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Cat 400, Item 13 LE CAIN, Erroll (Illustrator) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. ONE OF 100 COPIES. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Illustrations by Erroll Le Cain. Calligraphy by David Howells. Paper by Philip H.Rowson. Lond. The Arcadia Press. 1972. Folio. Hand-bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter vellum with seaweed paper sides. 55pp. t.e.g. Calligraphic text on seaweed paper pages. Ten striking tipped-in colour plates by Erroll Le Cain. No.50 of 110 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, the calligrapher and the paper-maker. Fine in the slip-case. Particularly scarce. |
Cat 400, Item 10 KING, Jessie M. (Illustrator) THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE AND OTHER POEMS. By William Morris. Lond. John Lane. The Bodley Head. Or.cl. with gilt Jessie King illustration on the front board and gilt spine decoration. 310pp. t.e.g. uncut. Frontispiece and 24 Jessie King plates, plus line illustrations & head and tail pieces throughout. 1st ed. thus. Very Scarce. |
Cat 400, Item 44 MAX DUPAIN. Biographical note by Jill White. Introductory tribute by David Moore. Syd. Richard King. Print Room Press 1991. Oblong 4to. Bound by Helen Wadlington in quarter morocco & lettered paper sides. unpag. 80 tipped-in photographic plates by Max Dupain. A few spots on foredge else Fine. 1st ed. Edition of 110 copies, this number 66, signed by Max Dupain. In the slip-case. With an original photographic print, "Orchid 1983", signed by Max Dupain. Scarce. Published to celebrate Max Dupain's 80th birthday. |
Cat 400, Item 34 GRAY, Anne. SYDNEY LONG: THE SPIRIT OF THE LAND. Canberra. NGA Publishing. 2012. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 208pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine copy. Richard King's copy, this inscribed to Richard by Anne Gray, Head of Australian art at the NGA, thanking him for the use of his research material for the exhibition and for loan of an item for the exhibition. With the Richard King bookplate by David Wansborough. |
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