Coast Scene near Rapid Bay, Sunset. Natives fishing with Nets
[London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847]. Plate 21 from 'South Australia Illustrated'; the lithographer is James William Giles. More
[London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847]. Plate 21 from 'South Australia Illustrated'; the lithographer is James William Giles. More
[London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847]. Plate 33 from 'South Australia Illustrated'; the lithographer is James William Giles. More
[London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847]. Plate 52 from 'South Australia Illustrated'; the lithographer is James William Giles. More
[London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847]. Plate 49 from 'South Australia Illustrated'; the lithographer is James William Giles. More
The plates are in uniformly fine condition. 1. An unattributed plate for W.H. Langham, president of the Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia, and bibliographer of The Hassell Press. Peake 3088. 2. A plate by C.H. Crampton for J.K. (Jack) Moir, literary..... More
The plates, in uniformly fine condition, are by: Blake Twigden for Pat Corrigan (Peake 1150); Marie-Claire Ralph for Glen Ralph's Wilmar Library (Peake 4416); Derek Riley for Edwin Jewell (Peake 2796); the same artist for 'Mildura' (perhaps a winery? - not in Peake); Peter Chapman for James Hardie Library (not..... More
The plates, all in fine condition, are for: (1) C.M.A. Brown (not in Peake); (2) E.L. Cook (Peake 1095); (3) Sydney Hagley (Peake 2288); (4) Ernest Samuel Marks (Peake 3463); (5) Enid Robertson (not in Peake); and C. Thomas (Peake 5163). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate..... More
The plates are for: (1) J.K. Moir, by C.H. Crampton (Peake 3757); (2) C.M.A. Brown (not in Peake); halftone reproductions of plates for (3) John L. Preece, by Henri van Raalte (Peake 4366); (4) Harold J. Howes, by Harold Byrne (2631); (5) Lorna Robin King, by William Hunter (Peake 2966);..... More
The plates are for Dr Frederick Lucas Benham; Adrian de Crespigny; W.E. Fuller (not in Peake); Joanna Elder Giles (not in Peake); George H. Harris; R.F. Irvine; Fred Johns; Paquita Mawson; Dr George Mackaness; N.H. Mitchell (not in Peake); William C. Quin; Catherine Stow; and Paul Stratmann. Provenance: H.B. (Harry)..... More
The plates are for Dr Frederick Lucas Benham; R.H. Croll; R.G. (two different designs); George H. Harris; R.F. Irvine; Fred Johns; Norman McDougall; Noel Pearson; William C. Quin; and Paul Stratmann (two different designs). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. [12 items]. More
The artist is 1894 Air Mechanic Sydney English, Aeroplane Repair Section, stationed at the time at the Australian Flying Corps Training Depot at Wendover, Buckinghamshire. He was a twenty-something iron founder from Northcote in Victoria when he enlisted on 27 April 1917; his artistic skills would appear to be innate..... More
Peake 237. Barbara Constance Barnett was the wife of noted authority on bookplates and Japanese woodblock prints, Percy Neville Barnett. This plate is featured on page 172 of his 'Woodcut Book-Plates' (Beacon Press, 1934). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. 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
Peake 5415 (dated 'c1924'). Some institutional collections list this bookplate under the name 'Mollie Gerald Walters'. Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. More
London, George Baxter, 1844. 'A scene connected with the Wesleyan Missionary Society and the Maories [sic]. Mr Waterhouse, general superintendent of that Society's Missions in Australia and Polynesia, is seen introducing to the natives Mr Creed (their new missionary) and his wife. The detail is wonderful and the colouring beautiful..... More
The posters (each 1010 × 380 mm) advertise this family of 'Instrumentalists, Vocalists & Comedians' and its supporting acts promising 'Character & Comedy, Scenas & Dances' - verily, a 'great success throughout the civilized world'. Printed by F.W. Niven Pty. Ltd., Printers, Lithographers, &c., Flinders Street, Melbourne, circa 1900 (one..... 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
Peake 3347. Offered together with a duplicate typescript checklist of Birmingham's bookplates (12, with eight of them dated, mainly from the late 1920s). Karna Marea Birmingham (1900-1987) 'studied under Julian Ashton. Due to failing eyesight little work was done after 1938' (Peake, page 13). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller..... More
London, William Blake [for John Linnell], 'Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825' [in fact 1826]. 'William Blake's "Illustrations of the Book of Job" primarily refers to a series of twenty-two engraved prints (published 1826) by Blake illustrating the biblical Book of Job. It also refers to two earlier..... More
The letter (octavo, on the letterhead of Trenance, Bonython's country house in the Bugle Ranges) reads in full: '25 March 1959. Dear Mr Muir, I believe you collect book plates. I send you mine. I meant to do so quite ten years ago. Yours truly, E.G. Bonython'. Eric Glenie Bonython..... More
This is one of a suite of drawings produced by Boxall to illustrate 'The Cities of Australia' by Katleen Ussher, published in London in June 1928; a photocopy of page 95 of the book, featuring this image as a head-piece, is attached to the rear of the mount. The book..... More
Peake 492. London-born Frederick Christian Britton (1889-1931) arrived in South Australia in 1910. He was an artist and arts educator, not least the first principal of the Adelaide School of Arts. Lucy Birks was a daughter-in-law of Charles Birks of the eponymous Adelaide department store (founded in 1876, it merged..... More
The plates are for Lucy Birks (Peake 492), George H. Harris (Peake 2378), and Norman McDougall (Peake 3560). External dimensions 132 × 106 mm, 108 × 61 mm, and 115 × 95 mm, respectively; the Birks plate has two light corner creases; the Harris plate has a few tiny marks;..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), numbered 17 in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet, and initialled in the image 'R.C.F.' (Rosa Catherine Fiveash). From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, [1880s]. An original large-format chromolithograph from John Ednie Brown's 'Forest Flora of South Australia' (1882-1890), initialled in the image 'R.C.F.' (Rosa Catherine Fiveash). From soon after publication Harcourt Barrett was confronted with a popular conception that Rosa Fiveash was wholly or principally responsible for the..... More