Norman Lindsay & Family

  • The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

    # 51572

    JOHNSON, Heather

    The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

    Grass Point [N.S.W.] : Bungoona Technologies, 1997. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 279, black and white illustrations. Scarce. Includes numerous references to Margaret Preston, Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay and other artists of the period. A mint copy.

  • Renaissance 1961

    # 51559

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Renaissance 1961

    Watercolour on paper, 56.0 x 89.0 cm; 85.0 x 115.0 cm (framed), signed and dated lower right: Norman Lindsay / 1961. One of the most ambitious watercolours ever created by Norman Lindsay, painted in epic large format. A highly complex figurative composition, in which the octogenarian painter displays a lifetime of experience in capturing the …

  • The Silver Branch

    # 51215

    DEAMER, Dulcie (1890 - 1972)

    The Silver Branch

    Twenty-seven poems by Dulcie Deamer. Dover Heights (Sydney) : Swinburne Press, 1948. Octavo, quarter cloth over lettered boards, Norman Lindsay illustrated dustjacket (lightly marked and edge worn), slight split to upper hinge, frontispiece illustration by Rosaleen Norton, pp. 89; colophon, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Dulcie Deamer.  Very scarce. ‘Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie …

  • Catalogue of the magnificent furniture, art treasures, costly appointments and effects ... throughout the residence 'Wyldefel', Wylde Street, Potts Point.

    # 51472

    LAWSON, James R.

    Catalogue of the magnificent furniture, art treasures, costly appointments and effects … throughout the residence ‘Wyldefel’, Wylde Street, Potts Point.

    Sydney : James R. Lawson, 1935. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, marked with tears to the yapp edges, pp. 132, occasional foxing. Lavish catalogue of the opulent contents of ‘Wyldefel’ owned by Mr. W. A. Crowle. Includes rare Lalique glass, silver, Chinese ivory and Japanese antiques, exhibition quality furniture etc. The artworks include numerous etchings by Norman …

  • Miles Franklin : an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of her birth, 1879-1979.

    # 51221

    [State Library of New South Wales]

    Miles Franklin : an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of her birth, 1879-1979.

    / Extended to 17 February. Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney. Sydney : SLNSW, 1979. Foolscap folio, stapled, [12] pp. (last blank); Norman Lindsay drawing of Miles Franklin to front; with brief descriptions of the 96 items in the exhibition (all drawn from the Mitchell Library’s extensive collections), brief contextual essays, …

  • [FEDERATION] Commonwealth Celebrations. Souvenir invitation cards. Victoria. May 1901.

    # 51238

    ASHTON, Julian & Howard; LINDSAY, Norman & LONGSTAFF, John

    [FEDERATION] Commonwealth Celebrations. Souvenir invitation cards. Victoria. May 1901.

    [Cover title]. [Melbourne : s.n., 1901]. Oblong folio (295 x 395 mm), original red pebbled cloth over boards (scattered light staining) with ornamental gilt borders, upper board lettered in gilt; original silk endpapers, first blank with a gift inscription in ink ‘To Willis from Father, as a present for his 21st Birthday. Canterbury, August 1901’; …

  • The D.R. Sheumack Collection : eighty years of Australian painting.

    # 51507

    CHRISTIE, Robyn and MILLER, Justin.

    The D.R. Sheumack Collection : eighty years of Australian painting.

    Compiled by Robyn Christie and Justin Miller. Sydney : Sotheby’s Australia, 1988. Quarto, silver-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (spine sunned, light handling creases), pp. [148], illustrated. Catalogue of one of the finest collection of traditional Australian paintings formed in the past century. Includes works by Norman Lindsay, William Dobell, Tom Roberts, Hans Heysen etc.

  • Twinkle twinkle Southern Cross : the forgotten folklore of Australian nursery rhymes

    # 51506

    HOLDEN, Robert.

    Twinkle twinkle Southern Cross : the forgotten folklore of Australian nursery rhymes

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1992. Oblong quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp 99. Original order form enclosed. Includes works by Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, D. H. Souter etc.

  • Venus in Tullamarine : art, sex, politics and Norman Lindsay

    # 51502

    HURST, Cameron and Jeremy GEORGE (editors)

    Venus in Tullamarine : art, sex, politics and Norman Lindsay

    / with contributions from Ian McLean, Adrain Martin, Cameron Hurst, Jeremy George, James Nguyen, Soo-Min Shim. [Cover title]. Small octavo (175 x 105 mm), illustrated wrappers, pp. 152; an as-new copy. ‘Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) was a prolific, popular, and controversial Australian artist. He is best known for his children’s book The Magic Pudding (1918) and …

  • The Julian Ashton Book

    # 51501

    ASHTON, Julian

    The Julian Ashton Book

    Sydney : Art in Australia, 1920. Quarto, paper wrappers over cards, unpaginated, 28 plates including some tipped-in colour plates, essays by Norman Lindsay, Grace Crowley, W. Hardy Wilson, Chris Brennan, Lionel Lindsay and Charles Lloyd Jones. Presentation copy to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald inscrinbed on the front free endpaper by the publisher.

  • The Hill of Content : books, art, music, people. (Signed copy)

    # 51497

    SPENCER, A.H.

    The Hill of Content : books, art, music, people. (Signed copy)

    Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1959. First edition. Octavo, boards with pictorial dust jacket, pp 246, illustrated, light foxing. Reminiscences of the legendary Melbourne bookstore, with much content on Norman Lindsay and his family. Inscribed by the shop’s owner A.H. Spencer on front endpaper to K. V. McClelland.

  • The Satyricon and poems.

    # 51495

    PETRONIUS, Gaius; LINDSAY, Jack; LINDSAY, Norman

    The Satyricon and poems.

    London : Elek Books, 1960. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (corners bumped, a little marked and a couple of short tears), pp. 223, illustrations by Norman Lindsay, a couple of leaves loose.

  • Faces and places. With drawings by Norman Lindsay

    # 51492

    LINDSAY, Jack

    Faces and places. With drawings by Norman Lindsay

    Toronto : Basilike, 1974. Octavo, quarter cloth with lettered label on spine over marbled papered boards, Norman Lindsay illustrations. Limited to 350 copies.

  • Songs of love and life

    # 51491

    CROSS, Zora

    Songs of love and life

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1917. Second edition, reprint (published the same year as the first). Octavo, decorated cloth (slightly flecked), illustrated endpapers by Sydney Ure Smith, portrait frontispiece, pp. [viii]; 152; [4 – advertisements, dated November 1917], a few minor spots of foxing. Loosely enclosed : the upper panel of the very rare original …

  • A Lindsay Miscellany : Norman, Lionel, Ruby, Philip & Mary and other members of the family.

    # 51462

    CHAPLIN, Harry F.

    A Lindsay Miscellany : Norman, Lionel, Ruby, Philip & Mary and other members of the family.

    First editions, inscribed copies, autograph letters, manuscripts and other material associated with the lives and work based on the collection of and annotated by Harry F. Chaplin. Sydney : Wentworth Books, 1978. Quarto, textured wrappers, pp. 125, portrait frontispiece of Ruby Lindsay, detailed catalogue with lengthy personal annotations of the unique Chaplin collection.

  • Norman Lindsay : His books, manuscripts and autograph letters in the library of, and annotated by Harry F. Chaplin.

    # 51461

    CHAPLIN, Harry

    Norman Lindsay : His books, manuscripts and autograph letters in the library of, and annotated by Harry F. Chaplin.

    Foreword by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Wentworth Press, 1969. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 90. A very good copy. With a signed presentation inscription from Walter Stone on the title page.