Orpheus: The Song of Forever (1983) (Charles Blackman) (Signed with Loose Lithograph)

Bound in decorated cloth and housed in the original blue cloth slipcase. 38cm x 29.5cm. Deluxe edition. Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, signed by both author and artist, and issued with an original signed lithograph loosely inserted. This is number 22. Reimagines the myth of Orpheus through a series of poetic stories and dreamlike images. Illustrated throughout with tipped-in colour plates by the major Australian figurative artist Charles Blackman. Condition: slight blemish to bottom right corner of slipcase’s rear panel, otherwise fine.