Life Work Rubery Bennett (10 results)

32.5 x 27.0cms 158pp 28 Colour Illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper (chipped at top of spine) Bennett (b 1893) was an artists' representative and gallerist until he held his first one-man show in 1947. This biography reproduces examples of his traditional landscapes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 4to. pp 66, 27 leaves of colour plates. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Limited edition of 1200 copies, this being no. 312. ISBN: 0959632921 Very good indeed in slightly used, about very good dust jacket.

32.5 x 27.0cms 158pp 28 Colour Illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper (chipped at top of spine) Bennett (b 1893) was an artists' representative and gallerist until he held his first one-man show in 1947. This biography reproduces examples of his traditional landscapes.

32.5 x 27.0cms 158pp 28 Colour Illusts very good hardback (no dustwrapper some insect marks front and back covers spine okay) Bennett (b 1893) was an artists' representative and gallerist until he held his first one-man show in 1947. This biography reproduces examples of his traditional landscapes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 66p. plus 26 tipped in colored plates. Attractive full leather. 37 cm. Brown cloth-covered slipcase (backstrip heavily bumped at bottom). Bookplate (Bernard Gore Brett). Copy No. 140 in an edition limited to 275 copies signed by Rubery Bennett.

66pp+xxvi col. plates, tipped in. Folio. Publisher's morocco, a touch spotted, with raised bands in cloth slipcase. Sepia toned photographic illustrations. A near fine copy. Limited edition : 255 of 275 copies, signed by the artist. The deluxe issue of the standard work on the artist.

66pp+xxvi col. plates, tipped in. Folio. Publisher's morocco, with raised bands in cloth slipcase. Sepia toned photographic illustrations. A near fine copy. Limited edition of 275 copies, signed by the artist. This a proof copy. The deluxe issue of the standard work on the artist.

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).

Sydney : Copperfield, 1979. Folio, full leather, cloth slipcase, pp. 66; 26 tipped-in colour plates. The deluxe edition, limited to 275 copies signed by the artist. Prospectus enclosed.

(Sydney: Copperfield Press, 1979). Folio. Orig. full brown morocco with raised spine bands and gilt title. (66pp.). With tipped-in colour frontisp., 26 tipped-in colour plates and text-illusts. Collector's Edition, limited to 275 numbered copies. In slip-case. Fine.