The pen drawings of Norman Lindsay (deluxe edition)

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Special number of Art in Australia. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith Bertram Stevens. Sydney: Angus Robertson Ltd., 1918. Quarto, quarter cloth over papered boards, rare printed dustjacket (a couple of small chips to head and foot of spine), photographic frontispiece, 55 tipped-in plates, very fine. Limited to 200 copies signed by Norman Lindsay. There was also a trade edition produced in an edition of 2000 copies and a larger format deluxe edition limited to 35 copies. A scarce Lindsay title signed by the artist. Loosely enclosed : two contemporary reviews of the book extracted from The Triad and The Herald. Very rare in the dust jacket, especially in such fine condition.

• Binding: Hardcover

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