Armorial book-plates (presentation copy)

Their romantic origin and artistic development. Sydney: privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1932. Octavo, patterned cloth, 172 pp., illustrated throughout with bookplates, including tipped-in original bookplates. A worldwide survey of armorial bookplates including a chapter on Australian armorials. Limited to 300 copies signed by the author, this is number 246. Standard edition.

This copy with the pictorial bookplate of P. Neville Barnett to front pastedown, and a presentation inscription from Barnett to the front endpaper, with a bookplate of The Women’s Club, Beaumont House, with a presentation inscription from Mrs. Harley Matthews.