Australia Described - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

36141. CHENHALL, Marguerite (ed.). Christmas. Being a collectionof hand coloured linocuts by Irena Sibley together withpoems written by Kieran Carroll, Michael Dugan, DianeFahey, Emma Lew, Vane Lindesay, David Martin, CarolynMorwood, Stella Turner, Dorothy Williams. Melbourne: The Littlewood Press, 1996. Folio, gilt-decorated greenmorocco in red cloth slipcase, 28pp., illustrated with tentipped-in original signed and hand coloured linocuts.Limited to 75 copies, this one of the 25 De Luxe versions.$1250142. LITTLEWOOD, Robert C. Six bookplates engraved by DavidFrazer. Stoke-on-Trent : The Lytlewode Press, 2006. Quarto,cloth in matching slipcase, [4pp.], six plates, each being atipped-in original wood engraved bookplate. Limited to150 copies signed by the author. David Frazer is widelyconsidered one of Australia’s finest wood engravers. Thisfinely produced monograph on his bookplates is a tributeto his skill and the art of contemporary bookplate making.$330143. LITTLEWOOD, Robert C. Television comes to Ballarat.A personal memoir by Robert C. Littlewood with woodengravings by Hilary Paynter. Stoke-on-Trent : TheLytlewode Press, 2010. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth inmatching slipcase, 13pp., illustrated with three originalwood engravings by Paynter (one signed). Limited to 275copies signed by the author and artist. An autobiographicalaccount of Littlewood’s childhood spent in Ballarat inthe 1950s, and the wonderment of the introduction oftelevision to Australia. Charmingly illustrated with originalprints by England’s most highly regarded contemporarywood engraver. $330