[BOARD, Leslie] (illustrator)

Australia's Poets [cover title]

[Sydney, Leslie Board, circa 1910s].

Oblong octavo, [13] leaves printed rectos only, including 12 colour plates.

Ribbon-bound overlapping decorated wrappers; covers a little worn, and with a few closed tears; ribbon a little tanned; a very good copy.

A Christmas souvenir featuring 12 colour plates from paintings by Leslie Board, each a illustrating a couplet or quatrain from an Australian poet. Banjo Paterson, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Lawson are all represented. This is likely a variant of 'Gems from Australian Poets', published by the NSW Bookstall Co. and extensively advertised around Christmas 1906.

Item #126480

Price (AUD): $110.00
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