Drawn to the word: writers and artists
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844-1900
Also sprach Zarathustra: ein buch fur alle und keinen (Thus spoke Zarathustra: a book for all and none)
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908
block print and letterpress on paper in gilded leather binding
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland / RB 193 1908
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Christian Waller 1875-1956
The great breath: a book of seven designs
Melbourne, Victoria: Golden Arrow Press, 1932
linocut on drafting film on paper in linen folder
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland / RB 761.3 1932
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Virgil 70-19 BCE
The eclogues of Virgil
London: Emery Walker for the Cranach Press, 1927
woodblock print and letterpress on handmade paper in paper over board binding
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland / RB 871.01 VIR/B 1927
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Dante Alighieri 1265-1321
The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: the prose translation
New York: Bruce Rogers, 1955
illustrations from designs by Sandro Botticelli 1444 or 1445-1510
woodblock print and letterpress on paper in gilded leather binding
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland / RB 851.15 DAN/B 1955
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Alexander Pope 1688-1744
The rape of the lock: an heroi-comical poem in five cantos
London: Leonard Smithers, 1897
lithograph and letterpress on paper in gilded vellum binding
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland / RB 821.5 POP/B 1897
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Cantiques des cantiques de Salomon
Paris: Cranach Press, 1931
wood engraving and letterpress on Japanese paper in marbled paper over board binding
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland / RB 223.9 1931
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The story of how Amnon ravished his sister Thamar for which Absalom killed him, as it is written in the second book of Kings
Pigotts, Buckinghamshire: Printed by Rene Hague and Eric Gill, 1930
wood engraving and letterpress on paper in paper wrapper
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland / RB 222.44052 1930
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Norman Lindsay 1879-1969
Jack Lindsay 1900-1990
Sappho fl. c. 610-c. 580 BCE
A homage to Sappho
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1928
etching, letterpress and gilding on paper in gilded vellum binding
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland / RBHLIN FAN
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Aubrey Beardsley 1872-1898
Under the hill and other essays in prose and verse
London: John Lane, 1904
printed book in gilded and stamped cloth binding
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland / RB 741.942 B 1904
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