Heemskerck Shoals (Ingleton copy)

A$2,200 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

written by Robert D. FitzGerald ; and decorated by a map and fifteen designs after drawings done by Geoffrey C. Ingleton . Fern Tree Gully Lower, Vic. : Mountainside Press [hand-printed by John T. Kirtley], [1949]. Edition limited to 85 copies, this being no. 33, one of the 75 standard copies printed on Georgian semi-rag paper, signed on the colophon by the author of this poem about Abel Tasman, Fitzgerald, and the illustrator, Ingleton; and the printer John Kirtley. Large folio, [21] pp, 15 illustrations including map, unbound as issued, housed in a custom holding solander box by Sangorski Sutcliffe, morocco spine lettered in gilt, light wear. Copies were originally issued unbound in flat sheets, the choice of binding being left to the owner. A fine copy. Reference: Farmer, Geoffrey. A true printer : John Kirtley and Heemskerck Shoals . Studies in Australian bibliography, number 32. Sydney : Book Collectors Society of Australia, 1990. Provenance: The estate of the late Nicholas Ingleton, son of the illustrator Geoffrey Ingleton, his bookplate loosely enclosed reproducing the illustration by his father on the title page.

• Binding: Hardcover

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