
Price: $500.00
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Special issue bound in blue half-leather and buckram, gilt crest on upper board, with matching slipcase; signed by the author. Thirty copies thus were produced, twenty-five of which were offered for sale (numbered I-XV), and five (A-E) were retained by the publisher for presentation purposes - this is one of the presentation copies. Square 4to. 192pp, 61 full-page colour plates (one a folding panorama) plus full illustrated catalogue of the artist's 217 known works (small b&w images). The spine a little sunned (to a brownish hue, as often), otherwise a fine clean copy. Loosely inserted are an invitation to the book's launch and the catalogue for the concurrent exhibition of the artist's work at TMAG. ISBN 0908528132
Title: Simpkinson de Wesselow : landscape painter in Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District, 1844-1848.
Categories: Tasmania,
Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1984
Seller ID: 36372
Keywords: 19th century art bhp colonial colonial art tasmania Van Diemen's Land Victoria,