ARMORIAL BOOK-PLATES.
Their romantic origin and artistic development. Pp. 176(last colophon, verso blank), numerous illustrations (16, including the frontispiece being hand-tipped or mounted bookplates), title page vignette, index; demy 8vo; brown patterned cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, a little light foxing and occasional slight offsetting; privately printed at The Beacon Press, Sydney, 1932. Standard Edition; one of 15 publisher's copies (total edition 315), signed by the author-publisher. Ferson 42. *With the author's signed presentation inscription, dated 1932, to Miss Bertha Truscott, on the upper free endpaper, opposite the latter's bookplate (as [Mrs.] B. Murray) on the upper pastedown. Loosely inserted (within a folded sheet of paper annotated in Mrs. Murray's hand) are 3 more copies of her bookplate, a newscutting about Barnett's bookplate collection, and a small folded pictorial advertising leaflet of The Australian Ex Libris Society (of which Barnett was Hon. Secretary), with a pencilled amendment to the Society's address details, presumably in Barnett's hand. The tipped-in bookplate examples include those of Sir Douglas Mawson, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, and the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Item #163189
Price: $900.00