A hand-coloured linocut bookplate for K.B.M. (Katherine Blake Muir, the daughter of Harry and Marcie Muir), together with the original linoleum block and subsequent process block
All items are essentially in fine condition.
Peake 3890 (recording the date 1964). This would make it one of the last of over 220 bookplates produced by Perrottet between 1929 and 1964. The New Australian Bookplate Society's Newsletter Number 16 (March 2010) has a lengthy article by Dr Mark Ferson on 'The linocut bookplates of GD Perrottet (1890-1971)'. It contains the following extract from a 1966 letter to fellow bookplate artist-collector Ella Dwyer: 'Bookplates are a very small feature of my life now - as far as execution is concerned, my tally over the last few years is 1961, 5 - 1962, 3 - 1964, 5, since then nothing. I had come to the conclusion that collecting was dead'. Provenance: the Muir family. [3 items].
Item #133172
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