Books & Bookplates
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# 34619
MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert
The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 171 pp. extensively illustrated. The definitive reference on Outhwaite, one of Australia’s and Britain’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators. A very good copy of the first edition.
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# 34254
[CAXTON, William, c. 1422 - c. 1491]; HIGDEN, Ranulf, c. 1280 - 1364 (
A leaf from William Caxton’s Polychronicon, printed in 1482.
Westminster : William Caxton, between 2 July and 8 October 1482. Single leaf from Liber Quartus, f. CCii, 37 lines and headline (recto) and 40 lines and headline (verso), 274 x 206 mm (leaf), rubricated in red, with very early marginalia (several red inked notational marks likely done around the time of printing, and a …
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# 33558
ROBINSON, Lionel and Philip
Catalogue of extremely rare and important printed books and ancient manuscripts (signed presentation copy)
London : William H. Robinson Lts, 1948. Quarto, printed boards (discoloured and worn), pp. 200, illustrated including folding plates. Astonishing collection of printed books and manuscripts, too many treasures to list, but including the first book printed in English (Caxton’s Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy, 1475), the earliest known American verse (a broadside ballad …
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# 34496
SCARDAMAGLIA, Amanda
Printed on Stone : the lithographs of Charles Troedel.
Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2020. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 256, illustrated with more than 70 colour prints from the Troedel archive, plus full reproduction of all 24 plates of The Melbourne Album (lithographic views of Melbourne from 1863–1864) plus select images from the New South Wales Album (1878). New copy. Note : the title printed on …
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# 34476
O'CONOR, Juliet
Bottersnikes and other lost things. A celebration of Australian illustrated children’s books
Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 262, thoroughly illustrated. An extensive insight into the history of children’s books in Australia, with detailed sections on great artists and authors such as Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, May Gibbs, Harold Gaze, Pixie O’Harris, Graeme Base etc. An essential reference book.
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# 34312
MEEHAN, Bernard
The Book of Kells
London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 256, illustrated. New copy. The Book of Kells is one of the great treasures of medieval Europe. Produced around 800, it presents a text of the Gospels employing decoration that is not only extraordinarily rich and colourful but also, in places, deeply …
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# 34307
BERNIERE, Vincent and PRIMOIS, Mariel
Sex Press : the Sexual Revolution in the Underground Press, 1963-1979
New York : Abrams, 2012. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 240, illustrated. New copy. From 1965 to 1975, an array of journals, magazines, fanzines, and underground presses were the voice of a dramatic sexual revolution. In Europe and the United States, this “sex press” consisted of publications such as Other Scenes, Yellow Dog, Actuel, Suck, The …
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# 33893
BARNETT, P. Neville
Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia
Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The standard edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the author. Quarto, papered boards in dust jacket (slightly foxed), 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some of which are original graphics tipped-in; a fine copy of this magnificent showcase of Australian bookplates. Artists include Norman Lindsay, Adrian Feint, …
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# 33810
CRAIG, Clifford
The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land
Launceston : Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards, x, 172 pp, illustrated with black and white plates, a very good copy. The Geoffrey Ingleton copy, with his bookplate and catalogue number.
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# 33534
MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert
The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1996. First paperback edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 171 pp. extensively illustrated. The definitive reference on Outhwaite, one of Australia’s and Britain’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators. A very good copy of the first paperback edition, first published in 1985.
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# 33021
FEILDING, Thomas H. (compiler); AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. TRUSTEES.
Catalogue of the Library of the Australian Museum.
Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1883. Octavo (230 mm), original printed wrappers (both wrappers stained; upper wrapper chipped at corners and fore-edge; lower wrapper with loss at corners and fore-edge), spine with later paper reinforcement; pp 178; marginal water staining (not affecting text), otherwise contents clean and sound.
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# 33101
LISTRI, Massimo
The world’s most beautiful libraries
Die schönsten Bibliotheken der Welt / Les plus belles bibliotheques du monde. Massimo Listri ; text by Georg Ruppelt & Elisabeth Sladek ; English translation: Karen Williams ; French translation: Aude Fondard. Cologne : Taschen, 2018. Folio, 395 x 290 mm, illustrated boards in dustjacket, in publisher’s original mailing box, weighs 7 kgs. New copy. …
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# 33100
CAMPBELL, James and PRYCE, Will
The Library
London : Thames & Hudson, 2020. Quarto, pictorial boards, gilt-lettered cloth spine, pp. 328, extensively and lavishly illustrated. New copy. ‘Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world and from the beginnings of writing to the present day. …
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# 33056
CALAHAN, April et al.
Fashion and the Art of Pochoir : the Golden Age of illustration in Paris
London : Thames & Hudson, 2015. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 240, illustrated. New copy. The 1910s and 1920s witnessed an outpouring of luxury publications that used a hand-stencilling technique known as pochoir (French for ‘stencil’). The highly refined and painterly technique, which consists of applying layers of gouache paint or watercolour to achieve bold blocks …
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# 33004
LAULAURIE, Louise Rogers
Matisse : The Books
London : Thames & Hudson, 2020. Quarto, lettered cloth, pp. 320, illustrated. New copy. The livre d’artiste, or ‘artist’s book’, is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the greatest artists to work in this genre, creating his most important books over a period of eighteen years from …
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# 23068
[LINDSAY].
The Fanfrolico Press
London : The Fanfrolico Press, Spring 1929. Small folio, lettered grey wrappers (a little marked and foxed)), 12 pp., illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Includes a list of books available for sale, a bibliography of titles published to date, and forthcoming publications. With out the ‘A note for collectors’ slip detailing Norman Lindsay’s etchings sometimes found …