Donald Friend - three volumes of unpublished original artwork and manuscripts collated, inscribed and bound by his publisher, Richard Griffin

MLMSS 6219/Box 1X

fonds

1980 - 1982, 1991

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings, Clippings, Photographs

134960

0.16 metres of textual and graphic material (3 volumes in outsize box) - Bound by Richard Griffin in oasis morocco "harlequin" designs, set with semi-precious stones, in slipcase covered in batik cotton fabric from one of Friend's sarongs.
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Drawings - pen & ink - watercolour : ;
Clippings - collage
Photographs

1980; Volume 1 : 'Some Hasty-tasty Preliminary Studies & Sketches for Several Projects of an Artistic Nature, presently to be carried out with all possible Skill and Ingenuity, in the pious hope of pleasing the Fickle Public for the sake of Monetary Gain; also for Personal Satisfaction, Private Pleasure and Selfless Devotion to the Cause of Cultural Improvement in the Southern Hemisphere. Melbourne MCMLXXX' In four parts : 'Adders for Angst'; Adelaide via Robe'; 'Some Preliminary and Unedited Texts'; ' Variations on Ant[h]ropomorphic Themes'. Includes watercolour sketches, pen & ink drawings, copies of label designs for Petaluma winery, collage, manuscript text.
1982; Volume 2 : 'Some Superb Collages of an Artistic & Educational Nature carried out in the pious hope of pleasing the Fickle Public and out of Selfless Devotion to the Cause of Cultural Improvement in the Southern Hemisphere. Melbourne, MCMLXXXII'. In two parts : 'Art' and 'Education'; contains pen drawings and manuscript text combined with newspaper headlines and other cut-outs.
1991; Volume 3 : 'Some fragments of a proposed dissertation on Title-Page Designs to which is appended two bookplate designs & A brief checklist of books together with selected illustrations, prospectuses and other relevant and not so relevant material by the renowned artist author & raconteur Donald Friend. Compiled by his devoted publisher Richard Griffin, 1991'