Australian book collectors
Subtitle: some noted Australian book collectors & collections of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries
By: edited by Charles Stitz
Contributors: Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot), former owner
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bread Street Press in association with the Australian Book Auction Records
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bendigo [Vic.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780646533407
Subjects: Book collectors; Book collecting
Description: "Australian Book Collectors charts the lives and fascinating collecting careers of more than a hundred bibliophiles who lived during the first two completed centuries of Australia's history, first as a disparate group of British colonies, and then as an independent commonwealth. Biographical accounts of the collectors are given, together with details of their collecting careers, outlines of the collections, and their fates. Some of the collectors were also authors, and in those cases their major works are noted. Provenance is an important focus of the book, and attention is given to available information on the bookplates, booklabels, shelf marks, signatures and other marks of ownership employed by the collectors." --Book jacket, volume [1]
Notes: "This edition is limited to 500 copies, of which 490 are cloth bound, and ten, signed by the editor and numbered, are half-leather"--Verso of title page.

Contributions by John Arnold, Nicholas Dawes, Frances Devlin-Glass, John Fletcher, Heather Gaunt, Lionel Gilbert, Kenneth Hince, Cheryl Hoskin, Ann-Mari Jordens, Stuart Kells, Wallace Kirsop, Ian McLaren, Charles Stitz, Lurline Stuart, Peter Tinslay, Jonathan Wantrup, and Ian Wilson.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Volume [1]; title: volume [2] A-I; title: volume [3] I-Z and index to parts I & II.