Brown Men and Women, or the South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896
London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim. 1898. More
London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim. 1898. More
The plates are for W.E.L.H. Crowther (Peake 1246); Sydney V. Hagley (Peake 2299); L. Stenhouse Huntley (Peake 2681); Joan McLennan (Peake 3618); and A.R. Turnbull (not in Peake, but another 49 bookplates by him are there, listed under 'Pierson' in the index of artists). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller..... More
Adelaide, Wigg and Melbourne, Mullen, 1884. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1948. Provenance: J.H. MacGregor-Dowsett, with his armorial bookplate on the verso of the front flyleaf. James Harvey MacGregor-Dowsett (1899-1990), community leader and charity worker: 'on 1 July 1940 Dowsett transferred to the Australian Imperial Force and in the following February was posted to the Middle East..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1890 (first edition). More
London/ Portland, Frank Cass, 2001/ 1848. With the John Dowie-designed bookplate of Audrey Abbie. Cass Library of West Indian Studies Number 19. More
Peake 581. Gerrard Gayfield Shaw (1885-1961) was a prominent Sydney gallerist and etcher. After an unsuccessful stint as a farmer, he 'quickly resumed his art career and concentrated his creative efforts on the production of book plates, which at the time were at the peak of their popularity in Australia..... More
Peake 1737 (dated 'Dec 22 1932' in the image). Gerrard Gayfield Shaw (1885-1961) was a prominent Sydney gallerist and etcher. After an unsuccessful stint as a farmer, he 'quickly resumed his art career and concentrated his creative efforts on the production of book plates, which at the time were at..... More
All plates are recorded by Peake. The plates (one dated in the image 1931, five dated 1932) are for Rev. Geo. Cowie (signed, showing the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the year of its opening); E.G. Boreham (signed, undated in the image but 1931); E.G. Boreham (another design, signed); George Fitzpatrick..... More
London, The Bibliographic Society/ Oxford University Press, 1981. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. ('in Association with the Proprietors of "Punch"'), 1927. Number 80 of 150 copies of this deluxe edition signed by the artist (with 50 copies reserved for sale in the United States). The illustrations were originally published in 'Punch' magazine; the colour plates feature verses by..... More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927. Number 83 of the deluxe edition, limited to only 150 copies signed by Charles Simpson and 'printed on Arnold & Foster hand-made paper, with two extra illustrations in colour'. With the Adrian Feint-designed bookplate of [Sir] James McGregor. More
Manchester, University of Manchester Press, 1929/ 1915. With the pictorial bookplate of Professor Andrew Abbie on the pastedown (dated 1937). Publications of the University of Manchester, Number CII. Ethnological Series Number I. More
London, Butterworths, 1975. With the armorial bookplate of Adelaide barrister Christopher James on the front pastedown. More
The bookplates are for: 1. The Honorable Henry Ayers CMG, Premier of South Australia (circa 1871, before his knighthood in 1872; foxed). Peake 169. 2. Sir Samuel James Way, Bart., Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor of South Australia (after his elevation to the Baronetcy in 1899; signed in the image..... More
London, J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert, 1843. This copy contains the armorial bookplate of Henry Percival Moore (and his pencilled ownership initials on an early binder's blank). Moore was the Colonial Manager for the South Australian Company from 1901 to 1929. Interestingly, the lithographs are by George French Angas from..... More
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1914. Provenance: Sir Edward Wheewall Holden (1885-1947, the influential motor-body builder whose business became a household name), with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. An excess of glue was applied when it was first mounted in the book; the free endpaper adhered to it and..... More
London, Smith, Elder, 1839 [second edition]/ 1839. Apart from dropping the original title ('on the ground [sic] of vagueness and liability to misconstruction') and outing himself as author, only the title page and two-page preface distinguish the first and second edition texts. More
Adelaide, Printed by G. Hassell & Son for the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum, 1918 to 1921. Other major articles in this volume include CILENTO, R.W.: Observations on a Series of Artificially Distorted Skulls (pages 325-346 plus 9 plates); RAINBOW, W.J.: Arachnidae from Lord Howe and Norfolk..... More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1947. Provenance: With the bookplate of Sir Paul Hasluck (1905-1993), who was (among many other things) Minister for Territories from 1951 to 1963 and author of several books on the Australian Aborigines. More
London, Nimmo, 1890. A 'brilliant, though prolix and desultry, portraiture of life in Venice' during the eighteenth century. Number 135 of only 520 sets printed for England (with a further 260 sets for America). This set has an Adrian Feint-designed bookplate of [Sir] James McGregor in each volume. [2 items]..... More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] (slightly marked) of Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown. More
Peake 3886 ('Three figures from "Bounty" mutiny', 1947). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. More
Peake 3887 ('Pegasus', 1933). The small plate is numbered (12/15) and signed in pencil by Thake in the bottom margin. Offered together with a handwritten list of recipients of this bookplate ('Hassell Prints of Thake'). Most of the names are dated January 1934. Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher..... More
London, W. Thacker, 1897 [third edition]/ 1873. From the angling collection of Jock Grey, with his bookplate and small address label. More