Thirty years of an artist’s life. The career of G. W. Lambert, A.R.A. (With a portrait photograph and autograph letter by Amy Lambert)

A$625 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Sydney: Society of Artists, 1938. Octavo (230 x 165 mm), publisher s cloth over boards with gilt-titled morocco label to spine, in the black-lettered dust jacket; 229 pp., illustrated. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this is no. 51). A fine example. [TOGETHER WITH] (1). Original studio portrait photograph of the author, Amy Absell (Lambert) by The Falk Studios, Sydney, probably taken just before her marriage to George Lambert in 1900, signed by the sitter on the back Amy ; (2). Autograph letter by Amy Lambert, sent from her London residence 42 Peel Street, Notting Hill, dated 14 September 1947, 2 pp., quarto, addressed to a friend Hedy and concerning Amy s attendance at the funeral of a mutual acquaintance with her relative Dulcie (Stainton) (fine). Australian artist George Washington Lambert (1873-1930) married Amelia Beatrice Amy Absell (1872-1963), a retoucher, on 4 September 1900 at St Thomas Church, North Sydney, just two days before the couple left for England.

• Binding: Hardcover

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