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    By Hans Heysen; Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and C. Lloyd Jones (eds.)
    Sydney   Angus & Robertson, Ltd
    10.5" by 9" 20, [65]pp
    The first edition, limited to 1,700 copies, of this collection of work by Hans Heysen both in colour and black and white.
    By Hans Heysen; Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and C. Lloyd Jones (eds.)

    1920 The Art of Hans Heysen

    Sydney   Angus & Robertson, Ltd
    10.5" by 9" 20, [65]pp
    The first edition, limited to 1,700 copies, of this collection of work by Hans Heysen both in colour and black and white.
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    Description

    Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

    First edition of The Art of Hans Heysen in the original publisher's quarter cloth binding and paper boards.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith.

    Hans Heysen was an Australian artist who was well known for his beautiful watercolour paintings of Australian gum trees. He was awarded the Wynne Prize for landscape painting nine times. 

    Illustrated with sixty five plates in total, with thirty two in colour and thirty three in monochrome. Collated, complete.

    Prior owner's ink inscription from 1924 to the first free endpaper.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding and paper boards. Externally, smart. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. There is some slight wear to the head and tail of the spine. Prior owner's ink inscription from 1924 to the first free endpaper. The hinges are starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some occasional light spotting particularly to the endpapers.

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