Pictorial book-plates : their origin and their use in Australia (in a presentation binding by Wal Taylor)

A$750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Sydney: The Beacon Press, 1931. Octavo, presentation binding by Wal Taylor of full crushed morocco, ruled in gilt, spine slightly faded, lettered in gilt with presentation name J. F. T. Mitchell at foot, silk endpapers, 144pp., with numerous original and reproduced bookplates by notable Australian artists including Sydney Long (original etching), Sydney Ure Smith, Adrian Feint, John Godson, Gayfield Shaw, Tom Roberts, Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Perrotet, etc. Printed at the Beacon Press. The standard edition, limited to 300 signed copies, this is number 77.

• Binding: Hardcover

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