'Painting with great facility, often with the square brushstrokes made popular by Streeton, and greatly assisted by his success in winning Archibald prizes, he made his name as a portrait painter. His landscapes have a poetic feeling and reflect the charm and sensitiveness that won him the affection of his students at the National Gallery of Victoria School' (McCulloch).

Signed copy of 'A Book of Picture Stories' by Mary and Elizabeth Durack. The 'Nungalla and Jungalla' comic strips in three parts: the magic bone, the young white chief, and the great drought.

In lovely original condition this Victorian scrapbook is composed entirely of cotton sheets hemmed with variously coloured wools. Each page has been carefully decorated with illustrations - mostly of children at play, and with their mothers - clipped from contemporary publications. Unique.

First edition. Examines the emergence of the "Hermannsburg School of Native Painting". Chapters on the following Aboriginal artists of historical significance: Albert Namatjira, Edwin, Otto and Reuben Pareroultja, Walter Ebatarinja, Enos, Ewald and Oscar Namatjira, Henoch Raberaba & Richard Moketarinja.

With woodcut vignettes by Lionel Lindsay. A curious and at times vitriolic series of meditations upon modern life and culture by the esteemed NSW Chief Justice. The book begins 'Cinematography, as it is now used, exercises perhaps the most debasing of influences on modern civilization..."

One of the fine early art books published by Art in Australia in the 1920s. Featuring work by Margaret Preston, Arthur Streeton and Lloyd Rees among others.

Limited edition of Kipling's observations of Japan. An immaculately preserved copy in a unique gilt binding with the original wrappers bound in.

Highlights from each region's pavilion at the International Colonial Exhibition, Paris 1931. Extremely scarce.

Standard de-luxe edition of 160 copies (total issue of 200 copies). Quarto, tipped colour plates throughout; original cream cloth, a fine copy.

Edition limited to 100 numbered copies: Sir Ernest Scott's copy with signature on front endpaper.

Bound in the original illustrated wrappers, 245mm x 320mm, colour frontis and 24 full-page colour illustrations; a few marks on wrappers, occasional slight foxing otherwise a fine copy.

A beautiful copy of Lindsay's famous work covering the meaning of life and art, drawing on philosophical concepts. Signed on front endpaper by Lindsay with a full page original etching tipped in.

A generously illustrated selection of fine literary and artistic talent.

A unique copy inscribed and fully signed by Lionel Lindsay 'Dear Suzanne and Harold. As many of the woodcuts in this edition were too heavily inked I have printed them on Japanese paper, similar to those in the limited editon and laid them down. Wahroonga 29 Feb 1960.'

The first serious study of Australian bohemian Charles Conder, widely considered a significant art noveau artist, and published four years after his death

Dynamic publication of the Victorian Artists Society featuring a wide range of reviews and editorials which provide an excellent insight into the Australian art scene of the 1940s.

Being a reconstruction of his 'lost' book on their customs and habits, and on his role in the Roving Parties and the Black Line. Jorgensen had numerous contacts with the Tasmanian Aborigines during his long and varied career. He attempted to describe their customs and habits during the period of mass extermination. The book was announced for publication in 1837 but the manuscript was assumed lost until it surfaced in the Mitchell Library over 150 years later. The text is reproduced in this book. Limited edition of 1000 copies.

Features 96 buildings from 56 architectural firms representing the diversity of modern Australian architecture in both rural and urban contexts.

Standard de-luxe edition of 160 copies (total issue of 200 copies). Quarto, tipped colour plates throughout; original cream cloth, a fine copy.

Based on the definitive six-volume Pageant of Japanese Art edited by members of the Tokyo National Museum, this book covers the entire spectrum of Japanese creative arts from architecture to textiles.

Carefully planned study of Japanese art demonstrating the stylistic changes through time of painting, bronze and wood sculpture, metalwork, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, architecture etcetera. The book is divided into two parts; the first providing a detailed overview of the history of Japanese art practices, the second acting as a guide to specific works and temples in existence at the time of publication.

With an essay by James MacDonald and some remarks on Australian art by the artist.

Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated Whiteley monograph, includes a chronology and catalogue of works.

Artices of interest include: Sir Keith Murdoch meditates on the arts Margaret Preston on Aboriginal art (illustrated article) Daryl Lindsay, Hal Missingham and Bernard Smith on Australian exhibitions Frank Medworth on art education Daphne Mayo on the Brisbane scene

Articles of interest include: Obituary of Eric Wilson by Douglas Dundas Silk Screen Printing and How to Do It by Margaret Preston Frank Medworth on art education Bernard Smith on art criticism.

Prints of Australia from the last third of the 18th century, until the present time

Standard art reference for the first thirty years of European settlement: detailed chapters on Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans and further discussion on other artists 1800-1821.

A survey of modern art in Australia with a biographical index of artists.

Scarce first Australian edition. Detailed account of Arnhem land art and artefacts: both authors were leading anthropologists and their analysis of the images remains within social and technological frameworks. Loosely inserted small photograph of Aboriginal warrior-theme artwork (wooden relief with shield and figure) dated 1951.

The artistic, historical and artistic influences upon the landscape art of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia with an introduction to the ways in which nature and art may be linked in painting. Foreword by Manning Clark, preface by John Olsen.

Landscapes by Australian painters with text by Colin Simpson. From the series Australian Artist Editions. In the introduction Simpson states his concern with the landscape itself, rather than man's impact on it and vice versa. The selection of images reflects this desire, resulting in a beautiful and informative book.

Each colour plate is accompanied by a short biographical entry on the artists: a succinct introduction to the established masters of Australian painting.

Features the bookplate designs of P. Roach Pierson, Harold Byrne, D.H. Souter, J.C. Goodchild, G. C. Ingleton, Eirene Mort, Douglas Pratt, S. M. Miller, George Perrottet, Ethleen Palmer, Adrian Feint, Helen Ogilvie, L. Roy Davies, Nora Young, Audrey de Rose, Erica Hosking, Fred C. Britton, Eric Thake and others. Limited edition of 250 copies.

With words by Roger Williamson. Evocative watercolour paintings capture the Australian seasons.

Illustrates a range of works from Old Masters to newly acquired paintings by Elioth Gruner, Charles Wheeler, Hugh Ramsay, George Lambert and others.

With an appreciation by Bertram Stevens.

Includes an essay by the author 'Simple Principles of the Process of Engraving and Etching' explaining the technical processes behind the techniques.

Foreword by John Rowell. Introductory text by H. Vivian Taylor, F.R.A.I.A.

Defintive monograph on Dobell with high quality image production by an artist and critic of considerable significance.

Reproducing fifteen plates in colour with an essay by Joseph Burke. Carefully produced study of Drysdale's work, with a full list of works and their known owners compiled by the artist.

First deluxe edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. The three tipped colour plates are by William Blamire Young, the Cambridge graduate and mathematics teacher from the Blue Mountains who became noted for his watercolours: 'poster-like, romantic, poetic and remarkable otherwise for the complexity and their techniques" (McCulloch).

A beautiful book that aims to capture some of the beauty and diversity of the indigenous peoples of New Guinea. The majority of the portraits are taken in the Highlands, showing both ceremonial and day-to-day poses, using only natural lighting in these images.

A rare and beautiful edition of Cocteau's poem ‘Énigme' privately printed at Les Éditions des Rèverbères. The entire text is engraved and includes a frontispiece by Cocteau, signed ‘Jean' in the plate with his familiar five-pointed star. This is number 103 of an edition of 130.

Deluxe Pochoir Edition. The deluxe pochoir edition of Toussaint's erotic Middle Eastern Tales superbly illustrated in Art Deco style by Janine Aghion.

A collection of woodcuts and linocuts by artists associated with the Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press forming comprehensive study of the work of many important print artists including Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Henri Gaudier- Brzeska, and Dora Carrington.

First edition: an attractive set of the complete run of the most important and notorious British "magazine" of the 1890s. A journal of art and literature designed to sell high culture, it became a magnet for avant-garde writers and illustrators. Today it is considered a "herald of modernity". Certainly its most famous contributor, whose name is always linked with the Yellow Book, was Aubrey Beardsley, however other design contributors included Patten Wilson, D. Y. Cameron, Mabel Dearmer, J. Illingworth Kay, Nellie Syrett, Ethel Reed and Mabel Syrett. The publication was innovative in style, format, and content, especially in its separation of art and literature, exclusion of advertising (except for the publisher's catalogue), and support of new artists and writers, especially women. Henry Harland was literary editor for the entire run. Beardsley was art editor until just before the publication of Volume V, when he was fired by Lane under severe pressure from several of the firm's more prominent authors following the arrest of Oscar Wilde.

Catalogue of works in the National Gallery of Victoria with short biographies of John Glover, Conrad Martens, Duncan Elphinstone Cooper, G.A. Gilbert, Edward Latrobe Bateman, Eugen von Guerard & Abram-Louis Buvelot.

Essays by Margaret Plant, Patrick McCaughey, Daniel Thomas et al.

The catalogue of a travelling exhibition of the significant nineteenth century visiting artist whose Australian and New Zealand work, sometimes on the heroic scale, is well represented in Australian galleries.

Includes an article on wood engraving by Frank Medworth, extractsfrom Donald Friends war dairy and letters on the role of Art in social reconstruction after the war.