E. G. WATERHOUSE OF ERYLDENE.
With a Foreword by Norman Cowper. Decorated by Paul Jones. Pp. 112(last colophon), hand-tipped frontispiece portrait, plus 16 plates within pagination (2 coloured), pictorial head & tailpieces, title page decoration, pictorial endpapers, list of honours, awards and degrees, index; cr. 4to; qr. dark green buckram, spine lettered in gilt, canvas boards, upper board decorated in gilt, tiny stain to fore-edge of lower board; original glassine wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; The Fine Arts Press, Sydney, 1977. First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies (500 for sale), signed by the author and the artist. *Eben Gowrie Waterhouse (1881-1977) was an Australian language teacher and internationally renowned camellia expert whose home in Sydney, Eryldene, was designed by Hardy Wilson. Item #144197
Price: $60.00