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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Support Small Business by buying this book! HARDBACK - Ex-library with usual marks. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . . . . . . . TOC: I. Alexander Hegius (+ 1498) Invectiva in Modos Significandi by J. IJsewijn. // . II. Notes on teh Composition and REception of George Buchanan's Psalm Paraphrases by I. D. McFarlane. // . III. The Theme of Illusion in Ronsard's Sonets Pour Helene and the Variants of teh 1552 Amours by Grahame Castor. // . IV. Some Sources and Techniques of Source Adaptation in the Poetry of Jean-Antoine de Baif by Malcolm Quainton. // . V. The Tragedies of Jacques De La Taille by C. N. Smith. // . VI. A Rare Edition of Amyot's Plutarch by Peter Sharratt.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 316pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Light blue endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. A landmark in Hertfordshire ornithology, describing the distributions of breeding birds in the county and compares them with similar data collected twenty years earlier. …

1st edition. 8vo. xi + 369pp. Pages slightly browned. Original red cloth. Pictorial mauve d/w. with slightly faded spine. Ex libris Michael Farringdon with his ownership inscription to title page. ISBN 0852242328 US$15.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. First U.S. Edition. [1934] 384 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed along extremities; bottom corners bumped. Front inner hinge starting; rear inner hinge cracked. Neat inscription to previous owner on front blank endpaper; pencil notes to front and rear blank endpapers. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Illust. w/ several b/w plates and 9 fold-out maps.…

Hugh McRae Number: a collection of short literary pieces, illustrated by Adrian Feint. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, colour designs by Feint throughout; lower spine end is chipped, otherwise a very good copy.

Of interest: Adrian Lawlor on art critics and criticism. William Moore on new additions to the Sydney gallery. Article on Fred Leist portraits, four plates. Plates of sculptures by Rainer Hoff, George Lambert, Paul Montford and others. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; a very good copy. …

Of interest: Article by Lionel Lindsay on George Lambert (4 pages, colour plate). Art of P.G. C.R.W. Nevinson, review article. Margaret Preston on the art gallery of Wanganui. Percy Leason on Colin Colahan. Sculpture of Harold Parker by William Moore. Biographical article on colonial Gippsland artist William Dexter and his wife Caroline. Royal Doulton ware designed by Frank Brangwyn. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, colour plates, full-page black & white images; rust marks from staples, a very good copy.…

With appreciations by Harold Herbert, Lionel Lindsay and J.S. Macdonald. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, colour plates, full-page black & white images; aside from some mild foxing this is a near-fine copy.

Line maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 561pp, bibliography, index. 24.5 x 16cm. A prior owner's signature front free endpaper, dustjacket trifle rubbed and sunned, a very good hardback copy.

Of interest: James E. Flett by Blamire Young; Louis McCubbin by Harold Herbert; William Rowell by A. Colquhoun; Napier Waller by J.S. MacDonald (two colour plates). Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; spine is chipped, otherwise in very good condition.…

Of interest: J.R. MacGregor collection of Australian art, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates by Arnesby Brown, Matthew Smith, Arthur Streeton, Hans Heysen, George Lambert and others; obituary of Sir John Sulman; report on the Imperial Russian Ballet tour of Australia; Sydney Art School exhibition; special architecture section illustrating commercial interiors of bars and restaurants; Australian theatrical poster designs by Albert Collins; Rembrant etchings in the Melbourne Art Gallery, 8 page article with 4 plates; shorter entry on Meryon etchings in the Melbourne Art Gallery; illustrated article on the architecture of Emil Sodersteen. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates with a cobweb embossed tissue guard, full-page black & white images; some foxing otherwise a very nice clean copy.…

First Edition. Of interest: an elusive watercolour by Richard Parkes Bonnington in the Mitchell Library; report by Blamire Young with a tipped colour late of the painting; 'The Japanese Outlook on Western Art' by A.L. Sadler, six pages; tipped colour plates by Hans Heysen and Sir John Longstaff; four full-page caricatures by George Finey with one page of text; Edith Fry on Fred. Leist, illustrated; open forum on tariffs on Australian artworks, contributors include Norman Lindsay and Datillo Rubbo; literary works by Hugh McRae and Lionel Lindsay. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; rear paper wrapper spearated along the rear edge of the spine, internally, aside from some foxing, this is a very good copy. …

Special Issue - New Trends in Australian Art: tipped colour frontispiece still life by Russell Drysdale; Basil Burdett reports on modern art in Melbourne, twelve pages; Thea Proctor surveys the Sydney scene in seven pages; tipped colour plates reflecting modernist trends by Roger James, Isabel Hunter Tweedle, Grace Cossington-Smith, Enid Cambridge and Roland Wakelin; special architecture section on the new wave in Australian design. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; a near-fine copy.…

Of interest: long article illustrated with colour plates by B.J. Waterhouse on the painting of Robert Johnson and an additional appreciation by Walter Taylor. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, colour plates, full-page black & white images; a near fine copy.

Hugh McRae Number: a collection of short literary pieces, illustrated by Adrian Feint. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, colour designs by Feint throughout; lower spine end is chipped, otherwise a very good copy.

Monograph on the Australian artist best remembered for his brilliant portraiture although his first love was the landscape of the Australian bush. Octavo, decorated wrappers, foxed at the start and the internal staples rusting.

With a long article on John D. Moore by Norman Carter and an appreciation by Basil Burdett, numerous colour and black & white plates. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; staples rusted, lower edge of the pages and plates a little wormed, a good copy.…

Of interest: watercolours by Hans Heysen, tipped colour plate; two tipped colour plates by Percy Leason; Australian Official War Artists, tipped plates by H.S. Power, Fred Leist, Charles Bryant, M. Napier Waller; article on Frances Hodgkins, colour plate; tipped colour plate by Constance L. Mackay 'Chrysanthemums'; Will Dyson's War Drawings by Charles Marriott, five pages text, 9 plates; Norman Lindsay's etchings by Ure Smith, three pages text, two full-page black & white plates 'The Grey Eyed Girl' and 'Who Comes!'; paintings of Hilda Rix Nichols; WW1 poem 'The Four Years' by L. Gellert; short articles on E. Spencer Mackay, Miss Cumbrae Stewart, each with colour plate; long article on Sir William Orpen, two colour plates. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; mild foxing, a fine copy.…

First Edition. Of interest: 'La Poupee' (The Doll) full-page woodcut printed in scarlet by Thea Proctor; 'Hans Heysen's Flower Pieces' by Lionel Lindsay with tipped colour plate; 'The Ornithologist of Cobbitty', seven page story illustrated by the author, Hardy Wilson; 'Sidney Thompson' by Howard Ashton with colour plate; 'Will Ashton' by Lionel Lindsay with colour plate; two page article on Sydney bookbinder, Wal. Taylor, illustrated with two pages of plates; 'Daryl Lindsay' by George Bell; 'E. Phillips Fox' by Lionel Lindsay; with L. Bernard Hall writing on the philosophy of art for public taste. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; a near fine copy.…

Of interest: tipped colour plate 'Derelict' by Norman Lindsay and three black & white drypoint plates: 'Phyllida', 'The Eighties' and 'Panama', also includes a black & white plate of an aquatint titled 'Moonlight Piper'; celebration of Australian printmaking with plates by Sydney Long, Ure Smith, H. van Raalte, T. Friedensen, Eric Scott, Bruce Robertson, E. Warner, John Goodchild, Adrian Feint; two magnificent pencil portraits by Thea Proctor; J.S. Macdonald on Victorian landscape painters. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; wrappers a little browned, some gentle foxing throughout, an excellent copy nonetheless. …

Of interest: Long article by Adrian Lawlor on the dynamics of modern art. Illustrated article on Lionel Lindsay's watercolours. Detailed plates of Australian applied arts and crafts including fabric patterns, a wrought iron fire screen and lamp and ceramics. Tipped colour plate of wrought iron head of Mary Gilmore by Rayner Hoff. Maurice Lambert's relief panels for the Cunard line Queen Mary, illustrated. Lionel Lindsay on the Archibald Prize selections. Russian born Sydney artist Daniel Vassilief (3 plates). Photographically illustrated architectural section featuring a range of minimalist modern interiors. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; 1 cm circular stain on front cover, spine split, a very good copy.…

Of interest: Drawings of Grecian and Chinese Architecture by Hardy Wilson, nine full-page sepia plates; Professor Leslie Wilkinson on the functions of architecture; paintings executed abroad by Will Ashton; notes on Australian typography by Benjamin Fryer six page report with seven full-page plates of samples printed in black and red. An excellent source for the study of Australian graphic design and book arts during the 1930s. Colour plates of Australian cabinet timber veneers with one page of explanatory text. Nine pages of plates illustrating modern Australian furniture designs. Photographically illustrated architecture review, structures range in size from small residences to large city buildings. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; covers a little marked otherwise an unusually fine copy.…

First Edition. Articles and images of interest include a short article with tipped plates on James Muir Auld; A. Radcliffe Brown on Norman Lindsay's watercolours (one page of text with two tipped plates), etchings of Victor Cobb; Julian Ashton on Blamire Young (two colour plates); John Shirlow reviews the marble sculptures of C. Web Gilbert; oil paintings by Max Meldrum; three page article on industrial art in Australia; book review including real tipped plates by Norman Lindsay from Leon Gellert's 'Songs of a Campaign' and another review of Hal Gye's illustrations for 'The Glugs of Gosh' by C.J. Denis. Advertisements include a photographic portrait of Arthur Streeton by May Moore and tipped plate in sepia by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite for Farmer's Barber Shop. Small quarto, original printed wrappers wrapped over blank boards, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; the mildest of discolouration to wrappers, spine chipped with a 5cm separation at base, internally near fine.…