Books + Art - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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Jeffrey Smart
[SMART]. PEARCE, Barry.
# 1
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2005. Quarto, handsomely bound in giltlettered
red cloth in slipcase, 256pp. extensively illustrated. The de luxe
edition, limited to 35 copies only, with a signed limitation statement by
Smart and original signed lithograph. The lithograph, titled ‘Come in,
Spinner’, is similarly limited to 35 copies, signed and numbered by the
artist. Very rare.
$ 4,000
Ex Libris K. Brian
Stonier
LITTLEWOOD,
Robert C.
# 812
Ex Libris K. Brian Stonier. By Robert C. Littlewood. Stoke-on-Trent :
The Lytlewode Press, 2010. Quarto blue cloth in matching slipcase,
13 pp., portrait frontispiece of Lionel Lindsay, original tipped-in etched
Stonier bookplate by Lionel Lindsay, facsimile of original design with
alternate composition overlay. Loosely enclosed in pocket at rear,
facsimiles of correspondence and ephemera, complete in envelopes,
relating to the original project.
A fascinating case study of the commission of an important bookplate,
created by Lionel Lindsay in 1951 for Brian Stonier, who is now the
only person living for whom the artist created such a work. The
volume explains the biographical background of the subject, now
a prominent figure in the fields of arts and viticulture, and includes
a design model for the commission as well as facsimiles of relevant
documents. It is significantly enhanced by the addition of an original
impression of Lindsay’s etched final work. The presence of a checklist
of all of Lionel Lindsay’s bookplates further contributes to the
usefulness of this volume in the study of Australian bookplates.
Limited to 275 copies printed on Zerkall mold-made paper and bound
in Shropshire, England. Signed and numbered by the author.
$ 330