Books + Art - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

A poem. Inscribed with all due reverence to Mrs Bret, once Countess
of Macclesfield. By Richard Savage, son of the late Earl Rivers.
Melbourne: The Littlewood Press for the Melbourne Savage Club,
1997. Folio, string-bound black card wrappers with title label, 20pp.
with two original signed etchings by Peter Jones, limited to 100 copies
signed and numbered by the artist and publisher. Published by the
Littlewood Press on behalf of the Melbourne Savage Club to mark
the 300th anniversary of the birth of Richard Savage and the 140th
anniversary of the foundation of the Savage Club, London. A fine
hand-made private press distributed to members of the Melbourne
Savage Club.
$ 250
The Bastard
[JONES]
# 148
Heritage : the national women’s art book
KERR, Joan
# 2148
500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to
1955. [Sydney] : Art and Australia ; Roseville East, N.S.W. : distributed
by Craftsman House, 1995. Quarto, grey cloth with illustrated dust
jacket, xix, 483 pp, illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Some very
mild spotting to edges; otherwise an excellent copy.
A wonderfully illustrated companion to key works by Australian
women artists, which includes a comprehensive and extremely useful
set of biographies. A hard to find volume and excellent resource for
researchers.
$ 385
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