THE NEW AUSTRALIAN BOOKPLATE SOCIETY collectors, bibliophiles, artists and others dedicated to promoting bookplates Newsletter No. 40, March 2016

Editor/President Between the Wars: Friendships and bookplates Dr Mark Ferson 4 Sofala Ave By Mark Ferson Riverview NSW 2066 02 9428 2863 In Australia between the Wars, owning a Norman Lindsay produced bookplates from [email protected] bookplate became almost a fashion accessory 1897 well into the 1960s. In the early 1940s, Secretary for the educated. For many artists, executing he made frequent use of Swains Lending Bronwyn Vost a bookplate on commission, was an important Library, Pitt Street, Sydney to borrow crime [email protected] source of income. However, bookplates were and other novels which he would read at Designer often made as gifts to acknowledge support, and home in Springwood. He thus made the Mary Keep in many cases purely as gestures of friendship. acquaintance of the librarians, whose job was PO Box 555 Although toward the end of his life Lionel to keep track of loans and to issue books which Dulwich Hill NSW 2203 Lindsay charged 50gns per bookplate on those he had not previously read. Lindsay referred [email protected] few occasions when he accepted commissions, to the librarians as the ‘Swains Library Girls’ Robert Littlewood in his Sir Ex and on a number of occasions invited them, libris records that the majority of his designs unsuccessfully, to Springwood. He gave each were gifts. Perhaps the best documented of of the three librarians working there at the his tokens of friendship are two for Robert time, Mary Swan (1942), Beth Fowles (1943) Menzies produced in 1940 and 1942, the one and Shirley Court-Rice (1943) a present of depicting the owner as a small boy sitting beside a bookplate based on pen-and-ink drawings a stream fishing, and the second, richly bound invariably depicting a young woman and man books, the barrister’s wig, official despatch box, and a book. wine decanter and the 1939 declaration of war, reflective of his period as Australian prime minister. Art historian and Lindsay family expert Joanna Mendelssohn refers to the ‘inner circle of Menzies’ friends’ which apart from Lindsay comprised Sir Frederick Jordan and Sir James McGregor, each of whom also received in 1940 gifts from Lindsay in the form of tasteful and dignified wood engraved bookplates. His last bookplate was a wood engraving executed in 1958 for devoted Lindsayana collector Keith Wingrove:

I am sending you the Bookplate and half a dozen prints. Its a present and the last cut I shall ever make as my eyes trouble me, pains CONTENTS in the eye balls that new glasses have not Between the Wars: Friendships cured… I did the wood cut in odd half hours and bookplates 1 when it wasn’t too hot. Sidorov bookplate in a 1930 “Russian” printers’ manual 3 It is evident from the trials which Lindsay suffered to make the bookplate that this was Pen and ink design by Norman Lindsay My Bookplate 4 truly a gift of friendship. for Mary Swan, 1942 Australian bookplate bibliography, 2014 and 2015 5 Recent publications 6 www.bookplatesociety.org.au/

ISSN 1833-766X ISSN Editorial 6 coming here on Sunday, and we wondered whether you would care to come along that evening. We are also hoping Camden will come … By the way, Muir is an admirer of your work …

Perrottet’s letters to Auckland artist Hilda Wiseman record their shared interest in the linocut technique and bookplates in particular over a period of almost 40 years. In 1933 they made an agreement to design a bookplate for one another, the first fruit being Perrottet’s Above: Herbert Gallop, wood engraving for Myles Dunphy, 1924 linocut for Wiseman. On receiving her design Below right: , wood engraving for Dr Douglas Miller, 1933 for him in 1934, Perrottet expressed his appreciation with:

In 1914 a number of young men member of the Australian Ex Libris I think you have done me proud! and the with interest in exploring and preserving Society from 1933 and moved to Hobart more I look at the plate the more I like it … the native forests, in 1934 or 1935 to become private Please accept my warmest thanks for the more including Myles Dunphy and Herbert secretary to Tasmanian governor Sir than adequate way you have carried out your Gallop, formed the Mountains Trails Ernest Clark. Her bookplates include share of the contract. Club. Artists L. Roy Davies and Alan a heraldic design by P. Roach Pierson Rigby joined in the subsequent decade (1936) ‘a friend of mine, who was in the Perrottet also designed bookplates for and other groups such as the Sydney Royal Air Force, and badly injured during printmaker Ethleen Palmer (1934), Japanese Bushwalkers and River Canoe Club the war. A severe operation about 2 years artist Shoji Kozuka (1935) and Helen Ogilvie were also formed to help preserve the ago made a new man of him. He lives in (1936), and in return received plates from natural habitat around Sydney. This close Victoria now ...’ On moving to Tasmania Kozuka and Ogilvie (the latter in fact designed knit circle, with common interests in she befriended surgeon, collector (and for his wife Muriel). Of course, these examples the ‘bush’ and in many cases in art former Australian Ex Libris Society are only from the mid-twentienth century – and architecture, have left a number of member, 1929-1932) W.E.L. Crowther designing or exchanging bookplates between bookplates which reflect their friendships: and corresponded with him concerning friends continues, and many modern examples H.R. Gallop for Myles J. Dunphy the successful designs of her friend Roach exist, perhaps a subject for a future essay. showing a campfire, pitched tent and Pierson, including his prize-winning References are available from the author. towering sandstone cliffs; L. Roy Davies design for Lord Huntingfield. Sir Ernest for M[iles] J. D[unphy] depicting a bush Clark commissioned a design from Roach scene with tent; two designs by L. Roy Pierson in 1936, and Crowther obtained Davies for himself depicting camping two, dated 1939 and 1940. It is probable scenes; bookplate for R.W. Savage, of the that McLennan promoted the bookplates Sydney Canoe Club, depicting a canoe of her friend, resulting in a number on a stream flowing through a sandstone of commissions from members of her canyon. Tasmanian circle. Among his 221 designs, a number Perhaps the relationships, often of Adrian Feint’s bookplates were gifts. international, between artists who shared One is the wood engraving for surgeon an interest in bookplates give the best Douglas Miller (1933), a modernistic examples of bookplates as tokens of design full of movement ably depicting friendship. Sometime in 1932 George a galleon being tossed about on rough D Perrottet designed a bookplate for seas. Douglas Miller had met Feint Ella Dwyer, and in the following May through their mutual friend Lane Mullins invited her to a Sunday dinner with and became his medical adviser. The fellow enthusiasts Muir and Morrisby: bookplate was a gift from Feint and symbolises the economically tough period Have you met H.B. Muir of Adelaide that Miller was going through as a result – he is here on holidays – he runs of the depression. the bookplate section of “Manuscripts”, Joan McLennan was a Victorian and is a very pleasant chap. He is

2 Sidorov bookplate in a 1930 machinery. This would be transmitted in file, for example, a whole book - published “Russian” printers’ manual the form of manuals which, for the printing in the form of a miniature book - of By Jürgen Wegner, Sydney and related industries, would have been the miniature bookplates called Экслибрис printing, paper and type manufacturing СССР (1975) (Russ., Soviet bookplates) as I was yet again trying to find something sectors. Most countries produced some well as the larger (104 mm) but beautifully on the shelves (which I seem to be doing of their own manuals and handbooks as produced Книжная Москва в экслибрисе moreso these days) when the post and the indeed did Australia. But a few countries (1985) (Russ., Moscow books and bookplates). NABS Newsletter interrupted me. So after stand out in the quality and extent of But something I had never given a second a cuppa and a quick perusal, I spotted and their printers’ manuals, one of which is thought to was the rather over-elaborate pulled off the shelves an odd but unusually Germany. Thorough, systematic and bent bookplate attached to the front board of Russ’ interesting old book. It’s a Russian printers’ on excellence, it is not surprising that the book. As a policy, I never remove bookplates manual from 1930 in the sense that it was Soviets decided to translate and republish a from any books. By their removal you can published in the Soviet Union but is a standard German work of the time. There destroy significant historical information translation of a standard German text of was also a great deal of commerce between about both the book and its bookplate. This the time: the two countries including intellectual one is printed in black on salmon paper commerce. and comprises a number of motifs within Russ, Rudolf. Основы современнй The original, Rudolf Russ’ Handbuch a lozenge shaped octagonal frame. Central репродукционой техики : der modernen Reproduktionstechnik (Ger., is an open book entwined in a ribbon on цинкография, ракелъая лубокая Handbook of modern reprography), is a an heraldic shield. The text on the pages печатъ, методы травления печатных multivolume work which was published of this book is for me indecipherable even форм для фотолитографии и офсета between 1923 (vol. 1) and 1940 (vol. 1, with a backlit magnifying device. Above, / Р. Русс ; перевод с немецкого, Л.А. 5th ed.). According to the catalogue of another heraldic device (‘stylized head on Тумермана. Москва : Гос-ное изд-во, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the set shoulders’ - I’m afraid heraldry isn’t a 1930. vii, 359 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., comprises five volumes, some of which were strong point) with ornate bunches of leaves ports., I ; 24 cm. published in as many as five editions (the cascading down either side. Then, at the first volume). After the war it was superseded top, the torso of a naked woman with I had completely forgotten that this title is by the Handbuch der Reproducktionstechnik. her uplifted hands in chains. Between the archived here - and not even in the German The book is in Russian but reproduces two, outspread wings. So perhaps a phœnix original. Printers’ manuals are an interest of over one hundred illustrations of various chained? Perhaps iconography succeeded mine. This may seem to be an odd interest kinds of machinery, equipment and where words failed? even for someone passionate about printing installations of the time. There are a few half history - especially foreign language ones. tones but most of the illustrations are from For me printing history is also about the line blocks. In addition, a couple of plates connections and interconnections provided as specimens of printing as well as an index. by the international language which is One of the things that I value in Soviet printing. From its very beginning, printing books is that they as a rule provide a wealth was an international undertaking. It has of production details including, in this been especially so in the twentieth century case, the size of the edition: 3,000 copies. which is perhaps the greatest of all centuries Not a huge amount when you consider as far as books and printing goes - by the population of the Soviet Union. And way of books but also for technological how many would have survived the wear innovation. Much of this technology and and tear, the turbulent history of the Soviet know-how originated in Germany, as it Union since (and more recently of Russia) does to this day. And I have always been including the Second World War? The interested in how printing travelled. How spine even gives us its price which was four you could venture to the remotest parts of roubles. Australia, to South America, to the far flung The Soviet Union was one of the world’s reaches of Empire, and find there someone great producers of bookplates both practical doing pretty much what you were doing and as an artistic form. Bookplates were back home. And probably on a Heidelberg important for people in the Soviet Union [printing press] as well. perhaps not least because it was something Bookplate by Aleksei Sidorov for ‘Bibliotheca Sidorowiana’ To be able to print you need to have access creative you could easily do and without to knowledge of processes, materials and putting words into print. I have here on

3 latest work by him was published in 1985. me, the collection and the plate in Western I not only feel it a great privilege having Australia. There are in the background a book from Sidorov’s library here - and many ‘dot’ spirals giving an illusion of that this now resides in Australia - but Dreamtime. There is a space on the bottom that the book itself is identified with his right to place my own signature. The own personal bookplate. And that the artwork is signed in the plate ‘KMK 2015’. bookplate is by Sidorov himself. But, more Before training in Librarianship I took importantly, that this is a book which a double major in Botany and Zoology, would have been of quite personal interest completing honours in Botany (Genetics) to Sidorov as practitioner and graphic artist. in 1972. Note: information about Sidorov is taken from Keira presented me with the A4 size, hand a translation of information from The Great coloured, finished art work. My local Snap Soviet encyclopedia (1979) at printer reduced the artwork for printing The free dictionary: http:// 1 at /6th the size, with colour, as designed. encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/ The plates are ungummed as I intend to Sidorov,+Aleksei+Alekseevich use a gumstick to apply a spot amount of glue before placing a plate in each of my personally signed books, (approx. 50 items), My Bookplate from my 35 years presenting a half-hour, By Grant Stone, Perth weekly radio-review show of science fiction, Dust jacket for A A Sidorov, fantasy, teen literature and graphic novels Old Russian book engraving I first encountered bookplates in the early called ‘The Faster Than Light Radio Show’. 1980’s when Harry Chaplin paid Murdoch I stopped making FTLRS in 2012 when I The whole is above a long ribbon bearing University Library a visit. Murdoch’s suffered a second stroke. I am now recovered the text - fortunately in Latin - of Librarian at the time was a bibliophile, and look forward to further adventures with ‘Bibliotheca Sidorowiana’. The bookplate George Buick, who met and entertained bookplates and books. is also signed ‘A S’. Aleksei Alekseevich Harry. Harry left us with some of his The commission for the plate (minus the Sidorov was a most important Soviet book bookplates in exchange for those we were cost of meeting over coffee) was $200 and historian. A great number of his books using to mark ownership or ‘special gift’. As the printing cost on light card (110grm), for were published as well as articles. These my job at the time was Special Collections 100 plates, was $30. included general works on book history Librarian the plates fell to me to organise. such as Books and culture (1979), but I was really taken by Harry’s plates: in his area of specialization was illustration particular those drawn for him by Norman especially book illustration, eg Old Russian Lindsay. book engraving (1951). Sidorov was born After 35 years at Murdoch I was retired in the Ukraine in 1891. He studied at and gained a job for three and a half Moscow University from 1909 to 1913, years unpacking and organising a specialist, subsequently teaching at the Moscow State private, rare books Geological Library, University, 1916 to 1931, and then again which included incunabula. It was while from 1942 to 1950. Sidorov also taught at I worked in this space and handled such the Moscow Printing Institute from 1938 treasures I really began to understand the to 1964. ‘Sidorov’s works, encompassing importance of bookplates as a marker of many topics in the field of culture and art, significance and a record of provenance. deal mainly with drawing, book illustration, Since my ‘real’ retirement, two years ago, and book science.’ He is also described as I’ve researched bookplates, and last year I a ‘Soviet art historian, specialist in book commissioned my own. science, and bibliophile.’ During his lifetime My artist friend of many years, Keira he received many honours including the McKenzie, was happy to take on the prestigious Order of Lenin. He died in design. The finished plate sees two Celtic Moscow in 1978. dragons, holding a scroll that states ‘Ex I have nine books by Sidorov here Libris Grant Lewis Stone’. The dragon tails including ones dating as far back as 1924 intertwine to grasp the West Australian Wood engraved bookplate by and 1930. But he researched, wrote and floral emblem, Anigozanthus manglesii (the Lionel Lindsay for Harry Chaplin, published throughout his long life - my Red and Green Kangaroo Paw). This locates 1954

4 Notes on some nineteenth century doctors 9 Robert C Littlewood. Ten bookplates by who had connections with both Australia and Allan Jordan. Stoke-on-Trent: Lytlewode China, including George Ernest (Chinese) Press, 2014. De Luxe edition of 25 copies, Morrison,whose bookplate is reproduced Standard edition of 125 copies. Although produced in the UK, essentially 5 Mark Ferson. Bookplate societies an Australian publication; comprises an in Australia. BookFare 9 (ANZAAB), introductory essay, checklist and prints of the 12 3 Mar. 2014, on-line only, available at http://www.anzaab.com/newsletters.cfm bookplates, reproduced mostly from the original blocks. Brief chronological survey of the various Australian societies, illustrated with bookplates 10 [Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria by Nilavan Adams, Mark Ferson, Tim Winters, Inc.]. The history page. Useful knowledge, Caren Florance and Kathryn Lovejoy. This no. 35, Spring 2014, p. 33 article was taken up by the International League Shows bookplates of the Manly Literary Institute of Antiquarian Booksellers, and published (Sydney) from c. 1940 on the ILAB blog on 18 March 2014 at http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation 11 James Scarlett. Association volumes: /1317-bibliophile_societies_worldwide_1 opening up of pathways. Biblionews and _-_bookplate_societies_in_australia.html Australian Notes & Queries, no. 381, Mar. 2014, pp. 13-28 6 Elle Freak. ‘The modern medium: Image of the author’s bookplate by his late niece colour linocuts’, in, Tracey Lock-Weir, Marian Scarlett Bookplate by Keira McKenzie for : unseen forces. Adelaide: Art Grant Stone, 2015 Gallery of South Australia, 2014; p. 144 12 [Jürgen Wegner]. 79.4. Two Gutenberg Shows two previously unrecorded linocut bookplates. Book ark, no. 79, Oct. 2014 monochrome bookplates by the artist, for Jessie Australian bookplate Reflects on books, marked by a bookplate, once bibliography, 2014 and 2015 H Black, and N H Shaw, c. 1926 belonging to German printer Sebastian Wolf, closely linked to Eltville a town with a long Mark J Ferson, Sydney 7 [Erica Hockley]. December 2013 Show printing history and important association with & Tell meeting in Sydney. Erica Hockley Gutenberg; also John Gartner’s bookplate by 2014 on Edgar Ederheimer. Biblionews and Allan Jordan celebrating Gutenberg’s life. Australian Notes & Queries, no. 382-383, 1 Frank Carleton. An eccelsiastical Latin manuscript bifolium found in St Jun.-Sep. 2014; pp. 91-4. Mary’s Cathedral crypt. Biblionews and Reproduction of three presumably German 2015 Australian Notes & Queries, no. 381, Mar. bookplates, two for Edgar Ederheimer; also 1 Frances Atkinson. Under the covers: mentioned by Brian Taylor in his ‘By their 2014, pp. 29-35 bookplates offer a window into ‘untold books ye may [get to] know them (1): Edgar John Bede Polding’s armorial bookplate as histories’. Age (), 28 Nov. 15 Bishop of Hiero-Caesarea and Vicar Apostolic Ederheimer’, in Biblionews no. 355-356, Sep.- [www.theage.com.au/entertainment/ of New Holland Dec. 2007, pp. 128-141 under-the-covers-bookplates-offer- 2 Don Doherty. Henry Lawson My army 8 Robert C Littlewood. Book-plates a-window-into-untold-histories- association collection. Biblionews and for Pat Corrigan & family. Melbourne: 20151128-gl8qti.html] Australian Notes & Queries, no. 382-383, Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. De Refers to the Australian Bookplate Design Award Jun.-Sep. 2014; pp. 61-78. Luxe edition of 15 copies with original 2015 conducted by the Keith Wingrove Trust Shows two bookplates by Lionel Lindsay for signed bookplates, and Standard edition of 200 copies; all include a DVD Harry Chaplin 2 Richard Blair. An investigation into containing a video interview with Pat Brian Morrissey’s notebook: the 70 3 Peter Doyle. Pulp confidential: quick Corrigan. & dirty publishing from the 40s & 50s. year reading list of Marion Helena Describes Corrigan’s life and influences, his Biblionews and Australian Sydney: State Library of NSW, 2014; p. Stephenson. motivation for collecting bookplates and gives Notes & Queries [iv] , no. 388, Dec. 2015; pp. brief biographical information on the artists 163-73 The booklet accompanying the exhibition of Corrigan commissioned. Designs by Earle Reproduces the bookplate by Henry J Ford for the same name has as a frontispiece a detail Backen, W Rubery Bennett, Peter Chapman, Morton & Helena Stephenson, c. 1920 from a larger watercolour and ink work referred John Coburn, L Roy Davies, Brian Dunlop, Joel to as ‘Bookplate caricature of Frank Johnson’, Elenberg, Allan Gamble, Bruce Goold, Peter 3 Andrea Curr. The Book Nook Library: c. 1945, painted by Lock, the pseudonym of Hickey, Robert Jacks, Peter Kingston, Alun a family affair. Biblionews and Australian N M Sherlock. Leach-Jones, Euan Macleod, Pixie O’Harris, Notes & Queries, no. 387, Sep. 2015, pp. David van Nunen, David Preston, Lloyd Rees, 4 Stephen Due. All the tea in China! 121-7 Medical History Newsletter (ANZSHM), Andrew Sibley, Irena Sibley, Blake Twigden, Shows the bookplate for the Book Nook Library, no. 44, Feb. 2014, p. 4 Brett Whiteley and James Willebrant. Liverpool

5 4 Dorothy Erickson. Mattie Furphy – 10 [Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria Editorial dainty but determined. Australiana, vol. Inc.]. Ex-libris – from the shelves of a 38, no. 1, Feb. 2016, pp. 9-13 Mechanics’ library. Useful knowledge, no. Although many relationships are long Reproduces bookplate by F Vanzetti for the West 38, Spring 2015, pp. 31-3 distance ones, bookplates are frequently Australian Society of Arts, c. 1904 Shows two versions of bookplates for the Echuca Mechanics Institute Library in situ in six books incontrovertible evidence of friendships 5 Mark Ferson. Beautful handmade still extant from the Library. One was from as artists design bookplates for friends bookplates, Ascham School, Sydney. 1877, printed by R G Foyster of Echuca, and and colleagues. I have opened this issue Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries, the other from c. 1886, printed by Mackay and of the Newsletter with an essay which no. 388, Dec. 2015; pp. 154-7 Foyster, Echuca. highlights some of the friendships, artistic Shows four hand-painted prize plates dating from and otherwise, demonstrated by a variety 1916-20, including one by Madeline E King 11 Dylan Rainforth. Geoffrey Ricardo’s kangaroo etching wins Australian of bookplates from the period between 6 [Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria Bookplate the Wars. This theme could be repeated Inc.]. MIV news – Record scanning for Design Award. Age, 8 Dec. 15 [www.theage. with ease based on modern bookplates and you. Useful knowledge, no. 36, Summer- com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/geoffrey- modern friendships, and in fact the Society Autumn 2015, p. 12 ricardos-kangaroo-etching-wins-australian- itself has led to a series of friendships from Shows bookplate for the Miners Rest and bookplate-design-award-20151208-gli6qy.html] which I hope all members reap a benefit! Dowling Forest Mechanics’ Institute and Free Refers to the Australian Bookplate Design But enough of the advertising … I wish Library. Award 2015 conducted by the Keith Wingrove to express my gratitude to Jürgen Wegner Trust 7 [Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria for contributing another fascinating article, Inc.]. Launceston’s conservation & 12 Charles Stitz. The continuing this time based around an unusual Russian innovation. Useful knowledge, no. 36, adventures of Australian book collectors. bookplate found in a volume in his own Summer-Autumn 2015, p. 15 Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries, library of printing manuals; and to member No bookplates shown but the article draws no. 385, Mar. 2015, pp. 3-11 Grant Stone who has given the story of his attention to the remarkable survival of some Show bookplates for W P Hurst and Bruce L bookplate very recently commissioned from 20,000 titles from the former Launceston Evans friend and artist Keira McKenzie, as well as Mechanics’ Institute library, now held at tantalising glimpses of his career in books, the University of Tasmania. Of particular of which I hope to hear more one day. interest is the blog pointing to a site with Recent publications images of nineteenth century bookplates Time passes so quickly, and I realised while found in the collection, at https://www.flickr. planning this issue that I had missed the com/photos/launcestonmechanicsinstitute/ Tim Bonyhady. Good living street: the annual compilation of articles of bookplate sets/72157644908732268 fortunes of my Viennese family. Allen & interest published in Australia in 2014, and Unwin, Sydney, 2011; p. 73 so this issue features bibliographies for 2014 8 [Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria Shows the book stamp designed by Fritzi Löw, and 2015. Incidentally, in the near future I Inc.]. Beauty find from the Children’s Wiener Werkstätte, for Moriz and Hermine will update the online version which can be Library. (The history page). Useful Gallia, 1918 (Thanks to Jürgen Wegner for found at http://www.bookplatesociety.org. knowledge, no. 36, Summer-Autumn bringing this to my attention) 2015, pp. 31-2 au/bibliography-update Dorothy Erickson. Mattie Furphy – Notes and shows the find in an early edition Mary Keep and I are hoping to prepare dainty but determined. Australiana, vol. 38, of Black Beauty (London: Collins, c. 1920s) an index to Newsletter numbers 21-40, no. 1, Dec. 2015, pp. 9-13 of a bookplate for the Children’s Free Lending which will probably form a supplement Reproduces bookplate by F Vanzetti for the Branch, Free Library and Mechanics’ Institute to the Newsletter later in the year, and be of City of South Melbourne. Founded in 1923, West Australian Society of Arts, c. 1904 one of our contributions to the Society’s this was one of the earliest Australian libraries Jürgen Wegner. An Edwards & Shaw/ 10th anniversary celebrations. Again, if any dedicated to children. Fred Williams bookplate (NGV). The member has ideas about how we might 9 [Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria Shadowland Newsletter, no. 59, Jan. 2016 celebrate, please do get in touch with Inc.]. Ex-libris - from the shelves of a Gives evidence that Edwards and Shaw printed Secretary Bronwyn Vost or myself at the Mechanics’ library. Useful knowledge, no. the Fred Williams bookplate; an artist’s draft is contacts shown on the front of this issue. 37, Winter 2015, p. 33 shown at https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/ MF Shows bookplates for the Mechanics-Mercantile collection/work/79609/ catalogued as ‘Sleeping Library, San Francisco woman: Design for NGV Library bookplate (1977)’

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