The Art of Frederick McCubbin forty-five illustrations in colour and b&w with essay by James MacDonald and some remarks on Australian Art by the artist No. 206 of 1000 copies Signed by Frederick McCubbin
McCubbin, Frederick; MacDonald, James
$750.00
Place Published: Melbourne & Sydney
Edition: Signed Limited Edition
Date Published: 1916
Illustrator: hand-tipped plates
Size: folio
No. 206 of 1000 copies Signed by Frederick McCubbin, 45 full-page hand-tipped plates in colour and b&w, with printed tissue-guards, essay by James MacDonald, and including a text by McCubbin on aspects of Australian Art; list of subscribers to rear of text; all plates present (No. XXIII frontispiece, No. VII bound before VI) green cloth boards with gilt titling and detail of a McCubbin picture of two trees (also in gilt) to front board, gilt titling to spine; tanning and foxing to endpapers and prelims, short closed tear to one page of prelims, offset to contents page; tissue-guards vary in condition, some with closed tears and (occasionally) tape-repair, some intact, some with significant loss and creases; all plates clean and unmarked, with some tanning to edges of pages; generally Good throughout; boards rubbed, with dulling to gilt titling, in particular to spine; wear to head and tail of spine.