The etchings of Norman Lindsay

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

Limited edition

London : Constable Co., 1927. Folio, gilt-lettered blue buckram (a little marked, spine faded, lower corner bumped), top edge gilt, 45 leaves of plates with accompanying title leaf, each a fine photogravure reproduction of a Norman Lindsay etching, occasional foxing. Limited to 129 copies of which 120 were for sale, signed and numbered by Norman Lindsay. A de luxe edition of 31 copies with the original etching Your Fate was also issued. The etchings of Norman Lindsay , published in lavish large format, was admired by Lindsay himself as a facsimile perfect as reproduction can be (from a 1938 letter to Andrew Watt), and [it] remains one of the most tantalising collections of his work (BLOOMFIELD, Lin. The complete etchings of Norman Lindsay, Odana 1998, p 65). Lindsay s popularity in the 1920s had risen meteorically, so that the very restricted print run of only 160 copies over two editions fell far short of the market s demands. The book sold out a month prior to publication, dissapointing many prominent collectors including Howard Hinton in New England. Only a handful of copies made it to Austraila, due to it selling out in London, as well as the fact that Australian customs held the two copies sent to Gill s Fine Art Society on the grounds that it was an immoral publication. Bloomfield notes that many copies have been broken to sell the plates: as early as 1938 the reproductions were selling for 21 shilling each, prompting her to observe that The Etchings of Norman Lindsay h

• Binding: Hardcover

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