Augustus Earle : travel artist (Australian edition)

: paintings and drawings in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. Canberra : National Library of Australia 1980. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dustjacket (slightly discoloured)), pp. 155, presentation bookplate to endpaper, illustrated throughout with both colour and black & white reproductions of the artist’s works, introduction by G. Chandler, scholarly text by Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones. A very good copy.

The Canberra edition, published simultaneously (but with a different dustjacket) to the Martinborough edition.

From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery of South Australia, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, and Bendigo Art Gallery, signed by him on the endpaper.