Minns B E (12 results)

Hard Cover -. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Color and b/w Illustrations (illustrator). Later Printing. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 120 Color or b/w Illus (illustrator). 97 clean, unmarked pages; dj w/lite wear only pictorial c.

Cloth. Condition: VG/VG. Photographs (Color, B&W) (illustrator). London, UK: Octopus Books. VG/VG. (c1973). . Cloth. 8vo., 97 pp. .

4to. 70pp. Original wrappers, numerous b/w and colour plaates, a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. From the Library of Leslie Linder, 208 pages, beautiful illustrations throughout. First Editions, Rebound copy without illustrated paper covered boards, covers are lightly marked and rubbed, clean and tight internally, in very good condition. Fully bound in coloured cloth; brown, red, grey and blue print internally, 24.2 x 20cm Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. B.E. Minns (illustrator). First edition. Copy 172 of a limitation of 200 copies published. Collects twelve Flaxman stories. Cover illustration by Andrew King. Seventy-two illustrations by B.E. Minns. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Minns B. E. (illustrator). Blue, black & cream illustrated front cover plus title. Cream title to spine. Number81 of a limited edition of 200. With 72 illustration. Internally as new.No damage to covers.

Card Covers with Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Pages 70, colour and b/w illustrations. Last 8 pages in book are for advertisements. Small spot on side of front cover near spine fold., Staples are pulling at spine. Edges of covers are shelf rubbed, due to style of covers. This book dated December 15th, 1932. published six times a year. B.E. Minns Watercolours. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert. Frontis is watercolour of Australian Aboriginal. plus 5 other colour plates and 18 b/w plates. There are two articles on B.E. Minns. A tiny bit of foxing on blank free page at beginning of book. Any queries please email, scan available. Illustrated Cover.

[Drop title]. Sydney : The Motor Press Ltd., 1925. Octavo (225 mm), colour pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper design signed in the image lower right 'B. E. Minns' and incorporating symbols of the United States of America and Australia, including the flags of both nations, the kangaroo and emu, and the New South Wales waratah; lower wrapper with the Australian coat of arms; each of the inside wrappers with a monochrome photogravure illustrating Yankee Doodle and the heroic British stand at Rorke's Drift, respectively; stapled at centre is the double-page Programme; very fine. The striking cover of this official programme for the military tattoo to commemorate the visit of the United States Fleet is illustrated in an article in the Sydney Sun, 30 July 1925, where it is noted that the design of the programme was a collaboration between Captain H. W. Grace and the Sydney commercial artist, B. E. Minns. The event itself was organised by Brigadier General Charles Brand, base commandant of the 2nd Military District (New South Wales), and staged at the Royal Agricultural Society's Showgrounds, Moore Park, with all proceeds going to the T.B. Sailors' & Soldiers' Association and the Limbless Soldiers' Association. Included among the evening's entertainments were re-enactments from the Battle of Omdurman and Rorke's Drift (!) and renditions by the massed bands of Advance Australia Fair and The Star Spangled Banner. Rare. Only two examples traced in Australian collections (SLNSW; UoW Archives, Marjory East Collection).

Sydney 1932. Sm. 4to. Orig. illust. wrapper. (70pp.). With col. frontisp., 23 full-page plates of which 5 are col., and adverts. (Art in Australia, 3rd Series, No. 47, December 1932).

[Sydney : s.n.], 1895. Invitation card, 100 x 160 mm; lithograph printed recto only in sanguine ink on cream card; loss along the bottom edge, verso with residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled byJ. G. O'Connor (1839-1913), Irish-born Sydney journalist, printer, and politician. From the Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February 1895: 'FAREWELL To MR. B. E. MINNS.Mr B E Minns tho well-known artist, beingabout to leave Sydney on a visit to England,upwards of a hundred fellow-artists on Saturdaynight assembled at Paris House to bid him bonvoyag. Mr Hopkins occupied the chair, and hadon his right the guest of the evening, and among theother gentlemen present were Messrs Bloxsome, JAshton, N Hardy, Fullwood P Spence, Mahoney,Grifliths, Loudon, Fischer, Soutar, Fuller, Streeter,Holdsworth, Archibald, M'Leod, Daplyn, Tindall,Liter, S Long and Vann. A capital repastwas done full justice to, many of those presentpartaking of the dinner with coats off, and with aslittle conventionality as possible.The Chairman, on rising to propose bon voyage toMr Minns, the guest of the evening, said there wasa time for work, a time for play, for laughter, andfor sorrow. There was a time to tell the truth abouta man, and a time to praise him. That was an occasion on which they could do all those things.(Cheers) They could praise Mr Minns for hisartistic merit and personal value without departingfrom the truth the whole truth, and nothing but thetruth, and the fact that so many gentIemen had thatevening assembled to do him honour wasevidence of the esteem in which MrMinns was held by his brother artists. Hisdeparture would leave an aching void. The excellence of the artistic work Mr Minns had done in thecolony rendered them satisfied that he would socarry on his work in the larger field as to reflectcredit on himself as an Australian and do honour tothose who had been associated with him throughouthis career In the new sphere to which he wasgoing their guest would find both the atmosphereand conditions favourable to the full development ofhis powers. He would find numerous friends to helphim, and would have a full opportunity of makingthe people in the great centres of art as familiar withthe name of Mr B E Minus as it was in Sydneyamong those who took an interest in art. Mr Minnsmight not be a prophet but he was an artist,and as such was certainly not withouthonour in his own country. He gave themthe health of their guest, and expressedthe wish that his voyage might be a pleasant one,and that he would meet with a reception in the OldWorld which his high qualities as an artist and aman merits (Cheers ).Mr JULIAN ASHTON supported the sentiment.He said they must all feel regret that an artist suchas Mr Minns should be compelled to leave acountry such as this - young rich, and prosperous - because the love of art had notsufficient hold on the people.Mr W M'LEOD also supported the toast He saidMr Minns's talent fully entitled him to the promotionhe was about to receive.Messrs J E Taplin, P J Holdsworth, Lister,and Mahoney also wished the guest bon voyageMr Minns, who was greeted with loud cheering,thanked those present very much for the manner inwhich the toast had been received, and the greathonour they had conferred on him in makinghim their guest that evening. Many of them wereamongst his oldest friends and he felt the separationvery much. He supposed that all must have achange some time or other but he would never forget that occasion or the kindness that his brotherartists had always extended towards him (Cheers).The rest of the toasts were of an informal character, and the remainder of the evening was devotedto conviviality of a pleasant character some excellent music being contributed by gentlemen present.' From the ADB: 'Joseph Graham O'Connor (1839-1913), journalist and politician, was born at Dareen House, King's County, Ireland, son of Stephen O'Connor, tanner and currier, and his wife Ann, née Graham. At 2 he went with his parents to New South Wales. Educated by the Christian Brothers and at the Sydney College, he was apprenticed to a wood engraver and printer. In the late 1850s O'Connor began business as an engraver and printer and in 1860 produced the short-lived Sunbeam for the Catholic Young Men's Society. In 1864 he joined W. B. Dalley, W. J. Macleay and J. J. Harpur in bringing out the unsuccessful Sydney Times, devoted to 'the promotion of Australian literature and the advocacy and encouragement of native industry'. In 1867 he began the Balmain Reporter, one of the earliest suburban newspapers. His journalistic pursuits became more exclusively Irish and Catholic. In 1870-71 he edited and printed the Catholic Association Reporter. In 1876 he had debts of over £1400, sold his press and was not discharged from bankruptcy until 1884 after paying 3s. in the £. In 1877 he had begun the Catholic Times in opposition to the Freeman's Journal. In 1880 Archbishop Vaughan was dissatisfied with the Freeman's independent attitude and bought the Catholic Times, changing its name to the Express. In 1884 O'Connor took it over again and began the Nation, devoted to Irish news; he incorporated it in the Express in 1887. In 1890 debts forced him to close his last newspaper venture and his estate was again sequestered. He had supported his unprofitable newspapers with a mostly successful printing business, but in 1892 his friends had him appointed chief clerk on the Water and Sewerage Board at Newcastle, from which he retired in 1909. As a youth O'Connor had helped to collect funds to relieve the 1858 Donegal famine victims and next year became an original member of the Celtic Association. In 1869-72 he was lay secretary of the Catholic Association, founded by Archbishop Polding in 1867 to support a separate system for Catholic schools. In the 1870s and 1880s he organized several concert tours of country districts to raise.

Sydney : Brooks, [1917]. Square octavo, publisher's pictorial linen wrappers with illustration by Harry Weston (mild foxing front and back, short split along spine), [12] pp (some foxing and staining), with colour and monochrome illustrations by Harry J Weston, D.H. Souter, Percy Leason, Norman Lindsay, David Low and B. E. Minns. A scarce and fragile picture book, seldom seen in very good condition. Muir, 329. Rare.