Lot 138

Textile covered folio in fair condition with some moisture stains.
Booklet and linocuts inside folio are in very good condition.
Interior of folio lined in paper, paper split at folds & upper fold significantly darkened.
Paper of booklet in very good condition, uniform in colour with only slight waving of some pages.
The printed text is clear and sharp and the linocuts are in excellent condition.
The linocuts are hinged along the upper edge with a thin line of glue which has not affected the artwork.
The first artwork has come loose from the page but all other prints remain attached.


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Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 14 September 2017, lot 3134
Private collection, Canberra

Waller established the Golden Arrow Press within which she created The Great Breath: A Book of Seven Designs, her best printed work. The production was entirely undertaken by Waller; all aspects from the cutting and printing of the linoblocks to the manufacture of the distinctive gold-painted emerald green cover was done by hand. Each book took about four days to make, and although she had intended to produce an edition of 150, it seems only about 30 were made.