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25.01.2022 Bookplate, possibly in scraperboard, for Col. R W SAVAGE, c. 1930s, who was associated with the foundation in Sydney in 1935 of the RIVER CANOE CLUB, which still operates today after 85 years. Found in a copy of Dr Ralph Hopton & Anne Balliol, 'Better bed manners' (London: Duckworth, 1937). One of my earlier bookplate-in-book finds, from 30 Mar. 1986. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #bookplates #exlibris #TNABS #rivercanoeclub

24.01.2022 A record of our railway history, from 1902 and then from 1958, in which the NSW Railways Institute was a key provider of education and training to railway workers, whilst their libraries were open to the community. The 1902 example shows the old Railways Institute head office in Devonshire Street Sydney, near Central Station. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #bookplates #exlibris #railwaybookplates

23.01.2022 Here is bookplate by Rhyll Plant whose bookplates and other wood engravings are showing on weekends in May at the Newstead Arts Hub as part of the ‘Art Most Fowl’ exhibition. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #TNABS #exlibris #Bookplates #birdbookplates

19.01.2022 Very glad to say that I have just sent out by post and email the latest number of the Society's Newsletter, no. 59 with cover date of December 2020. Features on Dr George Lane Mullins (younger brother of John who founded the bookplate movement in Australia over a century ago) and the Designer profile: Dianne Longley, among others. Wishing all 'Compliments of the season' and a better 2021! #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #TNABS #bookplates #exlibris #medicalbookplates

18.01.2022 A lovely bright little bookplate for the Meandarra Queensland CWA library. Found in 'A voice in the dark', by C Lorrimer (London: Souvenir Press, 1967). I don't know where this town is, is there still a QCWA Branch there? #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #exlibris #bookplates #TNABS

16.01.2022 Just in the process of posting out Newsletter no. 58, with articles on the conservation of the bookplate albums which once belonged to EIRENE MORT; the bookplate collections of the Gutenberg-Museum Mainz; Collecting bookplates in books; the Adrian Feint bookplate for THELMA CLUNE; Bibliography of bookplate literature 2019; the late Rie Fletcher (1926-2020). #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #eirenemort #TNABS #exlibris #bookplates #germanbookplates

16.01.2022 This bookplate for the CHAUCER LIBRARY was found in 'Plays by August Strindberg' (London: Duckworth & Co., 1927), picked up last week in Yackandandah, Vic. The Chaucer Library was founded in late 1917 by two women active in Melbourne's Methodist Mission movement, Sr Faith (Miss Evangeline Ireland) and Sr Eva (Miss Elizabeth E Hurst). Except for a period in the 1920, it was associated with the Methodist Book Room in various Collins Street addresses. The owners were very active... in what were referred to as 'women's activities' including the National Home Reading Union and the Housewives' Association, and the Chaucer Library became the centre of many of these activities as well as a venue for craft exhibitions. Miss Ireland died in 1926 and Miss Hurst in 1947. The Chaucer Library was acquired by Mullens' Library in 1952. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #TNABS #Bookplates #exlibris #librarybookplates See more

15.01.2022 Pen and ink bookplate from 1914 in Pre-Raphaelite or Arts and Crafts style by Melbourne artist and illustrator WALTER SEED for art publisher EDWARD A VIDLER. In a copy of Winston Churchill, 'The inside of the cup' (London: Macmillan, 1913) thanks to Rhyll Plant for the gift. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #TNABS #bookplates #exlibris

14.01.2022 Two bookplates for C E HARRIS, possibly a Melbourne resident. The first in pen-and-ink by an unknown artist and depicting the cornucopia of books and reading, was in a copy of Leigh Hunt, 'Essays and sketches' (Oxford Uninversity Press, 1928). The second is a two-colour linocut executed by GEORGE D PERROTTET in 1934, and resides in a copy of Thomas Wood's 'Cobbers' published in London by OUP in 1934. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #TNABS #exlibris #bookplates #linocut

12.01.2022 Stylish 1930s bookplate for the Wedgwood Library, 310 Bong Bong Street, Bowral. Found a number of years ago in Ernest Wells, 'Dirk Spaander' published by Angus & Robertson in 1936. Bring back the Southern Highlands Booktown! #bookplates #newaustralianbookplatesociety #exlibris #TNABS

11.01.2022 One of those lucky finds! Occasionally I order books, sight unseen, from Australian secondhand booksellers because the description mentions the presence of a bookplate. A lottery, I know! Found in 'Cedar, seals and whaling ships' by John Nicholson (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2007) from Bookhome Australian Internet Bookshop, is the bookplate for Dr Kerry White, one of our foremost chroniclers of Australian children's books. It is by beloved children's author and illustrator, Bob G...raham, who has, with a few well-placed lines, depicted a child and flea-ridden canine companion poring (or maybe 'pawing') over an illustrated book. Dr White gave most of her children's book collection to the NLA (look up 'kerry white adds to childrens book holdings') but a few, like this one, seem to have escaped onto the market. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #TNABS #Bookplates #exlibris #dogbookplates #childrensbookillustration See more

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09.01.2022 Bookplate by English artist and designer ROBERT ANNING BELL (1863-1933), 1904, for the Victoria League. This organisation was formed in 1901 after the death of Queen Victoria in order to promote contact, understanding and fellowship between citizens of the various countries of the then British Empire. Branches were formed in Australia and other countries not long after. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #bookplates #TNABS #exlibris

07.01.2022 St Kilda Public Library is holding an exhibition of the Polish ex libris (bookplates) of MIRKA MORA in association with the New Australian Bookplate Society. On now till the end of May at the Library, 150 Carlisle Street, St Kilda. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #TNABS #Bookplates #exlibris #mirkamora

07.01.2022 Newsletter no. 60, dated March 2021, has now been published. This issue features 'Bookplates in Poland', a report on the course 'Linocut Bookplates from Design to Edition', Soviet era miniature bookplates and the bookplate of George Edward Farnhill. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #TNABS #Bookplates #exlibris

05.01.2022 There are many bookplate designers and collectors in China

01.01.2022 Striking, new digital design from the Society’s Social Media Secretary, Jess Le. That’s a great bookplate, Jess!

01.01.2022 Found this lovely dog-themed bookplate for NELL ELKINGTON at the Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury Chatswood book fair yesterday. It was, appropriately, in a copy of Rudyard Kipling's 'Collected dog stories' published in 1935 by Macmillan & Co. Now looking for information on Nell Elkington. #bookplates #newaustralianbookplatesociety #NABS #dogbookplates #exlibris

01.01.2022 Pen-and-ink bookplate by B E PIKE, c. 1940s, for DELPHINE DUN (nee BEACH), in a copy of Will Lawson's 'Black diamonds' (Consolidated Press, 1945) inscribed to Delphine Beach by the author. Delphine was involved with the Sydney Literary Society in the 1930s and after her marriage in 1946 moved with her husband to 'Ben Eden', Grenfell, NSW. #NewAustralianBookplateSociety #TNABS #exlibris #bookplates #womensbookplates

01.01.2022 Bookplate, probably from the 1920s-1930s, for the ADELAIDE CIRCULATING LIBRARY, which operated from 1884 to 1975. It replaced the subscription library service of the previous South Australian Institute, when the SA Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery were also created. The Library with its walls of books remains as an elegant and atmospheric functions room.