THE NEW AUSTRALIAN BOOKPLATE SOCIETY collectors, bibliophiles, artists and others dedicated to promoting bookplates Newsletter No. 30, September 2013 Editor/President The Society’s sixth Annual General Meeting Dr Mark Ferson 4 Sofala Ave Riverview NSW 2066 This year the Society’s Annual General Meeting engraving. John discussed a number of his 02 9428 2863 was held on the evening of 29 May in the older armorial and pictorial designs as well as
[email protected] Conference Room of the iconic Dymocks contemporary ones, including bookplates for Secretary Building in Sydney’s central business district, in members of the Waterhouse horse-racing family Bronwyn Vost honour of our guest speaker, John W Thompson, and a design for Sydney polymath and ABC 59 Gladstone St, who occupies a suite in the building – and radio host Adam Spencer. After John fielded Enmore NSW 2042 whose good offices had led to the Society being many questions from spell-bound members, it
[email protected] able to use the venue. John is Sydney’s only was reluctantly decided that we needed to move hand engraver and specialises in the engraving onto the business of the meeting. Our speaker of jewellery and presentation items but also was thanked heartily for his fascinating talk and strays into other uses including the decoration presented with a small gift. of antique firearms and, of relevance to our The President gave his report for 2012, in Society, the execution of copper engravings which he highlighted the ongoing work on for the production of bookplates. John spoke attempting to keep the Soicety’s website up to prior to the conduct of official Society business, date, the continuing success of the Newsletter relating how he first became involved in art and the publication of the Directory of members ‘back home’ in England and undertook an 2011.