Item #132768 An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints. Henry Blake MUIR, Harry.
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints
[MUIR, Henry Blake (Harry)]

An important archive of the complete suite of bookplates designed for Harry Muir, including many preparatory drawings, original printing blocks, and proof prints

The archive comprises:

1. Sara Eugenia Blake: an etched bookplate (Peake 3869: 'Juvenilia | H.B. Muir'). One signed copy, with the original zinc plate.

2. Sara Eugenia Blake: an etched bookplate depicting a Persian or Mughal figure (Peake 3870: 'Indian Man'). Six signed proof copies printed in different coloured inks (one extensively hand-coloured), with the original zinc plate.

3. Tom R. Bond: a process bookplate (Peake 3871: 'Mask', incorrectly dated 1937). One proof copy signed and dated (1933) by the artist and numbered 10/10, plus ten further proof prints (on different paper stocks, some untrimmed). With the original India ink drawing and process block.

4. Adrian Feint: a process bookplate (Peake 3872: 'Desk, open window, river', 1936). One copy signed by the artist, and another on Japanese paper (likely a proof). With the original ink drawing and process block.

5. John Barclay Godson: an etched bookplate depicting the devil (Peake 3873: 'Devil's face', 1934). One signed remarque proof, with a preliminary pencil drawing and the original copper plate. With a list in Harry Muir's hand regarding distribution of copies of the bookplate.

6. John Goodchild: a process bookplate depicting a ship at sea (Peake 3874: 'Galleon and seagull', 1932). Four copies, two identified as proofs by Harry Muir on the reverse ('Delmonts proof of bookplate. 1st Sept 1932', and 'Hassells proof of bookplate from Delmonts zinc block'). With a preliminary pencil drawing (signed by Harry Muir, identifying the artist), the final large ink drawing (146 × 102 mm, with a pencil note to 'Reduce ¼ size'), and the original process block.

7. John Goodchild: a process bookplate depicting a one-legged pedlar selling prints (Peake 3875: 'Autolycus selling from tray', 1932). With the original process block.

8. John Goodchild: a three-colour linocut and process bookplate (Peake 3877: 'Glass enlarging galleon plate', 1943). One copy with the three original blocks (two linoleum and one process block).

9. Peter Hosokawa: a bookplate featuring two whales (Peake 3878: 'Two whales', 1980). Number 31 of 100 signed copies; printed on blue paper.

10. Jane Hylton: a process bookplate depicting poppy kernels (Peake 3879: 'Poppy kernels'). With the original process block (heavily tarnished).

11. George David Perrottet: a three-colour linocut bookplate depicting a ship under a crescent moon (Peake 3882: 'Sailing ship against crescent moon', 1933). Two copies, one untrimmed and signed by the artist. With all three original linoleum blocks, plus three process blocks (heavily oxidised), possibly prepared for Muir's 1942 publication on Perrottet's bookplates.

12. George David Perrottet: a hand-coloured two-colour linocut bookplate for Muir's books by and on John Galsworthy (Peake 3880: 'Monkey with orange', 1936). With both original linoleum blocks.

13. George David Perrottet: a two-colour linocut bookplate featuring the exterior of Muir's bookshop (Peake 3881: 'H B Muir bookshop', 1939). One signed proof copy on fine paper, plus a copy of the standard version.

14. Derek Riley: a woodcut bookplate featuring bookstalls (Peake 3883: 'Bookstalls with church tower behind'). One signed proof copy (inscribed by the artist 'Opus 22', dated 1980). With the original woodblock.

15. Derek Riley: a woodcut bookplate featuring a tiki (Peake 3884: 'New Zealand tiki'). Signed proof copy (inscribed by the artist 'Opus 35', dated 1981; mounted in a card bifolium, also signed and dated), and a copy of the standard version. With the original woodblock.

16. Leslie Victor Smith: an etched bookplate showing maps of Canada and Australia (Peake 3885: 'Tree embracing maps of Canada & Australia', 1943). One copy, signed by the artist. With the original copper plate, and an autograph letter (1943, with the original envelope) to Muir from this Canadian artist, primarily regarding the bookplate (it appears he produced it as a gift, without Muir's knowledge, and sent him twelve signed proof copies).

17. Eric Thake: a process bookplate for Muir's collection of books on Bligh and the 'Bounty' (Peake 3886: 'Three figures from "Bounty" mutiny', giving the date 1947). With two ink drawings (a preliminary version and the final version dated '1945-1948'), and the original process block.

18. Eric Thake: a process bookplate featuring a chained Pegasus (Peake 3887: 'Pegasus', 1933). Number 9 of 15 proof copies signed by the artist, plus two further copies (one signed). With the original ink drawing and two lists in Muir's hand regarding distribution of the proof copies.

19. Noel Wood: a linocut bookplate (Peake 3888: 'Eagle on rock', 1932). One untrimmed remarque proof (number 5 of six copies, almost certainly printed by the artist), two copies of a more crisply-printed version (possibly process; one with Muir's annotation on the verso stating that it is a 'Hassell's print'). With a preliminary ink drawing (mistakenly giving Muir's middle initial as M, not B).

20. John Goodchild: an offset-printed bookplate for Muir's holiday house Petrel Cottage at Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor (Peake 3876: 'Seagulls', 1938).

21. George David Perrottet (possibly): two linoleum blocks for a second bookplate for Petrel Cottage (a two-colour linocut, very much in the style of Perrottet). This bookplate was apparently never published. Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. [A quantity].

Item #132768

Price (AUD): $11,000.00