The last year has been a successful one for the Society, and the future of the Sydney branch and of Biblionews is looking good.
Category: 2006-12
Book Collectors’ Society Of Australia (Sydney Branch) 2006 Annual General MeetingSaturday, 2 September 2006
A meeting to form the New Australian Bookplate Society was held in Sydney on Sunday, 22 October 2006. A draft consititution was finalised, office bearers elected and committee appointed, and a number of activities canvassed for the coming year. According to the agreed Constitution, the aims of the Society are to raise awareness of, and promote, bookplates (ex libris) as both a historic and contemporary art form and to bring together individuals with an interest in designing, owning, studying or collecting bookplates.
The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online seeks to contact persons who contributed to the following works edited by the late Dr Joan Kerr:-The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers and Engravers to 1870, 1992-Heritage: the National Women’s Art Book, 1995