Norman Lindsay & Family

  • Woodcut book-plates (deluxe edition)

    # 48742

    BARNETT, P. Neville (1881-1953)

    Woodcut book-plates (deluxe edition)

    Foreword by Lionel Lindsay. Sydney : Privately printed [The Beacon Press], 1934. Small quarto, original marbled paper boards, vellum spine with black lettering, illustrated dustjacket (lightly foxed, a couple of short chips with loss to foot of spine), marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, pp. 240, illustrated throughout with examples of woodcut bookplates, for the most …

  • Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (Deluxe edition)

    # 48733

    Barnett, P. Neville

    Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (Deluxe edition)

    Sydney: The Beacon Press, 1931. Quarto, presentation binding (most likely by Wal Taylor) of half crushed morocco over silk, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt lettering, silk endpapers, book label of Gregory Cumming ti front pastedown, 144pp., light foxing to preliminaries, with numerous original and reproduced bookplates by notable Australian artists including Sydney …

  • Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (Deluxe edition)

    # 50079

    Barnett, P. Neville

    Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (Deluxe edition)

    Sydney: The Beacon Press, 1931. Quarto, publisher’s cloth (edges rubbed), hinges cracked, previous owner’s name to front pastedown, 144pp., with numerous original and reproduced bookplates by notable Australian artists including Sydney Long (signed etching), Sydney Ure Smith, Adrian Feint, John Godson, Gayfield Shaw, Tom Roberts, Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Perrotet, etc. The deluxe edition, printed …

  • Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (in a presentation binding by Wal Taylor)

    # 48728

    Barnett, P. Neville

    Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (in a presentation binding by Wal Taylor)

    Sydney: The Beacon Press, 1931. Octavo, presentation binding by Wal Taylor of full crushed morocco, ruled in gilt, spine slightly faded, lettered in gilt with presentation name J. F. T. Mitchell at foot, silk endpapers, 144pp., with numerous original and reproduced bookplates by notable Australian artists including Sydney Long (original etching), Sydney Ure Smith, Adrian …

  • Fun with book-plates.

    # 48736

    BARNETT, P. Neville, 1881-1953

    Fun with book-plates.

    A souvenir of ‘Australian book-plates’ issued to the author’s guests on the occasion of its first public appearance, May, 1951. Sydney : privately printed [at The Beacon Press], 1951. Quarto, printed wrappers, stringbound, original bookplate for P. Neville Barnett frontispiece (offsetting from glue), pp. 32, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 100 signed and numbered …

  • Norman Lindsay : drawn to women. The complete published etchings

    # 50568

    HAPLEY, Melissa

    Norman Lindsay : drawn to women. The complete published etchings

    Perth, W.A. : Art Gallery of Western Australia, [2006]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (rubbed, light handling marks) , pp. 46, illustrated. Catalogue of exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 15 October 2006 to 14 January 2007.

  • Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.

    # 50502

    [LINDSAY, Norman]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).

    Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.

    Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2008. Quarto, pictorial boards (very small bump to one corner), 335 pages, profusely illustrated; a new copy. During his long creative life Norman Lindsay produced works in many media, but pencil was the only one he used continuously from childhood to old age. The earliest drawing reproduced in this book was …

  • A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

    # 50482

    HAMMOND, Victoria

    A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine slightly sunned, pp. 96, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue of works by female Australian artists between 1840 and 1940. Features an essay by Victoria Hammond. Includes works by May Gibbs, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Grace Crowley, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Ruby Lind, Olive Cotton, Ethel Carrick …

  • Santa Cruz, Toledo (1936) (original etching with accompanying booklet)

    # 50098

    LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)

    Santa Cruz, Toledo (1936) (original etching with accompanying booklet)

    Etching, printed in brown ink, 25.2 x 17.6 cm (plate mark), 322 x 235 mm (paper), mounted at upper hinge to a backing card, old mount burn, light foxing, very good. Loosely enclosed, a contemporary printed caption announcing that the etching is printed exclusively for members of The Society of Print Connoisseurs, November 1946. Accompanied …

  • Australian art exhibition of Norman Lindsay. May, 1937

    # 49053

    LINDSAY, Norman

    Australian art exhibition of Norman Lindsay. May, 1937

    Sydney: Macleod Gallery, 1937. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (a little dusty), 8pp., catalogue of 62 works, eight black and white illustrations, staples rusted, a few light pencil notes, a very good example. Rare.

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Two

    # 49762

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Two

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Bertram Stevens. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (light sunning, some minor chipping), unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, an excellent copy. Includes essay by A.G. Stephens on Henry Lawson; essay by Hugh McCrae titled ‘Book-Weather’; essay by Lionel Lindsay on The …

  • Idyllia

    # 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 …

  • Carmen (presentation copy)

    # 49603

    [LINDSAY] MERIMEE, Prosper

    Carmen (presentation copy)

    Translated by Richard Griffin. With illustrations done in Spain in the summer of MDCCCCII by Lionel Lindsay. Foreword by Peter Lindsay. Sydney : Southern Cross Books, 1984. Quarto, gilt-lettered morocco in dustjacket (discoloured and a little silverfished, tear to tipped-on plate), pp. 61, [19], illustrated. Limited to 250 copies signed by Peter Lindsay (son of …

  • Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books

    # 49318

    O'CONOR, Juliet

    Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books

    Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, corners slightly bumped; gift inscription in biro to front endpaper, pp. 262, thoroughly illustrated. An extensive insight into the history of children’s books in Australia, with detailed sections on great artists and authors such as Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, May Gibbs, Harold Gaze, Pixie …

  • Australian Personal Bookplates

    # 49245

    PEAKE, Andrew

    Australian Personal Bookplates

    Adelaide : Tudor Press, 2000. Quarto, blue cloth, pp. 216, illustrated with numerous bookplates. An excellent modern survey of Australian bookplate artists, with a checklist of over 5000 bookplates created for Australian identities, with commentary. The standard edition.

  • Exhibition. Etchings and water-colours. Norman Lindsay. October 12th to October 22nd 1927

    # 49054

    LINDSAY, Norman

    Exhibition. Etchings and water-colours. Norman Lindsay. October 12th to October 22nd 1927

    Sydney : The Macquarie Galleries, 1927. Duodecimo, lettered wrappers, pp. 4, catalogue of 26 works, a few pencil annotations.