AUSTRALIAN BOOK-PLATES AND BOOK-PLATES OF INTEREST TO AUS...
by Barnett, P. Neville
Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies by the Beacon Press on Worthy Signature Highplate paper. With chapters such as Early Engravers, Earliest Book-Plates and Their Order of Precedence, Modern Pictorials, Later Armorials and Book-Plates from Abroad. Examines form, iconography, text design and style. Includes bookplates belonging to such figures as Captain Cook, Winston Churchill, General Sir Thomas Brisbane, King George IV and other members of the British royal family. With 284 plates, 79 of which are tipped in. These plates are mostly colored and some are signed. Two hand colored plates in the text as well. The tipped-in plates offer a dazzling display of paper types and printing techniques as well. The whole volume presents an astonishing range of styles and subject matter. An intriguing glimpse into the realm of self-presentation. Uncut edges. Ex libris of P.C. Hobson on front pastedown, signed by Hobson. Patterned endpapers. Signed by the author. Spine of jacket slightly faded.
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