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London: The Studio, 1921. First Edition. Original gilt decorated papered boards with parchment backstrip. Very good. Notable for his skill in rendering architectural detail and moody Parisian scenes, "The Etchings of Charles Meryon" offers a diverse selection of the artist's work. Selected from the holdings of the British Museum by keeper of prints and drawings, Campbell Dodgson M.A., C.B.E.: '...But nothing I have said yet explains what there is in Meryon that makes him regard him as a great artist... It was the combination, in Meryon, of this high degree of mechanical skill with with a fine instinct for design and a poet's vision which was still more specially his prerogative that places him in a different category from a Lalanne, a Martial-Potémont or an Edwon Edwards. The old streets were not, for him, merely storehouses of picturesque motives, structures composed of walls and porticos, gables and spires, on which the sun arranged at day different patterns of light and shade; they were that,…
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The Etchings of Charles Meryon
by [MERYON, Charles] DODGSON, Campbell
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Hardy Wilson and his Old Colonial Architecture
by [WILSON, Hardy] PEARL, Cyril
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Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1970. Many of the plates in this book originally featured in Wilson's "Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania", a legendary work in Australian architectural history, now a rare and desirable volume. Folio, 47 full-page plates; cream boards, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper and dust-jacket thumbed, else a fine copy in the original quarter cloth.
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Lux et Nox
by HENSON, Bill
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Zurich: Scalo, 2002. Bill Henson, born in 1955, is one of Australia's leading contemporary photographers. Lux et Nox is the largest and most sumptuous of Henson's publications. First edition, large oblong monograph, original navy cloth, 285 x 430 mm, 176 pages, illustrated with full page photographs throughout, a fine copy in a fine dust-jacket.
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Notes on the Materials of Motor-Car Construction
by BERRIMAN, Algernon E.
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London: St Martin's Publishing Co, 1912. First Edition. An early book on the engineering and construction of automotive parts, with a special emphasis on metallurgy. 'An account of modern metallurgical science applied to automobile engineering, including detailed descriptions of the principal processes involved in the production and testing of iron and steel, together with a collection of micrographs and charts graphically illustrating the influence of heat treatment on metals.' The book is well illustrated with photo plates of factory equipment and production, smelting and. Quarto, bound in original red cloth, photographically illustrated throughout, previous owner's inscription, near fine.
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Sydney Bridge Celebrations
by URE SMITH, Sydney and GELLERT, Leon
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SYDNEY: ART IN AUSTRALIA, 1932. First Edition. Decadent art deco publication with a splendid assortment of colour advertisements. Illustrated by many notable Australian artists, reproducing Will Ashton in oil and J.J. Hilder in watercolour, and includes a series of beautiful photographs of the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Harold Cazneaux. An article titled 'Our Glorious Surf Beaches' is supported by a suite of images of the Surf Life Savers. Quarto, silver-gilt decorated paper wrappers, 80pp, a very good copy indeed.
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