Lloyd Rees drawings (deluxe edition)

Sydney : John Brackenreg, Australian Artist Editions at Artarmon Galleries, 1978. Limited De Luxe edition of 100 copies prepared for collectors, numbered and signed by the artist (no. 56), with an original soft-ground etching, signed by Lloyd Rees, titled Deloraine, Tasmania (the plates were destroyed after printing by the Port Jackson Press, North Sydney), foreword by Professor Joseph Burke. Oblong quarto, full leather binding (edges rubbed), 128 pp, b/w and colour plates.

Provenance: Private collection, Sydney; acquired from The Pat Corrigan Collection of art related books, letters and photographs, paintings and drawings, Sotheby’s Melbourne, 29 April 1998, lot 248.