Complete Works: Singer of the Bush, 1885–1900 & Song of the Pen, 1901–1941 (Deluxe Limited First Edition)

PATERSON, Andrew Barton 'Banjo' (collected & intro. Rosamund Campbell & Philippa Harvie; illus. Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Frank Mahony, Neville Cayley, Edward Borein, W. Lister, W. Longstaff, V. Bowring, et al.). Complete Works: Singer of the Bush, 1885–1900 & Song of the Pen, 1901–1941. Sydney: Lansdowne Press, 1983. 2 vols.

4to. Both volumes bound in full brown calf. Housed together in matching brown calf solander case. Singer of the Bush: 723 pp; Song of the Pen: xxvi, 790 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with black and white and colour plates, photographs, and line drawings, including works by Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Frank Mahony, Neville Cayley, Edward Borein, W. Lister, W. Longstaff, and V. Bowring. Deluxe Commemorative Limited Edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies, this being number 289. Includes an original signed artwork entitled "The Homestead," signed by editors Rosamund Campbell and Philippa Harvie.

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (1864–1941) is, by any reasonable measure, the most widely loved poet Australia has produced: the author of "Waltzing Matilda," Australia's unofficial national anthem, and of "The Man from Snowy River," a ballad so thoroughly absorbed into the national imagination that it has given its name to a mountain range, a film, and an entire register of Australian bush mythology. 

This Lansdowne edition, published in 1983, was the first occasion on which the entirety of Paterson's literary output; his poetry, short stories, novels, memoirs, journalism, children's stories, and wartime dispatches, was gathered into a single comprehensive edition. It remains the definitive and most complete edition of Paterson's work ever produced. The illustration programme draws on an extraordinary roster of significant Australian artists of Paterson's own era and after.

The deluxe commemorative edition, of which this is number 289 of 350, distinguishes itself from the standard trade edition in both its construction and its contents. Both volumes are bound in full leather and housed in a beautiful solander case. It also includes an original artwork signed by the volumes' editors and compilers, Rosamund Campbell and Philippa Harvie, whose scholarly work assembling and introducing this edition made its publication possible.

Fine throughout. Beautifully preserved and presents well.

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Catalogue Number: HH000691