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The Art of Walter Jardine
(presentation copy)
JARDINE, Walter (1884-1970)
# 1576
Sydney : W. T. Baker & Co. [for Walter Jardine], [1933]. Presentation
copy to the artist’s mother, inscribed in pen on the front free endpaper.
An unopened copy. Quarto, cloth over printed boards (lightly marked),
[unpaginated], illustrated (chiefly in colour).
Jardine was one of the most significant Australian commercial artists of
the early twentieth century. Commencing his career as a newspaper
illustrator, he then moved into advertising and spent several years
in New York in the 1920s, working with great success for major
magazines. Based in Sydney from 1928, he worked as a freelance artist
for such companies as Toohey Ltd and Tooth & Co. Ltd, Burns Philp,
Orient Steam Navigation Co., William Arnott Ltd and Stephen Keir
(manufacturer of Akubra hats), as well as producing commissioned
artwork for various government departments.
This self-published book showcases in particular Jardine’s magnificent
poster designs, many of them for quintessentially Australian products.
The style and flavour of his commercial imagery is instantly
recognisable and has become inextricably linked with an Australian
aesthetic of this era.
$ 440
Australian Bookplates as Ephemera
JEWELL, Edwin W.
# 147
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 10 September, 1997. Folio, red
card wrappers with title label, 20pp. with 15 bookplates tipped-in,
many of which are original etchings or linocuts by Australian artists
including Pixie O’Harris, Lionel Lindsay, Jean Elder, Andrew and Irena
Sibley. Published to mark the announcement of the formation of the
Australian Bookplate Society on 10 September 1997 at the meeting
of the Ephemera Society of Australia at Melbourne. Limited to 35
copies, signed by author and publisher, printed for private circulation to
foundation members of the Society. Rare.
$ 330