Satyrs & Sunlight : Silvarum Libri (Augusta Helen McCrae’s copy)

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

With pictures and decorations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney: John Sands Ltd, 1909. Folio, quarter-vellum and decorated papered boards (edges rubbed, spine dulled, loss to some lettering to upper panel), 149 pp., includes twenty-one full-page plates and numerous vignette illustrations; text pages with foxing. Limited to 130 copies, signed and numbered by McCrae (this copy is not numbered or signed, however). The plates include eight tipped-in original Norman Lindsay sepia-toned lithographs, each signed by the artist in the image. Provenance: Augusta Helen McCrae, the author s mother, signed by her on the half-title.

• Binding: Hardcover

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