gill samuel thomas (13 Ergebnisse)

Stapled. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Herbert Paus (cover), Matt Clark (Motives of an Overlord), Samuel N Abbott (Paris Adventure), Joseph Conde (Glamour), Walter Biggs (Three Men and Diana), Robert Gellert (A Dog's Hind Leg), Harold Von Schmidt (Death Rides the Mesa) (illustrator). First Edition. The January 1934 issue of The American Magazine. Stories and articles it contains include: Motives of an Overlord, a story by Ernest Haycox, Paris Adventure, a Saint story by Leslie Charteris (Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin) (I haven't been able to determine where or if this story was published in a Saint story collection), Glamour, a story by Rosamond du Jardin, Three Men and Diana, part IV of a novel by Kathleen Norris, A Dog's Hind Leg, a Scattergood story by Clarence Budington Kelland, Death Rides the Mesa, part V of a novel Tom Gill, 1934's Challenge to the New Deal, an article by Thomas F Woodlock, Brave Old World, a short feature by Archibald Rutledge, and numerous other vintage Depression Era articles and ads. Condition issues include light soiling to the front cover, spine wear with small loss at the top and bottom, and a 1.125" x .5" chip to the middle fore edge of the back cover. The interior is clean and tight. A good to very good copy of a vintage magazine.

Soft Cover. Zustand: F-. Reprint. Square 4to. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & marked); pp. [iv (last blank)], 100, with illustrations. Oversize item (1.25 kg), additional postage may be required for domestic and international delivery. A near fine copy.

8vo. 160pp. Original boards in pictorial dustwrapper. B&W and colour illustrations. Decorative endpapers. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Zustand: FINE. pp. 100, fine full page coloured plated. #0220 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. (Please note: Over standard weight or size. Orders via ABE Books or Biblio or from Overseas may incur additional postage charges. We will contact you prior to processing order to request your approval or contact us to confirm postage cost.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Has some light general reading/shelfwear, with some fading to bottom edge of dustjacket - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Book.

Boards. Introduction and Commentaries by Geoffrey Dutton (illustrator). Limited Ed. 4to, original cloth boards with gilt-blocked title label, 12 tipped-in colour plates,accompanying text. Number 24 of a limited edition of 600, signed by Geoffrey Dutton. Half of front free endpaper diagonally cut away, o/w very good in like slipcase.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Oblong quarto (8 x 10 6/8 inches). Engraved vignette title-page and 45 fine steel engraved plates interleaved with guards (one or two minor spots). Original blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt (a bit rubbed, extremities a little scuffed). Provenance: from the library of Jacques Levy, his sale, Sotheby's, 20th April 2012, lot 335 First edition of the highly successful series of plates illustrating scenes in Melbourne, Geelong, the goldfields townships, and elsewhere in the Victorian countryside in Gill's inimitable style. Gill emigrated to Australia with his family in 1839, by 1852 he had arrived at the Victorian gold diggings, "and in the next twenty years produced drawings of Victoria and New South Wales, many published as lithographs. Evidence of visits to New South Wales in 1856 and 1861 exists in the form of lithographs of scenes in that colony in those years. Twenty-four lithographed sketches by Gill, 'Victoria Gold Diggings and Diggers As They Are', were published in Melbourne and London in 1853; moreover, most of the illustrations in 'The Gold-Finder of Australia; How He Went, How He Fared, And How He Made His Fortune' (London, 1853), said to have been edited but probably actually written by John Sherer, were taken from the book. In the 1850s Gill had a studio in Collins Street, Melbourne, over the premises of James J. Blundell & Co., booksellers and publishers. 'Victoria Illustrated', a book of steel engravings, not engraved by Gill but after his drawings, was published in Australia in 1857, and the colour lithographs in Edward Wilson's 'Rambles at the Antipodes' (London, 1859) are after Gill's drawings. Gill's 'Scenery in and Around Sydney' (1856) appeared in two parts, each including six 'lithographic sketches'. Several editions were published of 'The Australian Sketchbook' by S. T. G., a portfolio of lithographed views, mostly of rural life. In 1869 he was commissioned by the trustees of the Melbourne Public Library to do forty sketches of the Victorian goldfields during 1852-53" (Australian Dictionary of Biography online). Bowden, p. 126; Ferguson 9924; Wantrup, 260a. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

Hardcover. Oblong 4to., (6 3/8 x 9 6/8 inches). Additional engraved title-page with fine vignette of Point Gellibrand, 41 steel engraved plates on heavy stock all with ORIGINAL HAND-COLOUR HEIGHTENED WITH GUM ARABIC, interleaved with pages of descriptive text (last plate with vertical crease, some offsetting of plates onto text, one or two pale stains, some light toning). Original maroon morocco, gilt, all edges gilt (extremities a bit scuffed). Provenance: from the library of Jacques Levy, his sale, Sotheby's, 20th April 2012, lot 335 RARE COLOURED COPY. The very successful first series, after drawings by Gill, was published in 1857, and this the much rarer second series was designed as a companion volume. As Gill had since moved to Sydney, and was in decline, this second volume included the work of a number of other artists as well, including the celebrated Nicholas Chevalier, who is credited on the title-page vignette, all other plates are unsigned. This is an important historical record of Victorian Victoria in Australia, including detailed images of prominent and important buildings such as Banks, the Melbourne Club, hospitals, schools, the Bridge over the Yarra, and many river views. Gill emigrated to Australia with his family in 1839, by 1852 he had arrived at the Victorian gold diggings, "and in the next twenty years produced drawings of Victoria and New South Wales, many published as lithographs. Evidence of visits to New South Wales in 1856 and 1861 exists in the form of lithographs of scenes in that colony in those years. Twenty-four lithographed sketches by Gill, 'Victoria Gold Diggings and Diggers As They Are', were published in Melbourne and London in 1853; moreover, most of the illustrations in 'The Gold-Finder of Australia; How He Went, How He Fared, And How He Made His Fortune' (London, 1853), said to have been edited but probably actually written by John Sherer, were taken from the book. In the 1850s Gill had a studio in Collins Street, Melbourne, over the premises of James J. Blundell & Co., booksellers and publishers. 'Victoria Illustrated', a book of steel engravings, not engraved by Gill but after his drawings, was published in Australia in 1857, and the colour lithographs in Edward Wilson's 'Rambles at the Antipodes' (London, 1859) are after Gill's drawings. Gill's 'Scenery in and Around Sydney' (1856) appeared in two parts, each including six 'lithographic sketches'. Several editions were published of 'The Australian Sketchbook' by S. T. G., a portfolio of lithographed views, mostly of rural life. In 1869 he was commissioned by the trustees of the Melbourne Public Library to do forty sketches of the Victorian goldfields during 1852-53" (Australian Dictionary of Biography online). Chevalier emigrated from Russia to Australia in 1855, and while illustrating for Punch and exhibiting his watercolours introduced chromolithography Victoria "where it became an important and flourishing art. He exhibited some of his delicately painted water- colours in December 1856 at the exhibition in Melbourne from which sprang the Society of Fine Arts. As an oil painter he was less successful, although his oil, 'The Buffalo Ranges', was selected as the best painting by a resident Victorian in an exhibition sponsored by the government in 1864. It was bought for £200, the first Australian painting obtained for the new National Gallery of Victoria. He continued to paint in oil and water-colour, often travelling about the countryside. His rather grandiose works in the style of the later Romantics were then popular, but his skilled technique, attention to detail and prolific output did not produce great painting. Although he had opportunities to observe much of interest, his over-conventionalized works lacked the atmosphere and inspiration of some contemporaries; probably his influence and importance as a personality were greater than his ability as an artist" (Australian Dictionary of Biography online).Ferguson, 9924b; Wantrup, 261. Cata.

Zustand: Very good overall. A wonderful large size Gill lilthograph. Printed on thick wove paper and depicting a moonlit scene with the bier of an Aborigine supported on rough cut poles, as dingoes in the grass below stare up at it. From Gill's scarce work "The Australian Sketchbook". Ferguson 9924f; Wantrup 251. Light foxing, mostly at margins. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4".

Zustand: Very good overall. Lithograph printed on thick wove paper and depicting a man in western attire leaning against the hut door frame, flanked by his dog and conversing with two seated Aborigines, as another approaches carrying firewood on his shoulder. S. T. G. printed at the lower left. From Gill's scarce work "The Australian Sketchbook". Ferguson 9924f; Wantrup 251. General foxing. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4".

1862 edition complete with 44 steel-engraved plates, including 1857 title page with illustration of the entrance to Port Philip. Small oblong folio. All plates with tissue guards, plus 1 page describing each plate. Some light and almost entirely marginal foxing and staining. In 20th Century half leather with marbled paper boards. The contents page is restricted to 15 plates. Melbourne & Sydney, Sands & Kenny,

Zustand: Very Good. [London, Published by Paul Jerrard & Son for the Proprietor Messrs. Newbold & Co., after 1865]. Two hand-coloured lithographs, individually framed and glazed at a much later date (matted just outside the printed border, obscuring the series title and plate number above the upper border; visible image sizes approximately 210 × 260 mm; external dimensions 422 × 447 mm). Hand-colouring a little faded; light uneven tanning to the 'Bushrangers' plate; overall, in excellent condition (but not examined out of the frames). The complete series comprises twelve views of the Australian goldfields in the manner of S.T. Gill; the set 'was probably issued loose, without any title or wrapper' (Wantrup, page 327). The two plates on offer are 'The Lost Bushman, or The Unfortunate Digger That Never Returned' (Number 2), and 'Bushrangers waiting for the Mails in New South Wales' (Number 5). The title is printed beneath the image, along with four lines of explanatory text; the 'Lost Bushman' plate also has an additional four lines of verse. Wantrup suggests a date of publication after the appearance of Gill's 'Australian Sketchbook' in 1865, due to the numerous similarities between the two works. Complete sets of this series (and probably individual plates too) are clearly rare: Wantrup refers to incomplete sets selling at auction in 1977 and 1982, and the only addition to the book auction records since then is the incomplete set in the 2008 Davidson Collection sale (when 11 framed and glazed plates sold for $18,640 against an estimate of $6000-8000). Ferguson 15738b; Wantrup 255. [2 items].

[Melbourne : James J. Blundell, between 1852 and 1855]. Illustrated letter paper, 182 x 115 mm, bifolium with lithographed letterhead reproducingone of the plates fromS.T. Gill'sSketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are(Melbourne : Macartney & Galbraith, August 1852); lithographedimage, including captions, 90 x 90 mm; the rear blank side has a light hinge mark, butthis is an exceptionally fine example. This illustratedletter paper reproduces a slightly modified version of goldfields artist S.T. Gill'sDiggers shipping from Melbourne:the detail in the notices on the wall in the shipping office is omitted, and the lithograph includes a second, calligraphic caption which does not appear in the original version. According to Shar Jones, 'at least forty-six vignettes were lithographed for letterheads with wry explanatory captions.' (DAAO) A rare piece of printed ephemera from the early Victorian gold rush era.We can locate no other example of thisparticular letterpaper in Australian collections. References : DEUTSCHER, Chris.Painters and engravers from the gold-fields. Focusing on Victoria: the 1850s onwards.Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1983, p. 44 BOWDEN, K. M. Samuel Thomas Gill : artist. Maryborough, 1971, p. 121.