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Colonial bookplates in a Country-House Library.
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The enthusiasm for bookplates which has framed the character of this issue of History has a strong artistic flavour and a strong twentieth-century emphasis. The art of the bookplate in the last hundred years is a very proper object of study. But colonial Australians also chose labels by which to establish ownership and impress personality on the books they owned. When P. Neville Barnett published his pamphlet The Bookplate in Australia in 1930, he gave short shrift to colonial book...
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