The Art of the First Fleet and other early Australian Drawings Tapa dura - 1988

Paul Mellon Center BA, 1988T. paperback. Good. .

Oxford University Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Spine and part of front jacket sun faded. Covered in mylar since new. Internally Fine

Oxford University Press Australia, Melbourne, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 256 pp., list of plates, acknowledgements, 4 appendices, notes, bibliography and index. Dark blue coloured endpapers. Illustrated title page, showing an early parrot illustration. The text is illustrated with over 240 illustrations -- some full-page & many coloured. Bone/ecru coloured cloth binding with gilt line down spine gutter edge and gilt writing on the spine. Illustrated dust wrapper, showing a Port Jackson Aborigine, with pale blue background with white and black writing on the front panel and on the spine. Within the book there are many illustrations which are published for the first time. The book provides for the first time a comprehensive visual supplement to the First Fleet journals of Governor Phillip, Surgeon John White, Captain Watkin Tench, Captain John Hunter and Judge-Advocate David Collins. The illustrations include over 70 of the… Leer más

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket, large folio art book. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.