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Italian Pleasure Gardens
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRose Standish Nichols
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928.First printing of the third and final in American landscape architect Rose Standish Nichols’ (1872-1960) studies on the gardens of Europe, preceded by English Pleasure Gardens (1902) and Spanish and Portuguese Gardens (1924). Italian Pleasure Gardens was the first to be illustrated with photographs taken by Nichols on her travels, there being near 200 illustrations throughout.
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The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCelanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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Dragons and Dragon Lore
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Ingersoll
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928.With an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
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Secretarial Course: Business Correspondence
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHemingway & Robertson
Melbourne: Hemingway & Robertson, 1928.Six part series of specialised secretarial coursework for use of students of Hemingway & Robertson Proprietary Limited, consulting accountants and coaches.
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A Quair of Sonnets and Ballads
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Pride
Liverpool: John Pride, 1928.Written and etched by artist and engraver John Foster Disney Pride (1877-1941). One half of ‘Pride and Dowling’ Engravers and Brass Plate Makers, John withdrew from the partnership to study at The Liverpool School of Art. He exhibited oil and watercolours, and was commissioned to sketch old buildings in Liverpool, prior to their demolition. This copy includes a 1932 Evening Express article laid in, which states that John Pride approached the Lord Mayor requesting the Duke of York should accept his book. His Lordship was delighted with the gift. A nice association copy inscribed to the artist’s cousin, and signed “The sixty-second copy hand pulled. John Pride.”