Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)

Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. Quarto (365 mm tall), gilt-decorated blue cloth in matching slipcase, pp 148, portrait frontispiece, signed bookplate by Andrew Sibley, essay, tipped-in photographs, forty tipped-in facsimile bookplates commissioned from Australian artists by Pat Corrigan. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author, collector and publisher; printed letterpress, with a 90 minute interview with Corrigan in DVD format included. The standard edition.

A lifelong collector of fine art and rare books, Pat Corrigan has commissioned Australian artists to design personal bookplates for his family since the 1970s. The stories of Corrigan’s relationships with known names such as Brett Whiteley, Lloyd Rees, Irena Sibley, John Coburn and Euan Macleod are fleshed out in the essay and recorded interview. For the first time this remarkable collection of 40 original designs, coupled with a personal biography and scholarly essay on bookplate theory, is presented as an exquisite folio book handcrafted in the finest traditions of Private Press. A limited edition published by Douglas Stewart Fine Books, a contemporary representation of Australian Bookplates.