THE BOOKPLATES OF WILLIAM HUNTER, ETCHER.
Pp. [24](last colophon, verso blank), tinted title page vignette, black & white half-title page decoration, plus 5 hand-tipped bookplates (3 signed in pencil by the artist, all with tissue guards); impl. 8vo; brown cloth, coloured pictorial onlay (lightly foxed) on upper board, the spine and edges of boards faded and slightly rubbed, the fore-corners lightly worn; a little foxing; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1943. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies, signed by the artist (40 for sale); this copy out-of-series, not numbered or signed. Ferson 129. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label above the earlier bookplate of K. [Kaz?] Posney on the upper pastedown. Includes a checklist of bookplates by Hunter, 'one of the foremost etchers and water-colorists in Australia' [p. 7]. Item #163635
Price: $1,200.00