Telephone: (03) 9809 1367 P.O. Box 1178 Facsimile: (03) 9889 0852 Hartwell Victoria 3124 E-mail: [email protected] Australia Web: www.hincebooks.com.au CATALOGUE 118 FINE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS May 2009 Australian art including rare catalogues, limited and signed editions: Norman Linsday, Irena Sibley and Arthur Boyd in deluxe limited editions: a wide selection of John Shirlow publications, original etchings and presentation copies. Fine Literature, Illustrated and Private Press books including signed Virginia Woolf: Eric Gill and Mark Severin with additional plates: Dolmen Press, Eragny Press, and Golden Cockerel Press. Children’s including an exceptional group of early or first edition Beatrix Potter: original golligwog and nursery rhyme artwork. Printing History, and Facsimile Illuminated works. 6. AUSTRALIAN ART 2. Boyd. Sandra McGRATH. The Artist & the River; Ar- thur Boyd and the Shoalhaven. Sydney, Bay Books, 1982. 1. Aboriginal. Rex BATTARBEE. Modern Australian Small folio, colour plates, illustrations throughout, pp. 313, Aboriginal Art. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1951 quarto, publisher’s silk boards in matching slipcase, a fine copy. coloured plates and illustrations, pp.55 + plates, cloth covered Scarce. Limited edition of two hundred numbered copies, boards, slight marks on boards. $2750 signed by Boyd. $600 Scarce. Large paper edition limited to 130 numbered copies, con- taining two additional colour plates, and signed by all the artists. 3. Boyd. Franz PHILIP Arthur Boyd. London, Thames and Hudson, 1967. Quarto, pp. 288, 134 monochrome pls, 44 tipped-in plates in colour, publisher’s cloth with dust-wrapper, minor foxing to endpapers, a very good copy. $200 4. Boyd. Barry PEARCE. Arthur Boyd Retrospec- tive; With contributions by Hendrik Kolenberg, Debo- rah Edwards, Grazia Gunn, exhibition research by Patri- cia R. McDonald. Sydney, Art Gallery of N.S.W., second edition 1994. Quarto, colour and black & white plates, original boards with dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $80 Paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics. 5. Boyd. Ursula HOFF. The Art of Arthur Boyd. London, Andre Deutsch, 1986.Tall quarto, 202 illustrations (many in colour), pp. 247, chronology, bibliography and list of exhbi- tions, original cloth gilt with dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $90 6. Blamire Young. Helen E. WALLACE. Magic Case- ments. Melbourne, Brown,Prior & Co. P/L, 1926. Octavo, pp.104, covered boards, gilt front and spine, dust-wrap- per with minor chips to inner rear, very good copy. $230 With 3 plates from watercolours by Blamire Young, limited deluxe edition of 1000 copies signed by Wallace and Young. 7. James Edge-Partington. Australasian Prints, Draw- ings, Etc in the Collection of J. Edge-Partington, Esq., Bea- consfield. Privately Printed, 1926. Octavo, pp. 42 (last blank), unillustrated, original wrappers in later half morocco. Rare and important. $400 8. Perceval. Traudi ALLEN. John Perceval. Melbourne Uni- versity Press, 1992. Quarto, colour and black & white plates, pp. 185, blue boards with pictorial colour onlay, a fine copy. $200 9. Ann Gilmore Carter illustrates Shaw DESMOND. Tales of the Little Sisters of Saint Francis; With wood- engravings by Ann Gillmore Carter. London, Grant Rich- ards & Humphrey Toulmin at the Cayme Press, 1929. Oc- tavo, illustrations, pp. 322, a good copy in original cloth, the illustrated dust-wrapper smoke-stained. $400 Anne Gillmore Carter attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in the mid to late 1920s, where she studied wood engraving with Noel Rooke. As well as illus- trating this collection of poetry and Irish folk tales, she did wood engravings for the Mandrake Press Book of Tobit (1929). Shortly after her marriage in 1937 she moved to Australia, living first in Sydney where she exhibited with the Society of Artists, and later in Victoria’s western district, where she was a member of an art group called The Gropers. 12. Norman LINDSAY. Exhibition of Norman Lindsay’s Watercolours and Etchings, opened by Lady Moulden. Ad- elaide, The Dunster Galleries, 1926. Quarto, tipped in colour and black & white plates, decorative initials in purple, tied with gold tassel in original imitation lizard-skin stiffened wrappers. A fine copy. $850 Limited edition of thirty-five copies on hand-made pa- per: this is copy number two of the twenty-five cop- ies for sale, numbered and signed by Norman Lindsay. Printed at the Hassell Press 10. Donald FRIEND. The Life and Surprising Adventures of Blue-eyed Patty, the valiant female soldier ... [Melbourne], The Croft Press, 1979. Octavo, illustrations by Donald Friend, a fine copy in illustrated stiffened wrappers. $295 Limited edition of 250 numbered copies, signed by Donald Friend, printed on rag paper. 11. Norman LINDSAY. The Pen Drawings Of Norman Lindsay. Special Number of Art in Australia. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1918. Folio, frontispiece portrait and 55 tipped-in black & white plates with captioned tissue- guards, title-page in red and black, original semi-limp wrap- pers, in folding cloth case as issued (minor flecking), fine. $7700 Rare deluxe issue limited to 35 numbered copies signed by Lindsay. This is the first special number produced by Aus- tralia’s best known art periodical, Art in Australia, es- tablished with the aim of making the work of local art- ists better known to the Australian public. This striking edition de luxe moves outside the role of educating, and makes the book in itself an object of artistic expression. 13. Norman LINDSAY. Tales from the Heptamer- 17. John SHIRLOW. The “Melbourne Set” : Etchings. on of Marguerite of Navarre; Twenty-Eight Pen Draw- Melbourne, Vidler, 1920. Large folio, six leaves of tipped-in ings by Norman Lindsay. Melbourne University Press, original etched plates, each signed and numbered in pencil 1976. Quarto, pp. viii+ 153, cloth blind stamped, with by Shirlow, with printed caption labels, laced in cloth-backed dust-wrapper in original glassine fronted box. $170 original boards, lettered in gilt. $3500 Edition limited to 1000 copies (#919). Introduction by A. D. Edition limited to 80 numbered copies, signed by the artist: a Hope. fine and rare work. The etchings, which vary in size, include city streets, the Wesley Church spire, Melbourne from the East, and Melbourne from the West. This is the R. M. Chirn- 14. Ruby Lindsay illustrates Charles BARRETT. From side copy, with his bookplate: an original Shirlow etched book- Range to Sea : A Bird Lover’s Ways. Melbourne, Thomas plate, signed in pencil by the artist. C. Lothian, 1907. Octavo, illustrations, pp. 62 + vi, sta- pled pictorial wrappers illustrated by Ruby Lindsay. $220 First edition of the author’s first book. 18. John SHIRLOW. Original etched copper plate for an invitation to an exhibition of Shirlow etchings at F.W.Preece’s bookshop, 34 King William Street, Adelaide, 15. John PERCEVAL. McGREGOR, Ken (compiler). Fif- on Monday, 10th October (no year given). The plate is ty Years of Perceval Drawings. Sydney, Bay Books, 1989. about 9.5 x 11 cm., and is ornamented with an etched Quarto, pp. 256, 241 plates (40 in colour), white boards, with water-front view, presumably of Port Adelaide. $750 dust-wrapper, a fine copy. $90 In R.H.Croll’s I Recall (p.57), he recounts that Shirlow had attached to his will a letter directing Croll (his ex- ecutor) to destroy his entire collection of copper and zinc plates 16. Tom Roberts. Robert Henderson CROLL. Tom except four, which were Croll’s property “to do with as you like”. Roberts; Father of Australian Landscape Painting. Mel- bourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1935. Octavo, portraits This Croll did : “I have never had a more distasteful job ...”. and six tipped-in plates in colour, pp. 231, original two- Accordingly the original plates are rare indeed. However toned cloth, complete with uncommon dust-wrapper. $600 Croll was perhaps not as good as his word, at least on this Limited edition of 60 presentation copies (within overall limi- occasion, because Robert Littlewood was able to assemble tation of 350), signed by the author and Mrs. Roberts: scarce. ten of the original plates, from which he printed in 2005 his Lytlewode Press publication John Shirlow. Ten Etchings. 19. John SHIRLOW. The “Melbourne Set” : Etch- ings. Melbourne, Vidler, 1920. Large folio, six leaves of tipped-in original etched plates, each signed and numbered in pencil by Shirlow, with printed caption labels, laced in cloth-backed original boards, lettered in gilt. $3500 Edition limited to 80 numbered copies, signed by the art- ist: a fine and rare work. The etchings, which vary in size, include city streets, the Wesley Church spire, Mel- bourne from the East, and Melbourne from the West. This copy, bearing Shirlow’s bookplate, is a presenta- tion copy from the artist to R. H. Croll, with a signed inscription in pencil on the title-page, dated 1st Octo- ber 1920. Loosely inserted is a two-page Shirlow manu- script note, signed, apparently written on request for a local bookseller and extolling the virtues of an early nine- teenth century book of steel engraved prints in his stock. 20. John SHIRLOW. R. H. CROLL. The Etched Work of John Shirlow; Selected reproductions in half-tone of John Shirlow’s handicraft, Biography by R. H. Croll. Melbourne, Al- exander McCubbin, n.d. (1920). Quarto, original quarter roan (spine rubbed and chipped) with titling label, boards, tipped- in plates, frontispiece etching signed by the artist. $650 The de-luxe issue of 100 numbered copies (No.18) containing an original etching. With the bookplate of R. H. Croll. 21. John SHIRLOW. R. H. CROLL. The Etched Work of John Shirlow; Selected reproductions in half-tone of John Shirlow’s handicraft; Biography by R. H. Croll. Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, n.d. (1920). Quarto, original quar- ter roan with titling label, boards, tipped-in plates, frontis- piece etching signed by the artist, a very good copy.