hutchinson, 1906. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers (front wrapper stained), original ribbon ties, 12 black and white plates by Ida S. Rentoul, plus illustrations in text, a few pages marked and foxed, but a sound copy. Muir 6333.
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# 17486
RENTOUL, Annie R.; RENTOUL, Ida S. (illustrator)
The lady of the blue beads
Her book, being an account of her first blue moon spent on Sun Island. Illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul. Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., [1908]. Quarto, oatmeal cloth boards, the upper board decorated in orange and blue (minor stains and wear), front free endpaper with Edwardian period inscription, 102 pp, illustrated throughout, with thirteen full …
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# 17245
QUIN, Tarella; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (ill.)
Before the lamps are lit
Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., [1911]. Oblong quarto, illustrated cloth boards (minor rubbing), inscription on front endpaper, pp 189. A compilation of six children’s stories with engravings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Muir 1907.
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# 17258
DASKEIN, Tarella Quin; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator)
The Other Side of Nowhere
Illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1934. Oblong quarto, illustrated blue cloth, lacking dustjacket, 171 pp., illustrated. Muir 1909.
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# 17256
Gum Tree Brownie and other faërie folk of the Never-Never.
Melbourne: George Robertson [1907]. First edition. Oblong quarto, pictorial bevelled green cloth boards (in fine condition), marbled endpapers (hinges slightly split), first blank with tape repair, preliminaries with mild foxing, foreword by Ethel Turner, 184 pp, illustrated, clean internals, a fine copy of the scarce first edition. The third book illustrated by Ida Rentoul. Muir …
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# 17254
[MARTIN, George W.].
The sentry and the Shell fairy.
Melbourne: British Imperial Oil, [c. 1922]. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers (near mint), 16 pp., faint foxing to preliminaries, six colour plates by Outhwaite, a scarce promotional booklet produced for Shell. The better variant issue with additional Outhwaite illustration on p. 16. Muir 4851.
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# 16952
MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert
The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 171 pp. extensively illustrated. The definitive reference on Outhwaite, one of Australia’s and Britain’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators. A very good copy of the first edition.
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# 16994
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul and OUTHWAITE, Grenbry
The enchanted forest
London: A. & C. Black, 1925. Quarto, illustrated cloth (spine lightly sunned) 93 pp., 16 colour and 15 black and white plates, child’s name in pencil to half-title, a clean copy. Muir 5597.
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# 15424
Melba’s gift book of Australian art and literature
Melbourne : George Robertson, c. 1915. Quarto, lettered cloth, pp. 176, colour and black white plates. Fundraising book from the Great War “The entire profits from the sale of this book will be devoted by Madam Melba to the Belgian Relief Fund”. Literary contributors include Ethel Turner, Henry Lawson, Tarella Quin, Dorothea Mackellar, Edward Vidler, …
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# 12617
[MARTIN, George W.].
The sentry and the Shell fairy.
Melbourne: British Imperial Oil, [c. 1922]. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers (fine), 16 pp., very light central verticle crease, six colour plates by Outhwaite, a scarce promotional booklet produced for Shell. The better variant issue with additional Outhwaite illustration on p. 16. Muir 4851.
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# 12612
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul.
Sixpence to spend.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1935. Quarto, papered boards, illustrated dustjacket, 92 pp., black and white illustrations, five tipped-in colour plates, sparse foxing to preliminaries and a couple of other leaves, a little canted but very fine. Holden and Muir describe Sixpence as ‘the last real book Ida wrote and illustrated… Amusing and well-executed, the artist’s …