ISBN10: 0947131280, ISBN13: 9780947131289, [publisher: Rigby, Adelaide, 1989] Hardcover 27.0 x 24.0cms, 352pp, colour illusts, well used hardcover & dustwrapper (ex-library with reinforced hinges, no external library markings) This book has chapters on: explorers, first fleeters & convicts; the colonists; the 1850s, 1860s & 1870s; the 1880s & 1890s - Victoria & New South Wales: the 1880s & 1890s - the other states; the 20th century to 1914; the artists of the First World War; the boom of the 1920s; the Australian Watercolour Institute; contemporary stirrings in Sydney; the 1930s; the Aranda watercolourists; the Second World War; the 1940s; the 1950s & 1960s - Sydney & the abstract painters; the 1950s & 1960s - developments in Victoria; the 1950s & 1960s - developments in the other states; watercolour painters in the 1970s; present day attitudes to watercolour; biographical listing of Australian watercolour painters.
[Sydney, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0947131280, ISBN13: 9780947131289, [publisher: Rigby, Adelaide, 1989] Hardcover 27.0 x 24.0cms, 352pp, colour illusts, very good hardcover & dustwrapper (some foxing) This book has chapters on: explorers, first fleeters & convicts; the colonists; the 1850s, 1860s & 1870s; the 1880s & 1890s - Victoria & New South Wales: the 1880s & 1890s - the other states; the 20th century to 1914; the artists of the First World War; the boom of the 1920s; the Australian Watercolour Institute; contemporary stirrings in Sydney; the 1930s; the Aranda watercolourists; the Second World War; the 1940s; the 1950s & 1960s - Sydney & the abstract painters; the 1950s & 1960s - developments in Victoria; the 1950s & 1960s - developments in the other states; watercolour painters in the 1970s; present day attitudes to watercolour; biographical listing of Australian watercolour painters.
[Sydney, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 1989]

Craftsman House, Date: 1989-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.2500 11.7500 10.5000. 1989. Craftsman House ISBN 0947131280 9780947131289 [US]

ISBN10: 0947131280, ISBN13: 9780947131289, [publisher: Craftsman House, Roseville, N. S. W., Australia] Hardcover "Detailed Critical Examination of all the Major Exponents of Watercolour in Australia over the last 2 Centuries." Well illustrated with Colour and Monochrome Reproductions. Green cloth cover with Gilt Lettering on spine. 11 1/2" Tall, 2.3 Kilos, 394 Pages. No inscriptions. Some specks of browning on top page edges. Very slight wear to jacket. Book weighs 2.3 Kilos so Shipping Outside UK will be extra. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
[Penzance, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0947131280, ISBN13: 9780947131289, [publisher: Craftsman House, Australia] Hardcover First Edition Book appears as new and unread - contents pages pristine. Fly-leaves slightly faded/yellowed. Moss-green boards have 'faded' interestingly to a more vivid green on spine, with gilt lettering title having acquired a 'shadow'. A few marks along top edge of pages. Dust jacket has full-colour illustration of 'Dora Creek' by J.J. Hilder (1916). Heavily illustrated throughout in black-and-white as well as colour, the author provides a detailed critical examination of all the major exponents of watercolour in Australia over the previous 200 years - beginning with the early European explorers and navigators who wanted to make pictorial records of its landscape, its unusual (to them) flora and fauna, and of its indigenous inhabitants. This is a very heavy book, weighing over 2kg, and will require extra postage.
[Plymouth, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

Australia Craftsman House 1989 1st Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. pp. 394. Book appears as new and unread-contents pages pristine. Fly-leaves slightly faded/yellowed. Moss-green boards have 'faded' interestingly to a more vivid green on spine, with gilt lettering title having acquired a 'shadow'. A few marks along top edge of pages. Dust jacket has full-colour illustration of 'Dora Creek' by J.J. Hilder (1916). Heavily illustrated throughout in black-and-white as well as colour, the author provides a detailed critical examination of all the major exponents of watercolour in Australia over the previous 200 years-beginning with the early European explorers and navigators who wanted to make pictorial records of its landscape, its unusual (to them) flora and fauna, and of its indigenous inhabitants. This is a very heavy book, weighing over 2kg, and will require extra postage.