Teague Violet (4 results)

8vo. 34pp. Original pictorial cloth backed wrappers. Colour woodcuts throughout, illustrated endpapers. A near fine copy. Facsimile of the 1906 original.

Col.Ill.wrapps. unpag. col & b/w ills. The wrappers have been rebacked with cloth else a Very good copy. The rare original edition of this book was printed in 1905.

Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. [Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, c. 2005]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, cloth spine, unpaginated, french folds in the style of the original publication from 1905. Fine copy. ?In 1905 Violet Teague, in collaboration with her friend Geraldine Rede, handprinted Night Fall in the Ti-Tree at the Sign of the Rabbit Press, in the Teague family home at 89 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nine decades later the charm of this book remains, the National Gallery of Australia having published a facsimile edition in 1988. Although Teague produced other prints and illustrated other books her reputation as a graphic artist rests on this publication? Roger Butler, Violet Teague and Japonisme, Printed Works, in Violet Teague 1872 ? 1951, The Beagle Press, 1999. The facsimile of the original copy in the National Gallery of Australia.

At the head of title: Greetings from Australia. Melbourne : Pater's Printery, [c.1911]. Square duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers with yapp edges (edges worn, a couple of small chips), original string tie, printed title page, [11] eleven chromolithographic plates of Australian birds in natural settings; a good copy. Muir 704. A rare publication - both a souvenir and a children's book - designed and illustrated by Violet Teague and Geraldine Rede, the two Australian artists most famous for their 1905 publicationNight fall in the ti-tree.