Paris Dreaming (deluxe edition with original etching)

A celebration of a city of imagination. The Paris Drawings of Charles Blackman. Sydney: Reed, 1982. Folio, gilt-decorated and lettered full crushed morocco, top edge gilt, 144pp. light foxing to preliminaries and etching, profusely illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 numbered copies (this is copy number 7) signed by Blackman and Amadio, specially bound in leather and containing an original signed etching ‘La femme de Paris’ created especially for this edition. Loosely enclosed, a signed letter from the publisher Les Lightowler of Reed Publishers valuing the book for insurance purposes. The deluxe edition of one of the most attractive monographs on Blackman, filed with his Paris drawings and with an original artwork from the series.

Rare, only two examples of the deluxe edition appears to be held in Australian libraries (SLQ; SLNSW).