Heemskerck Shoals (Ingleton copy)

written by Robert D. FitzGerald ; and decorated by a map and fifteen designs after drawings done by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Fern Tree Gully Lower, Vic. : Mountainside Press [hand-printed by John T. Kirtley], [1949]. Edition limited to 85 copies, this being no. 33, one of the 75 standard copies printed on Georgian semi-rag paper, signed on the colophon by the author of this poem about Abel Tasman, Fitzgerald, and the illustrator, Ingleton; and the printer John Kirtley. Large folio, [21] pp, 15 illustrations including map, unbound as issued, housed in a custom holding solander box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, morocco spine lettered in gilt, light wear. Copies were originally issued unbound in flat sheets, the choice of binding being left to the owner. A fine copy.

Reference: Farmer, Geoffrey. A true printer : John Kirtley and Heemskerck Shoals. Studies in Australian bibliography, number 32. Sydney : Book Collectors’ Society of Australia, 1990.

Provenance:

The estate of the late Nicholas Ingleton, son of the illustrator Geoffrey Ingleton, his bookplate loosely enclosed reproducing the illustration by his father on the title page.