The Letters of Thomas Moore. Volume II: 1818-1847
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1964. Provenance: the New Zealand collector and photographic historian Hardwicke Knight (1911-2008), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1964. Provenance: the New Zealand collector and photographic historian Hardwicke Knight (1911-2008), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. More
Leeds, Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1971. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1974. Provenance: Professor Andrew Abbie, with his bookplate (annotated by him 'Pat & Ifor Thomas 8/2/75', with Pat Thomas née Mawson) on the verso of the half-title. The signature of his wife Audrey (1976) is on the front pastedown. More
London, Capemoss, 1975. With the armorial bookplate of Adelaide barrister Christopher James on the front pastedown. More
London, Butterworths, 1975. With the armorial bookplate of Adelaide barrister Christopher James on the front pastedown. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1976 (facsimile edition)/ 1886. With the armorial bookplate of Dr Roger Angove. With an eight-page bibliography of the Northern Territory (plus extra material in the appendix). Peade A200: only 518 copies. More
Milan, Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino - La Goliardica, 1976 (facsimile edition)/ 1902. Number 197 of an unspecified limited edition. Provenance: Ann and Geoffrey Long, with their bookplate, designed by Pixie O'Harris, on the front pastedown. More
London, Folio Society, 1977 (fifth impression)/ 1969. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1977. With the tropical bookplate of British anthropologist Dr Henry Evans Maude (1906 - 2006), who specialised in Pacific studies. ASAO Monograph Number 5. More
London, Methuen & Co Ltd/ Sweet and Maxwell, 1977/ 1937 (second edition)/ 1924, 1973/ 1937 (second edition)/ 1925, 1978/ 1966 and 1972. Provenance: Chris James (an Adelaide barrister), with his armorial bookplate and ownership stamps in each volume. [4 items]. More
Willowdale, North York Public Library, 1978 [and] 1981. With the bookplate of Geoffrey Farmer. Canadiana Collection Publication Numbers 1 and 2. More
London, Stobart and Son, 1979 [facsimile]/ 1729 (fifth edition). With the John Dowie-designed bookplate of Audrey Abbie. One of 500 copies. More
Frederikshavn, Exlibristen, 1980. Number 165 of only 190 copies. Loosely inserted is the bookplate of the author, designed by Friedrich Britze; laid down on the verso of the front cover is the bookplate of Ann and Geoffrey Long (designed by Pixie O'Harris). More
London, The Bibliographic Society/ Oxford University Press, 1981. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More
Adelaide, The Authors/ Axiom Books Pty Ltd, 1981. Inscribed and signed in ink by Stewart Cockburn 'For Kathleen. For being so patient an audience! Best wishes'. Provenance: Christopher James, an Adelaide barrister, with his armorial bookplate. Above Cockburn's inscription he has written '(My Mother)'. More
Esher, Edward Burrett at The Penmiel Press, 1985. Number 52 of 150 copies (140 of which were for sale) signed by the author/ publisher. With the bookplate of Ann and Geoffrey Long, designed by Pixie O'Harris. More
Frederikshavn, The Bookplate Society/ Forlaget Exlibristen, 1986. One of 900 signed copies. More
Sydney, Australian National University Press, 1987. Provenance: Pat Cmielewski, with her three-colour bookplate (from her own design). More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More
Cobargo, Croft Press (printed and bound there for the Author), 1993. Number 9 of 20 special copies with 'an additional double spread and 4 extra H.B. Muir bookplates'. The standard issue comprised 200 copies signed by the author (numbered 21-220, with each one containing two tipped-in bookplates 'from Harry Muir's..... More
Ellenton, Opuscula Press, 1995. With the pictorial bookplate of G.A.Stafford, designed by Katharine Stafford. More
London, Bibliographical Society, 1997. More
Melbourne, Hyland House, 1997. Provenance: the Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), with his bookplate. 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
London, The Bibliographical Society/ The British Library/ The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, 2008. More
Amsterdam, Schelterns and Giltay, (n.d.). Dutch text. More
[1] A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland.... Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Thomas Park (5 volumes; London, printed for John Scott, 1806). [2] Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third.... Edited, with notes, by Sir Denis Le Marchant..... More
Provenance: Frank Trigg (1876-1963), with his personal 'Conchological Library' bookplate on the front pastedowns, his annotations on the front flyleaves, and his occasional signature or initials. Frank Trigg 'held the office as treasurer and committeeman of the Field Naturalists' section [of the RGGS] for a number of years. He was..... More
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..... More
All the bookplates are recorded by Peake. George David Perrottet (1890-1971), 'although technically an amateur artist, was one of Australia's most admired and prolific bookplate designers, producing over 220 bookplates between 1929 and 1964' (Mark Ferson, in The New Australian Bookplate Society Newsletter, Number 16, March 2010). Most of the..... More
All of the bookplates are recorded by Peake. Most of the plates are relief prints from process blocks, but two have the pencilled annotation 'N. Lindsay | Wood' on the reverse. These two are the very early plates for H.R. Conant (1897) and R. Parkinson (circa 1898), and appear to..... More
All the bookplates are recorded by Peake. They are for Hans Heysen, Peter Lindsay, Jim Tyrrell, Camden Morrisby, W. Halberg, J.W. Gellert, C.F. Wymark, R.H. Croll and Keith Wingrove. The last two are process prints; the others are wood engravings. Offered together with a duplicate typescript checklist of Lindsay's bookplates..... More
The plates (16 wood-engravings and one etching) are for: 1. Elizabeth, Duchess of York (hand-coloured, signed, hinged onto stiff paper); 2. Edward, Prince of Wales; 3. Alice D. Gould (signed); 4. Mary Wilson Blackwood (printed in blue, signed); 5. Gretchen Borsdorff (signed); 6. Freda Nesbitt (signed, printed in two colours);..... More
Ella Margaret Dwyer (1887-1979), Hobart-born but a longtime resident of Sydney, was a printmaker and bookplate designer. Fellow bookplate artist George Perrottet contributed an article, 'The Etched Bookplates of Ella Dwyer', to the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers' Year Book in 1942. The bookplates offered here are all..... More
All plates are recorded by Peake. Allan Holder Jordan (1898-1982), artist and art educator at Swinburne Art School in Melbourne, produced 71 bookplates between 1939 and 1958 (Robert Littlewood: 'Ten Bookplates by Allan Jordan', 2014). The plates in this group are predominantly wood engravings, and there are no duplicates. All..... More
The group comprises: 1. Eight bookplates by Slovak artist Stanislav Kollárik (all signed, including one in two different versions on paper and linen). 2. Twelve bookplates for Slovak artist Karol Izakovic by various Russian and Slovak artists (five plates signed; three duplicates). 4. The catalogue and invitation to an exhibition..... More
This charming collection comprises: 1. The final preparatory artwork for the bookplate by George Perrottet under Muir's maiden name, Marcie Collett (India ink and watercolour on card, 105 × 77 mm), tipped-in inside a small card bifolium inscribed 'Sketch for lino cut Bookplate' and signed by Perrottet on the front..... 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
The plates, all recorded by Peake, are for F.C.V. Lane (etched); John P. Ferris (etched); Geoffrey A. Johnson (etched); Harold J. Howes (halftone); and John Lane Mullins (halftone). Harold Byrne (1899-1966) 'produced at least 95 plates between 1933 and 1943. Little is known of his life and artistic output. He..... More
The bookplates, in uniformly fine condition, are all recorded by Peake. They are for the artist himself (signed); Philip Neville Barnett (signed); Mollie and Gerald Walters (signed); Alison Ellis (signed); Lyster Ormsby (signed); and Arthur Robinson. Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. [6 items]..... 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
Peake 3066 and 3078 respectively. Lloyd Frederic Rees (1895-1988) is far better known for his early pencil drawings, his award-winning landscapes, and his late etchings and lithographs. Frederick Claude Vivian Lane (1879-1969), a master printer, was the compiler of 'The Bookplates of Norman Lindsay', published by Harry Muir's Wakefield Press..... More
The small wood engraving (paper size 80 × 60 mm, with slight traces of earlier mounting on the verso) is signed in pencil on the bottom margin. Peake 3223. Peter Hammon Lindsay (1908-1998) was the only child of Percy Lindsay, and nephew of Norman, Lionel and Daryl. Provenance: H.B. (Harry)..... More
The bookplates are for Walter W. Stone (Peake 5037), and Jo Swinburne (Peake 5111: see under 'Swinburne, Adelaide (Jo)', where it is incorrectly attributed to Peter Lindsay). Raymond Lindsay (1903-1960), was the second son of Norman Lindsay. Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. [2..... More
The bookplates, in fine condition, are for 1. Ynys Ormsby (Peake 4097, listed under the name of her husband, Lyster Ormsby; woodcut; signed by the artist). 2. Hartley MacAllister (Peake 3326; woodcut). 3. R.H. Croll (Peake 1228, listing the artist as 'Sime, SH'; linocut). Harry Muir has written in pencil..... More
Peake 3970. Frederick Millward Grey (1899-1957), English-born painter, etcher and art teacher, lived and worked in South Australia from 1923. Henry Darnley Naylor (1872-1945) was Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide. Offered together with a copy of Grey's bookplate for Norman C. Fisher (Peake 1719; halftone). Provenance: H.B...... More
Peake 465. Number 7 of 24 copies printed by hand from the original woodblock on untrimmed fine Japanese paper, signed and editioned in pencil by the artist in the bottom margin. A fine copy of the standard version (a photomechanical reproduction with a dry adhesive verso) is also present. Offered..... More
The three bookplates are for 1. Genevieve McLeod (Peake 3621; signed by the artist and dated 1924). 2. Phyllis Lynch (Peake 3313). 3. Frank E. Lane (Peake 3043). While Peake classifies these plates as woodcuts, he also notes that Litchfield routinely used scraperboard, which is the more likely medium here..... 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
The illustration on the front panel of the card ('Mountain Country - Australia') is signed in the image 'Sylvia B'. The bookplate is Peake 313 (not recording the artist or a date). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. More