[Wayzgoose Press]

Wayzgoose. The Australian Journal of Book Arts. Number One [all published]

Pyrmont, The Wayzgoose Press, 1985.

Folio (300 × 190 mm), [v], 93, [4] (third one the colophon, others blank), [4] (advertisements) pages with numerous illustrations and tipped-in monochrome and colour plates and 8 marbled paper samples plus 8 pages of plates (6 in colour); a two-colour errata leaf ('Solecism', 285 × 169 mm, printed recto only) is loosely inserted.

Flush-cut plain blue card covers with the attached pictorial wrappers with wide French flaps (with a partial index on the front cover, and an advertisement on the rear); slightly overlapping top edge of the wrapper lightly creased and very slightly chipped; an excellent copy (internally fine).

Number 379 of 400 copies (plus 50 copies in quarter leather and cloth). Articles include 'George Howe and Early Printing in New South Wales'; 'The Art and Craft of Oil and Watercolour Marbling'; 'Nature and Occurrence of Lithographic Limestone'; and 'Pioneers of Process Engraving in Australia'.

Item #118450

Price (AUD): $180.00
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