Books & Bookplates

  • The book of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, 1906 - 1931

    # 13691

    ARMSTRONG, Edmund La Touche; BOYS, Robert Douglass

    The book of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, 1906 – 1931

    Melbourne : Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, 1932. Octavo, printed wrappers (light crease), bookplate from the Chapman collection inside front wrapper, pp.137, illustrations. John Shirlow’s copy, signed by him on front wrapper.

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  • Bookplate for Freda Johnson

    # 13188

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Bookplate for Freda Johnson

    Process block after a pen and ink drawing, 94 x 78 mm. Created 1937

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  • Bookplate for Joseph Coen

    # 13070

    COEN, Margaret

    Bookplate for Joseph Coen

    Ex libris bookplate reproducing a drawing by Margaret Coen for her cousin Joseph Coen. 

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  • Australiana from the library of Dame Mabel Brookes

    # 7063

    [HINCE, Kenneth]; BROOKES, Mabel Balcombe, 1890-1975.

    Australiana from the library of Dame Mabel Brookes

    … arranged for sale by Kenneth Hince. Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1968. Special issue on hand-made paper in deluxe binding. Large octavo, fine blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine, frontispiece portrait, pp [vi], 69, b/w plates, uncut, mostly unopened, a pristine copy.

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  • Bookplate for A. H. Conybeare

    # 10541

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Bookplate for A. H. Conybeare

    Process block after an etching, 113 x 90 mm. Created 1928.

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  • Bookplate for Mary C. Swan

    # 10540

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Bookplate for Mary C. Swan

    Process block after a pen and ink drawing, 140 x 95 mm. Created 1942

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  • Bookplate for R. Parkinson

    # 10537

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Bookplate for R. Parkinson

    Process block after a pen and ink drawing, 90 x 67 mm. Created c. 1898 – 1890. 

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  • Bookplate for Dora Jarret

    # 10535

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Bookplate for Dora Jarret

    Process block after a pen and ink drawing, 112 x 78 mm. 

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  • Bookplate for Evan Cameron

    # 10534

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Bookplate for Evan Cameron

    Process block after a pen and ink drawing, 134 x 90 mm. Circa 1930

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  • Bookplate for Shirley Court-Rice

    # 10532

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Bookplate for Shirley Court-Rice

    Process block after a pen and ink drawing, 110 x 70 mm. Mid-twentieth century.

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  • Bookplate for Bertha Ashton

    # 10527

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Bookplate for Bertha Ashton

    Process block from a pen and ink drawing, 125 x 72 mm, signed in the image, fine condition. Mid twentieth century.

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  • De luxe publications by P. Neville Barnett

    # 10395

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    De luxe publications by P. Neville Barnett

    [Sydney : the author, c. 1938]. Octavo, printed wrappers, unpaginated, tipped-in colour frontispiece, illustrated in black and white. Signed and inscribed by Barnett on the front free endpaper. An illustrated prospectus of Barnett's limited edition books on bookplates and Japanese woodcuts.

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  • Geofroy Tory and his device of the pot casse (Signed copy)

    # 7493

    FOXCRAFT, A.B.

    Geofroy Tory and his device of the pot casse (Signed copy)

    Melbourne : Printing Industry Crafstmen of Australia [printed by John Gartner], 1937. Edition limited to 250 copies. Ovtavo, card covers with vignette of Tory’s device to the front (foxed across lower front), front endpaper with full signatures of John Gartner and A.B. Foxcraft, title page with vignette of Tory’s device, 21 pp, two small marks …

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  • Imprimatur. No. 1. Melbourne, September 20, 1933.

    # 7174

    [GARTNER, John] Working Men's College, Melbourne.

    Imprimatur. No. 1. Melbourne, September 20, 1933.

    Melbourne : Working Men's College, 1933. 'This is the only issue of “Imprimatur” that will appear and 500 copies were printed on the 20th September, 1933, at the Working Men's College, Latrobe Street, Melbourne, Australia'. Single folio sheet folded into 4 pp, horizontal fold line but a good copy of a very scarce printing publication. THP …

    $220.00 AUD Read more
  • [HAWTHORN PRESS] The world’s greatest invention : printing

    # 7004

    McMURTRIE, Douglas C.

    [HAWTHORN PRESS] The world’s greatest invention : printing

    Melbourne : Printing Industry Craftsmen [Secretary-Treasuer, John Gartner], 1940. Edition of 300 copies printed for members of the Victorian Division of P.I.C.A. Octavo, textured card wrappers with printed title to front (spine sunned), 13 pp, contents fine.

    $45.00 AUD Read more
  • The golden age of Australian fantasy. Children’s book illustrations : 1910 - 1950

    # 13125

    HOLDEN, Robert

    The golden age of Australian fantasy. Children’s book illustrations : 1910 – 1950

    Melbourne : Museum of Victoria, 1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 12, with numerous illustrations after Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

    $30.00 AUD Read more