Hoff Rayner (3 results)

4to. 90pp. Original plain board in dustwrapper. . B&W photographic illustrations Some slight restoration at backstrip, but an unusually bright clean copy. . First edition. From the collection of Australian academic and art historian Leigh Astbury with his signature.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited. Hardback, original pictorial tan cloth, with design in red, in original pictorial dust-wrapper. A clear removable wrapper over d/w. 33cm x 25cm. 113pp, [5]. Original colour linocut frontispiece by the artist, signed and titled in pencil. 47 tipped-in photographic plates of sculpture by Hoff. No. 13 of a limited edition of only 100 copies, signed by the contributors, the sculptor, and printer to colophon at front. D/w slightly darkened and frayed to edges, with small losses to spine ends. Edges of binding a little darkened. Private ownership.

With text by the Rt. Hon. the Earl Beauchamp, K.G., K.C.M.G., Howard Ashton, E.C. Temple Smith and W. Bede Dalley. Sydney : Sunnybrook Press, 1934. Quarto, illustrated cloth, dustjacket (very slight edge wear, a fine copy), pp. 113; [8]. Limited to 100 copies, signed by all contributors, the artist and publisher, with an original signed linocut by Rayner Hoff tipped-in. The fourth book from the press. Rare. Exhibition history (another copy) : People, print & paper : a catalogue of a travelling exhibition celebrating the books of Australia, 1788-1988.Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988. The entry for this book is as follows: Hoff, Rayner,1894-1937.Sculpture of Rayner Hoff. Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, 1934. Perhaps the finest book on an Australian sculptor, the fourth book of Earnest Shea's private press. The forty-nine plates are a rare example in Aus- tralia of collotype printing. The collotype process is perhaps the most satisfactory method of repro- ducing both monochrome and colour in fine detail. Printing is done from a glass plate prepared by printing a negative on a gelatine film containing dichromate. Although the technology needed is not particularly elaborate, it is a slow and costly method, more demanding of the printer's skill than any other process. Provenance : Bernard Gore Brett, his armorial bookplate to front pastedown, Christie's clip loosely enclosed, with a typed note from Brett regarding a medal designed by Hoff.