Sydney, Tyrrell's Galleries, 1930. The colophon, signed by Barnett, states that the book is 'Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers'. In fact, the original printing was unillustrated. In the Book Collectors' Society of Australia 2009 publication on Barnett, the bibliography by... More about The Bookplate in Australia. Its Inspiration and Development

Hawthorn, The Hawthorn Press, 1943. Number 24 of only 50 signed copies. Provenance: Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954), horticulturalist, naturalist, author and book-collector, with his George Perrottet-designed 1942 bookplate (signed in pencil by the artist). Loosely inserted, tipped in on separate sheets, are another two Hunter etched bookplates. The subjects are... More about The Bookplates of William Hunter, Etcher

London, Zwemmer Gallery, 1967. Number 176 of 300 copies numbered, dated (London, 1967) and signed by the artist. The technique of sfumato ('the use of carbon from a naked candle flame or from an oil lamp as an aid to painting') is discussed in the book in an article by Sheldon Williams (pages 11-14). More about Sfumato. Paintings and Drawings of David Boyd

Bondi Junction, ETT Imprint, 1998. Number 78 of only 100 copies signed by both the author and the artist, with an original signed etching (187 × 190 mm). It is hand-bound by Robyn Tait, who has signed and inscribed the verso of the title in pencil 'For Alec'. This book... More about Australia Suite. Drawings by Garry Shead

[Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. This copy is signed and dated (10 April 1970) by the artist under his frontispiece portrait; the handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s. He died in 1983 at the age of... More about James Cant

Adelaide, [The Artist], 1950. Number 84 of a 'Private Edition' (total number not stated), initialled and dated (20 November 1950) by the artist. More about South Australian Personalities. A Selected Gallery of Notable Citizens, Leaders in their...

Richmond, Richmond Hill Press and Collector Reproductions, 1979. Number 92 of 500 copies signed by the artist. 'Sir Russell Drysdale has created 45 original pen and wash drawings, line drawings and watercolours recollecting the people and places which have inspired his art through a lifetime'. More about Russell Drysdale

Frenchs Forest, The Craftsman's Press, 1984. Number 12 of 200 copies signed by the artist; loosely inserted is an original signed and numbered etching (paper size 330 × 255 mm; image size 200 × 165 mm). More about The Art of Brian Dunlop

Melbourne, Gryphon Books, 1979. Oversubscribed on publication and destined to be perennially rare, as the edition was limited to only 150 copies numbered and signed by Donald Friend; this is number 63. It is offered together with a copy of 'The Bumbooziana Portfolio, being some Notes by the Publisher, a.... More about Sundry Notes and Papers; being recently discovered Notes and Documents of the Natural &...

Sydney, The Shepherd Press, 1947. Number 679 of 2000 copies (200 copies of a deluxe edition were also published). More about Elioth Gruner. Twenty-four Reproductions in Colour from Original Oil Paintings. Foreword by...

Sydney, Art Academy, 1988. One of 200 copies numbered and signed by the artist, containing a numbered, signed and captioned linocut ('Sharyn's Shawl'). Loosely inserted is a catalogue for the 1982 retrospective exhibition of the artist's drawings and linocuts (octavo, 8 pages plus the colour pictorial wrappers - 70 items... More about Edward Heffernan. His Life and Art

South Melbourne, Richard Griffin, 1984 [first thus]. One of only 600 copies of the Collectors' Edition signed by Hodgkinson and issued with one of six different original etchings (each in a limited edition of 100 and also signed by the artist). In this copy the book is not numbered, but... More about Sepik Diary