Series:
W E L H Crowther Bookplate Collection
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1804
End Date:
31 Dec 1969
Creating Agency:
W E L H Crowther Collection (NG50) | 01 Jan 1825 | 31 Dec 1981 |
Related Series:
CRO36 Personal Effects of Molesworth Jeffery | 25 Feb 1860 | 11 Sep 1971 |
Series notes:
This series contains W E L H Crowther's collection of book plates from public and subscription libraries and private collections. The collection includes two stamps for the making of bookplate print, two scrapbook albums and loose plates.
Album 1 includes plates from public and church libraries, as well as libraries of significant Australian people, including the following:
Tasmanians: Judge Sir John Lewes Pedder, Colonial Secretary James Ebenezer Bicheno, Mining magnate Roger Carl Sticht, Convict watchmaker Francis Abbott, lawyer Frank Stanley Dobson, newspaper editor Molesworth Jeffery, Alexander Maconochie, Alfred Kennerley, lawyer Joseph Hone, judge William Robert Giblin, William Bland, solicitor George Allen.
Australians: Judge Sir Redmond Barry, William Augustine Duncan, Judge Sir Roger Therry, chief justice and lieutenant-governor Sir Philip Whistler Street, cricket coach George Leonard Garnsey, artist Lionel Lindsay, Sir Charles Nicholson, Judge Sir Redmond Barry, Victorian Governor Sir Charles Henry Darling, maritime historian Geoffey C Ingleton, book collector David Scott Mitchell, Doctor George Mackaness, Robert Campbell, Albert Augustus Dangar, Navy commissioner John Deas Thomson, Admiral Sir Charles Forbes, Frederick Bridges, John Blaxland, Sydney Burdekin, soldier Herbert George Jones
New Zealanders: Book collector Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, Sir Joseph Kinsey
Includes etchings by artists Norman and Lionel Lindsay
Album 2 includes plates from the libraries of significant Australian people including the following:
Tasmanians: Governor Sir Ernest Clark
Australians: bookplate authority Philip Neville Barnett, Governor of New south Wales Sir Philip Game, Samuel Sydney Cohen, William Frederick Buchanan, Captain Cook, politician Arthur Robinson, book plate artist P.Roach Pierson, Archbishop of Melbourne Frederick Waldegrave Head, book collector H B Muir
Includes etchings by artist P Roach Pierson
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
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