The signature of the artist is scratched into the bottom right-hand corner of the artwork. The bottom panel of the wood-veneer mat is dated and credited in white ink: '20-7-16 | Original drawing by Lionel Lindsay'. The six-line joke is also inscribed there in full: 'ANOTHER LAPSUS LINGUAE. Country Doctor..... More

London, W. Swan Sonnenschein, 1885 (second edition). Although a map is listed in the contents, it was clearly never issued with this copy, or perhaps even with this edition; it was definitely not published in the third edition of the following year. More

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928 (first edition). One of 4000 copies of the deluxe issue in full leather, and one of only 1200 bound in green; there were also 1200 in blue and 1600 in red. More

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928 (first edition thus). 'This Edition on Hand-made Paper, published in 1928, is limited to 350 numbered and signed copies, of which this is number 137' (statement of limitation on the verso of the title page, signed by both the author and the artist). The..... More

New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1929]. Apart from the cover-title leaf, there is a leaf for each month of the year, with a verse from Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'. More

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1928]. 'More "Very Young" Songs' is listed as a 'new collection'; 'When We Were Very Young' is in its 189th thousand; 'The House at Pooh Corner' is in its 105th thousand (and its three deluxe editions are still available, including the 'edition on vellum, signed..... More

Glasgow, Printed at the University Press for David Bryce and Son, 1911 (first thus)/ 1896. Issued in honour of the Coronation of King George V, this is a reprint of the 1896 edition, 'the earliest complete miniature Bible ... [These] Bryce Bibles are embellished with 28 full-page line illustrations reduced..... More

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1926. With the contemporary ownership details of 'I.F. Phipps, Cornell University ... April 1926', and the later name-stamp of G.M.E. Mayo, University of Adelaide. While still a student at the University of Adelaide, Phipps had been appointed to head the plant breeding section at the..... More

Sydney, Luxton and Hooper, Printers [for Cinesound Studios], [1936]. The text inside the front cover is self-explanatory: 'Stuart Doyle Presents Helen Twelvetrees in Australia's First World Standard Production, "Thoroughbred". Produced by Cinesound Productions Ltd. Directed by Ken G. Hall. Original Screen Play by Edmund Seward. Photography by George Heath.... [List..... More

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1938. Number 40 of 850 sets, designed by Francis Meynell. Loosely inserted are two contemporary newspaper reviews. [2 items]. More

Brisbane, Flavelle, Roberts and Sankey, 1908. Flavelle's Gem Series Number 1. Sydney Skertchly (1850-1926) arrived in Brisbane in 1891 after a successful career as a geologist in places as varied as the Fenland and East Anglia, Egypt, California, Burma and China. In 1895-97 he was assistant government geologist in the..... More

Melbourne, T. Harwood (Fergusson and Moore, Printers), 1864. 'It is the object of the present work to direct the attention of those who feel interested in the question - "Which was the primitive alphabet of man?" - to a discovery made by the author in the year 1848.... he perceived..... More

Melbourne, Hyland House, 1985. More

London, The Royal Photographic Society ('Printed in Photogravure by Lascelles & Co. Ltd., Essex St. Strand W.C.2'), June 1931. The first photogravure is 'Bewegungs Studie (Study of Movement) by Prof. Rudolf Koppitz of Vienna', featuring dancers from the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936), was born in the Czech..... More

The photographer is not identified, but we suggest he was a travelling photographer working in South Australia, circa 1890s. The butcher is framed between two dead trees in a fairly harsh environment, with a basic dwelling in the distance. He is wearing a long apron as he sharpens a knife..... More

Locomotive 506 'Sir George Murray' entered service in October 1926; it was withdrawn in June 1959 and scrapped three years later. We have been able to trace a couple of relatively minor derailments involving this locomotive, but not this particular incident. The terrain and surrounding vegetation suggest to us the..... More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas ... Printers, 1925. We have handled a copy with a note by Harry Muir (of the Beck Book Company) stating that the edition comprised '350 full cloth / 150 paper'. Provenance: John Grant Duncan-Hughes (1882-1962), SA pastoralist, lawyer, and Federal politician, with his contemporary ownership signature (3..... More

London, [later 1900s]. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts has signed the bottom margin of the mount in pencil ('Roberts, F.M.' ). 'Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, VD, PC, FRSGS (30 September 1832 - 14 November 1914) was a British Victorian era general..... More

East Aurora, The Roycrofters [Roycroft Press], 1905. Number 40 of only 106 copies of the deluxe issue on Japan Vellum, numbered and signed in ink by Elbert Hubbard (publisher and leader of the Roycrofters). [We have other deluxe Roycroft Press editions in stock; enquiries welcome]. More

Jakarta, Elf Acquitaine Indonésie, 1989. 'This book, entirely devoted to Borneo (and the whole of it) displays some 550 photographs and 100 ink drawings and provides a comprehensive overview of traditional cultures and their arts' (dustwrapper blurb). The 110 monochrome illustrations to the English text are repeated for the Indonesian..... More