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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ruby Lind (Lindsay) (illustrator). First Edition. Not Dated [1912 BL] Author was a journalist and social-welfare advocate. CONDITION Brown bds with bright gilt titles, 81 pages printed on untrimmed rag paper, full colour frontis plate with undamaged tissue guard with 9 illus plates and a nice engraved tail piece. Copy is mostly very bright and crisp with insect speckling to front cover, faded strip at top rear cover and lightly toned end pages, penciled name for ffep. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated, essay, catalogue. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 4to. A good plus copy with cream cloth spine lettered in gilt and brown paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper board. Lower board a little marked. Top edge gilt. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. 51 pages including four-page introduction to the artist. Tipped-in frontispiece of Ruby Lind. Illustration to title page and contents page + 20 full-page illustrations including 3 in colour. The last ten illustrations have titled tissue-guards. The first ten are titled at the foot of the illustration. Ruby Lind (or Lindsay) was an Australian illustrator and artist who died in the Spanish flu pandemic just after the end of the First World War. This book was published as a tribute to her. Photographs available on request.

Ruby Lindsay (20 March 1885 - 12 March 1919), also known as Ruby Lind, was a talented Australian illustrator, painter, and cartoonist, born in Creswick, Victoria. As the seventh child and second daughter of Robert and Jane Lindsay, she came from an artistic family. Lindsay studied at the National Gallery of Victoria School and went on to work as an illustrator for various publications, including The Bulletin. She used multiple pseudonyms, such as "Ruby Lyne," "Ruby Lyn," "Ruby Ramsbottom," and "Ruby Lind." Highly regarded by critics, she was described by Haldane MacFall as "the most remarkable woman in the pen-line now living" in his 'History of Painting'. This fine example of the beautiful penmanship of Ruby Lind, Lind's work, some of which was published, shows a lightness of touch, a sensitive style and a promise of greatness that was not to be fulfilled. Three of her brothers - Percy, Lionel and Norman - all had established careers as illustrators, and by 1906 Ruby had found work in Melbourne on the Gadfly, a satirical weekly of politics, humour and the arts. She was then 19 years old and had already met her future husband, the artist Will Dyson. Although it was particularly difficult for a woman artist to do so in the early 1900s, Ruby found further work as an illustrator and provided eleven drawings for Back At Our Selection, the now classic Steele Rudd magazine. In 1909 she left for England with her husband, where both found their work prospered. They were much in love and a moving letter from Will written in 1918 displays his adoration: "never by any circumstances moral or physical did I deserve the wife I got". Within months she was dead, a victim of the 1919 influenza epidemic. Vance Palmer wrote of her that "Ruby was one of those rare beings who filled all who knew her with a happy feeling that in her joy, loveliness and goodness had, by some miracle, come together on earth". Ruby Lindsay's work is rarely offered for sale. This drawing captures the elegance of her art celebrated in the memorial volume 'The Drawings of Ruby Lind 'and published in 1920 by Cecil Palmer. Ruby Lind died when she was 33. In this illustration, we see a young woman, barefoot with flowing locks of hair, dances towards 'THE END' with her partner, a skeleton in full evening dress and a top hat touting a glass of champagne. Despite her short life, Ruby Lind's works remain in notable museum collections, such as the National Gallery of Australia, and continue to be celebrated in exhibitions and publications dedicated to Australian art. Original signed pen and ink drawing, ? mm x ? mm, signed 'Ruby Lind' . (Paired with a first edition of 'The Drawings of Ruby Lind', bound in original papered boards with buckram spine, gilt, 230mm x 290mm, 52 pages, photographic frontis tipped-in, 20 full-page illustrations including 3 in colour and 6 sketches printed on card; a good copy only.).

[London : Cecil Palmer, 1919]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers over cards (spine reinforced with binder's tape), pp. 39, sparse foxing, with a Ruby Lindsay reproduction on the front wrapper and title page (no further illustrations). Signed and inscribed by Will Dyson, Ruby Lindsay's husband, on the title page.