Artist and Illustrator. Pp. 192, 8 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and numerous illustrations, works of reference, index; cr. 4to; blue cloth, lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, tiny stain to back panel, edges slightly rubbed and split; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Schocken Books, New York, 1980. First..... More
, Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury. Based on the account of William fitzStephen his clerk, with additions from other contemporary sources translated and edited by George Greenaway. Illustrations from an early thirteenth century French verse life of Becket. Pp. 172, 8 plates, armorial endpapers, appendix, index; roy. 8vo;..... More
Edited and with an introduction by Iain Bain. With numerous wood-engravings and watercolours by the author. Pp. 192, 16 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait, title page vignette and text illustrations, glossary; qr. dark brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow papered boards, upper board with vignette..... More
A Biography of William Blake. Pp. xxviii+532, 72 plates (36 coloured in part or whole), black & white pictorial half-title and title pages, text illustrations, coloured pictorial endpapers, full page genealogies, appendices, endnotes, addenda, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; published for the Paul Mellon..... More
Pictor Ignotus. With selections from his poems and other writings. Illustrated from Blake's own works, in facsimile by W. J. Linton, and in photolithography; with a few of Blake's original plates. Preface by Anne Gilchrist. In two volumes. Pp. xvi+390(last colophon)+viii+268, 51 plates (including frontispiece portrait with tissue guard Volume..... More
A biography of Field Marshall Sir Thomas Blamey, GBS, KCB, CMG, ED. Foreword by Sir Robert Menzies. Pp. xviii+416(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, plus 24 plates, appendix, select bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, small indentation in bottom edges; dust wrapper, worn and a little soiled..... More
Pp. xii+1,008, 16 coloured plates, text maps, notes, bibliography, index; thick med. 8vo; qr. green cloth, beige papered boards; dust wrapper; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2015. First edition. More
Revised and abridged from the larger work. Illustrated. Pp. [iv]+316, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 5 plates, text decorations (head & tailpieces, initials); cr. 8vo; school prize binding in full calf, spine decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with decorative gilt border and edges, gilt crest of..... More
Pp. [viii]+416, appendices, bibliography; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Continuum, London, 2001. First edition thus. *Edmund Campion was originally published by Longman, in 1935; Ronald Knox was first published by Chapman & Hall in 1959. More
Autobiography. As told to Eileen and Robert Mason Pollock. Pp. xiv+338(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 32 plates, index; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, with a couple of tiny chips; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Cassell, London, 1960. First edition. More
The Life and Work of Alan Rowland Chisholm (1888-1981). Foreword by Wallace Kirsop. Pp. xviii+220(last blank), coloured frontispiece portrait, 7 full page black & white illustrations, list of works cited, further reading, index; dust wrapper; Ancora Press, Melbourne, 2019. First edition, limited to 200 copies. *Posthumously published biography of one..... More
A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill. Pp. svi+624, 32 plates, text map, pictorial endpapers, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; maroon boards, spine lettered in white, edges very slightly bruised; dust wrapper; Little Bottom Press, London, 2011. First edition. *The..... More
A Biographical Companion. Pp. xxviii+368(last blank), illustrated, chronology, bibliography, index; cr. 4to; pictorial laminated boards, lightly scuffed; ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 2002. First edition. *The David Levine copy, with his book label on upper pastedown. More
Being a Sketch of the Life of Timothy Claxton, Written by Himself. Together with Miscellaneous Papers. Pp. [ii]+vii+[7](brief biography by Jim Lowden, plus Claxton's will)+160+10(advertisements), text figures; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; Lowden Publishing Co., Melbourne, 2006. First edition. The Mechanics Series: No. 1. *Timothy Claxton (1790-1848) founded..... More
In two volumes, comprising: Volume I: From ingenue to libertine, 1873-1913. Pp. xvi+368(last blank), 8 plates, notes, index; Volume II: From baroness to woman of letters, 1912-1954. Pp. xii+298+[10](colophon and blanks), 8 plates, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; qr. cream cloth, spines lettered in gilt, grey papered boards, with..... More
The story of Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean and his four voyages westward to the Indies according to contemporary sources. Pp. 208(last colophon), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, the title page printed in red & black, printed endpapers, chronology, bibliography, index; demy 4to; cream cloth..... More
Pp. [xii]+194(last blank), pictorial endpapers, double page map, bibliographical notes; post 8vo; purple cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2001. First U.K. edition. *'Charts Dante's life from his early days as a young soldier fighting for Florentine democracy to his active involvement in..... More
A biography. In two volumes. Pp. xvi+346+viii+347-696(last blank), 18 plates (including frontispiece to each volume), title pages printed in red/brown & black, appendices, references, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dark green cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrappers, a trifle soiled and creased, edges lightly rubbed and split;..... More
Australia's Radical Genius. Pp. xvi+448, 8 coloured plates, numerous black & white illustrations (several full page), select bibliography, notes, index; f'cap. 4to; cream papered boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, the backstrip slightly faded; Scribe, Melbourne, 2006. New edition. *An updated and substantially rewritten edition of a work first..... More
Cover and illustrations by Robert Juniper. Pp. [x]+326, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and maps; med. 8vo; brown art. leather, lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle canted, top foe-corner of lower board faintly bruised; dust wrapper with 1981 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award Non-Fiction Winner sticker on front panel;..... More
The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. With an Introduction by the Honourable Rae Else-Mitchell. Pp. xiv+586, coloured frontispiece portrait plus 20 black & white plates, title page printed in red/brown & black, references, index; med. 8vo; beige cloth, spine blocked in brown and lettered..... More
Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-98). Pp. [xvi]+420(last blank), 8 plates, one text illustration, endpaper map, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly foxed edges rubbed and a trifle split; a little pale foxing; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1976. First edition. *Forster was Naturalist with..... More
Pp. [viii]+248(last colophon), frontispiece portrait plus 20 plates, text illustrations, index; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt (dulled), upper board decorated in blind, the boards a trifle canted, fore-corners slightly bruised, spine lightly faded; a couple of small edge splits or chips, a little light foxing, creasing and..... More
Pp. viii+272, frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine blocked in red and lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed; name in ink at head of half-title page, the text block faintly browned; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1967. First edition. *Biography of the..... More
A Critical Biography. Pp. 336, 12 plates, appendix, not4es, select bibliography, index; demy 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split; tiny red ink spot near centre of upper pastedown; Faber and Faber, London, 1979. First edition. *'Explores the ambiguous relationship between fact..... More