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Tom Roberts (1856–1931)
Bookplate for Barbara Lane Mullins
coloured print
reproduced from album dated 1820 to 1910
Pictures Collection
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This Tom Roberts bookplate made for Barbara Lane Mullins is one of a wide range of plates to be found in the National Library’s Collection, sometimes in company with the actual plate or printers block from which they were made. In the 1920s, when bookplates were booming, the plate-makers and the people for whom the plates were made formed a close network of writers, artists, printers, publishers, gallery-owners and promoters. Patrons used the plates to advertise their achievements or depict favourite possessions, interests, hobbies or pets. Read more...

May 2007 Volume XVII Number 8

‘Ex Libris’ Stories to Tell

Ann Nugent samples the Library’s array of bookplates

The Eric Nicholls collection

Christopher Vernon describes the Library’s acquisition last year of the papers and associated ephemera of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin

The Spurling Collection

Christine Burgess explores the legacy of three generations of Tasmanian photographers

Migrants’Tales

Barry York looks at the evolution in publication of migrant biographies and autobiographies

Sir Richard Bourke and La Clemenza Di Tito

Jeff Brownrigg investigates the ‘humane’ connection between an early colonial governor and a lesser-known Mozart opera

Friends

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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