FOR THE PAST FORTY YEARS I have been a modest, though some times passionate collector of early Australian books and ephemera. As early as the mid-1960s I was attracted to historical pictorial items. The printed work of the early colonial artists was only sometimes within my reach but I soon became aware of the wealth and accessibility of the more humble material of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Souvenir booklets and postcards of this period became special interests for me.
