759.994 BOY

Pretty amazing print spec on this book, with offical bible texts and other texts printed in black on pulp paper with colour plates printed on coated stock and trimmed to size are tipped-in1,a lot of them, throughout the large book. It's also the only publication where they specify that the binding (I'm assuming that means the tipping in too) was done somewhere else, in this case a different country. I can't even imagine how much a book like that would cost to make now and where you would find finishers to do the tipping in efficently as it is such an outdated method and I would have thought that was the case in the 1970s too. All that is to say I'm assuming this book had a pretty large budget adn exists in two concurrent editions, and that says a lot about how Boyd's work was thought of at the time of publication. Boyd is a very recognisable Australian artist, I don't know much about him but do think his landscape work tells something interesting about his gaze on Country, there is a feeling of distance, something uncanny or unknowable.