Oblation

Sydney: the authors, 1902. Folio, decorated wrappers; 34 pp., illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Light crease and edge wear to wrappers, else a fine example.

Illustrated verse, some first published in The Bulletin, while other poems are published here for the first time.

‘Of this edition 650 copies have been printed on toned paper, numbered, price 3s. 6d.; 99 copies on larger white paper, initialed by the authors, price 5s. each, and 13 special copies, signed by the authors, price £1 1s. each’. This is one of the numbered copies, number 505.

Fragile and rare, printed when Lindsay was 23.

This copy in especially fine condition.