J. J. Hilder water-colourist (Baldwin Spencer's copy, with duplicate plate of one of his paintings) de [HILDER, Jesse Jewhurst]

Sydney : Tyrrells, 1916. Quarto, lettered card wrappers (the folds and spine professionally conserved verso), Hilder's bookplate reproduced on the front free endpaper, previous owner's name of 'W.B.S.' (William Baldwin Spencer) and later N. A. Mackenzie to endpaper, pp. [44]. portrait frontispiece, 10 colour and 2 black and white plates tipped-in, essays by Julian Ashton, Bertram Stevens, Sydney Ure Smith and Lionel Lindsay, catalogue of the loan exhibition of the work of J. J. Hilder held at the Society of Artists' Room, Sydney 14th, 1916 listing 205 works with the names of their owners. Limited to 500 copies, a very good copy. Noteworthy as the first Australian art book to employ colour printing for the reproductions, J. J. Hilder water-colourist was published as a memorial to the painter with the net profits of this book were given to Mrs J. J. Hilder. A duplicate plate of the watercolour 'Grey-Gold, Dora Creek', listed as in the possession of Sir Baldwin Spencer, is loosely inserted, a nice display of ownership provenance.