Sydney bridge celebrations, 1932

Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1932. Quarto, exquisite modernist illustrated wrappers with silver highlights by Adrian Feint (light handling marks, but fine), pp. 80. illustrated, colour advertisements.

A fine Australian art deco publication which includes reproductions of artworks by Percy Lindsay, Will Ashton, James Randolph Jackson, Sydney Ure Smith, B. E. Mines, J. J. Hilder, Fred Leist, Harold Cazneaux, E. Warner, as well as numerous photographs of Sydney, its beaches, and harbour, including several by Hoppe.

The magnificent cover design by Adrian Feint featuring a bird’s eye view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on upper wrapper, and view from the harbour of the Bridge with advertising emblems for P & O on the lower wrapper, is one of the high points of art deco design in Australia.