CHARLES CONDER
1868-1909 (designer)
FERGUSSON & MITCHELL, MELBOURNE
1857-1890s (printer)

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

CHARLES CONDER

1868-1909 (designer)
FERGUSSON & MITCHELL, MELBOURNE
1857-1890s (printer)
Proof Impression of the Front Cover of The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition Catalogue 1889

engraving
signed '- Charles Conder -' upper left
signed 'CHARLES CONDER' (in plate) lower right
inscribed within image 'THE 9 BY 5 IMPRESSION EXHIBITION OPENED AUGUST 17. 1889 AT BUXTON'S ROOMS ADMISSION 6D SIXPENCE DECORATIONS LENT AND ARRANGED BY MESSRS CULLIS HILL'
14 x 8.6 cm (plate)

• Lot Sold $15,000 (Hammer Price)
• $18,300 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection, United Kingdom
Private Collection, Melbourne
Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Melbourne Rare Book Fair,, Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers, Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne, 27-29 July 2012

Literature

John Thompson, Documents that Shaped Australia: Records of a Nation's Heritage, Pier 9, Sydney, 2010, pp. 152, 153 (illustrated)
Fine Australian Art, Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne, 2008, cover (illustrated), p. 7 (no. 31)
Melbourne Rare Book Fair, Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne, 2012, p. 18 (illustrated)
 
 
 
This work is accompanied by copies of John Thompson’s Documents that Shaped Australia (Pier 9, Sydney, 2010), and of a limited edition facsimile of the 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition catalogue (Peter & John Perry, Castlemaine, circa 1984, no. 6)