Fretwork Pediments in Queensland
Stringer, Richard; Byrne, Dianne
$50.00
Place Published: Brisbane
Edition: 1st Edition
Date Published: 1982
Illustrator: profusely illustrated
Size: 23 x 22cm
Catalogue for Richard Stringer’s series of photographs of Fretwork Pediments on Queensland houses, taken between 1976-1982, at locations including Ipswich, Toowoomba, Blackstone, Wooloongabba, Maryborough, Red Hill, Rockhampton, Manly, Hamilton, Roma, New Farm, Clayfield, Paddington, Spring Hill, Albion; houses include ‘Kimblehurst’, ‘Papanui’, ‘Ramsley’, ‘Como’, ‘Brunell’, ‘Duneverty’, Winnathoola’, ‘Cairnsville’, Hester Villa’; overall 35 b&w plates; foreword by Nancy Underhill; short intro by Marguerite Stringer, biographical dates, text by Dianne Byrne ‘The Art of Fretwork’, and also including short biographical notes on Notable Fretcutters (compiled by Byrne); foxing (med-heavy) to reverse sides of covers front and rear, and front and rear endpapers; text block foxed, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps rubbed and foxed.