[No Place, No Publisher, late 1800s]. Contemporary ownership inscription; 'Versailles, 28/29 October '73'. More about Vues de Versailles. Le Chateau le Parc, Le Petit and le Grand, Trianon

London, Rodwell & Martin, 1823. William Light (1786-1839), soldier and surveyor, was born in Malaya and spent his childhood in Penang. He served with distinction (and was unharmed) in the Peninsular war. He missed Waterloo, but was severely wounded in a minor Spanish revolution in 1823. In the years before... More about Sicilian Scenery from Drawings by P. De Wint. The Original Sketches of Major Light

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. With the armorial bookplate of 'George Bennett, MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England'. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893), naturalist and doctor, migrated to Australia in 1836, 'developing a successful medical practice in Sydney and becoming a leading figure in... More about Travelling Sketches on the Sea-Coasts of France, with beautifully finished Engravings, from...

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. From the amusing opening 11 pages on the rebuilding of London's Houses of Parliament (referencing but not naming, the feud between Neoclassical and Neogothic architects) to a comical evening's gossip with a painter, and a four year's residence in Italy. Edward Villiers Rippingille... More about The Artist and Amateur's Magazine. A Work devoted to the Interests of the Arts of Design and the...

Paris, Martinet, [1850s]. For those who wish to have a brush with the law ... 'These are the earliest illustrations for the Code Civil', done by Charles Amédée de Noé (1818-1879), a noted French caricaturist (see 'Laughing at Law Codes: A French Tradition', an exhibition curated by Mike Widener at..... More about Le Code Civil. Commente par Cham. Ouvrage destine aux Personnes qui desirent avoir des Demeles...

London, Arthur Miall, 1868. 'The characteristic excellencies of Raphael's Bible, being those of composition and expression, can be conveyed through the medium of engraving. Early impressions of plates, printed at Rome in 1674, have therefore been secured.... The Photographs may be fairly left to speak for themselves'. The publisher's advertisements... More about Expositions of Raphael's Bible

Sydney, Government Printer, 1873. New South Wales Parliamentary Paper Number 181 of 1873. The attractive plates (two full-page and four half-page) are well-executed views of operational mining scenes or interesting landscape features ('granite outcrops and alluvial workings', as Trove succinctly puts it); artists identified are Wilkinson himself and R.L. Murray. More about Tin-Bearing Country, New England. (Report of Mr Licensed Surveyor Wilkinson on

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1882 to 1890. The following information from the entry on the South Australian botanical artist Rosa Catherine Fiveash (1854-1938) in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' is a potted history of the project: 'In 1882 Rosa was invited to illustrate "The Forest Flora of South Australia" by John... More about The Forest Flora of South Australia

[London, The Victoria Institute, 1889]. More about The Aborigines of Australia. Their Ethnic Position and Relations. [An offprint from] Journal of...

Melbourne, Charles Stuart and Co., 1890 and 1891. The plate count per volume is, respectively, 52, 58, 48, 48, 50 and 47. Although it is complete, this set is sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. More about Birds of Australia. Comprising Three Hundred Full-Page Illustrations, with a Descriptive Account...

[Adelaide], E.S. Wigg, [1890]. Ferguson 9924e (but we have seen any number of bindings identical to ours, and none as described by Ferguson). He also states that 'The Mitchell Library copy has a pencil note: 200 printed, in George Robertson's hand-writing'. In spite of this comment, and the 181 subscribers'... More about 14 Views of Old Adelaide from Sketches in 1840-1849 by S.T. Gill, F.R. Nixon, S. Calvert and O. Korn

Adelaide, School of Design Art Club, 1894. Harry Pelling Gill (1855-1916), art curator and teacher, at the time Director for Technical Art. 'In 1892 he was appointed honorary curator of the art gallery and, following the resignation in December of Louis Tannert as master of the school of painting, Gill... More about The Straight and Devious Paths of Studentship. A Lecture delivered at the School of Design,...

Brisbane, Queensland Printing and Publishing Co. (Hodgson and Paton), 1897. The artist James Swinton Diston (1857-1940) was born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia in 1886. 'Mr Diston is an artist of long-established reputation, a Member of the Council of the Art Society of New South Wales, his pictures having... More about The Australian Art Union .. Collection of Oil & Water Color Paintings (Valued at £409 10s),...

London, George Allen, 1899. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. More about Peg Woffington

London, Seeley and Company, 1900. More about Cameos

[London, The Author], 1900. The edition was limited to 200 numbered copies; this copy is unnumbered and presumably out of series. More about Egyptian Ceramic Art. Typical Examples of the Art of the Egyptian Potter portrayed in Colour...

London, The Studio, 1900. Not least, 'The Work of Pietro Fraciacomo' (with 9 illustrations, 2 coloured; Fraciacomo 'drew mainly seascapes and cityscapes of Venice, often at night, a thematic also pursued by Mario de Maria. By the turn of the century, his style had acquired Symbolist overtones devoid of a.... More about The Studio. An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. Volume Eighteen [18

London, W. and R. Chambers, 1902 (first edition). With numerous illustrations plus 20 colour plates by Gordon Browne. More about The Cloister and the Hearth. A Tale of the Middle Ages

[Germany, privately printed, circa 1905]. Number 26 from a privately-printed edition of only 200 copies on Zanders laid paper; the translation is by Johannes Minckwitz. More about Lysistrata. Ein Lustspiel in Fünf Akten. Mit neun Zeichnungen von Aubrey Beardsley

London, Penrose, 1906. More about Penrose's Pictorial Annual. The Process Year Book for 1906-7 [Volume 12

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. George Morland (1763-1804) 'stood alone as a painter of (English) peasant and humble life'. More about George Morland. His Life and Works

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker, 1841-1911; barrister, pastoralist and influential South Australian politician. Baker was one of the founding fathers of Federation and the first President of the Senate in the first Commonwealth Parliament. One of the Spanish Series... More about Velazquez. An Account of his Life and Works

London, Chatto and Windus, 1908. More about The Franco-British Exhibition Illustrated Review, 1908. Edited by F.G. Dumas

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 (fifth edition). More about Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Paris, printed by Draeger for High-Life Tailor, [1909]. The story is a tale purportedly from the 'Thousand and One Nights' entitled 'Histoire du Tailleur de Bagdad et du Secret Merveilleux'. The preliminary drawings prefigure the published version, but vary in many ways from the final product. A copy of the... More about The original preliminary artwork for a lavish promotional publication for the Parisian fashion...