Norman Lindsay water colour book.

A$600 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Eighteen reproductions in colour from original watercolours with an appreciation of the medium by Norman Lindsay and a biographical survey of the artist s life and work by Godfrey Blunden. Sydney : The Springwood Press, 1939. Quarto, blind embossed green cloth, green and white dustjacket (lightly rubbed at edges, very small areas of silver fishing), eighteen tipped-in colour plates, lower edge stained green as issued, a crisp, fine copy, housed in the original card slipcase (a little marked). Limited to 1850 copies of which 1820 are for sale. The Second World War interrupted the production of this book and so it is found in two states of dustjacket, a pictorial jacket issued before the war and green lettered jacket, as here, issued on copies sold after production resumed. A fine large format production on thick paper with quality reproductions, this is a particularly good example.

• Binding: Hardcover

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