Australian Bookplates and Bookplates of Interest to Australia
Sydney, [The Author], 1950. Number 76 of the standard issue of 200 copies signed by the author; a further 100 copies in two deluxe editions were also published. More
Sydney, [The Author], 1950. Number 76 of the standard issue of 200 copies signed by the author; a further 100 copies in two deluxe editions were also published. More
Sydney, [The Author], 1932. Number 163 of 300 signed copies of the standard edition; there was also a deluxe edition of 120 copies. Provenance: Johannes Larsen, with his small name-stamp on the title page and his pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown (this Australian bookplate and its artist, M.G. Wood..... More
Sydney, Tyrrell's Galleries, 1930. The colophon, signed by Barnett, states that the book is 'Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers'. In fact, the original printing was unillustrated. In the Book Collectors' Society of Australia 2009 publication on Barnett, the bibliography by..... More
Sydney, Tyrrell's Galleries, 1930. The colophon, signed by Barnett, states that the book is 'Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers'. In fact, the original printing was unillustrated. In the Book Collectors' Society of Australia 2009 publication on Barnett, the bibliography by..... More
[Sydney, The Author, 1938]. Inscribed, dated (1939) and signed by Barnett. Basically a catalogue of Barnett's publications, 'Limited de luxe editions designed and published by the author and printed by Harrie P. Mortlock's Beacon Press'. The mounted Japanese prints were 'two of the smaller illustrations from "Japanese Colour-Prints"'. The bookplate..... More
Sydney, Privately Printed (for the Author by the Beacon Press), 1951. Number 21 of only 100 signed copies. More
Sydney, Australian Ex Libris Society, 1930. Number 258 of only 300 copies. Articles include 'The Bookplate work of Norman Lindsay' by Hugh McCrae (with 8 bookplates reproduced); 'Bibliography of Ex Libris Literature published in Australia' by Camden Morrisby; and 'An Old Album: Ruminations' by P. Neville Barnett. More
[Sydney, The Author, 1952]. Inscribed and signed by Barnett on the first page (which also carries the small name-stamp of Johannes Larsen). A checklist of Barnett's publications on bookplates and Japanese prints, with reprints of articles on him (and them) by Al Milgrom, Alan Yates and Alan Rigby (the first..... More