Bennett William Rubery (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. [18] unnumbered pages of text plus 23 tipped in color plates mounted on one side on 23 leaves. White boards backed in reddish cloth. dj. 28 cm. Introduction by Dargie. Edition limited to 1000 unnumbered copies signed by Bennett. Australian landscape painter.

4to, unpaginated. 23 tipped-in colour plates. A good hardback copy in chipped, torn and foxed dust jacket with significant loss to rear. Foxing to covers and intermittently throughout. . This edition is limited to 1000 copies and signed by the artist.

4to, unpaginated. 23 tipped-in colour plates. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Boards and edges of text block foxed. Angus & Robertson review slip affixed to front end paper. Limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Cremorne, Copperfield Publishing Company Pty Ltd, 1979. Folio, [vii], 69, [6] (index) pages with several illustrations plus 27 tipped-in colour plates. Full morocco lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; a fine copy with the near-fine cloth-covered slipcase (slightly rubbed). Number 41 of just 275 copies of the deluxe edition, signed by the artist. This copy also contains a small original landscape watercolour (67 × 81 mm, signed 'Rubery') executed on the title page, accompanied by an additional signed inscription to 'Ethel and George Alexander | Good friends old friends | George, I will always remember not only those successful exhibitions you held for me, at the Melbourne Block Galleries, where as a director you did so much to promote art appreciation | Rubery 20/4/80'. The recipient was Melbourne philanthropist George Herbert Alexander (1910-2008); an example of his Camberwell letterhead inscribed 'GA's Personal Copy' is loosely inserted. We have not established his connection with the Block Galleries, where Bennett held several shows in the 1960s. William Rubery Bennett (1893-1987) was a prolific landscape painter and gallerist (the original makeshift invoice for $300 for this book, on his Rubery Bennett Galleries, Middle Cove, letterhead, is loosely inserted). Signed.