Signed Irena Sibley in pencil lower right below print

After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. The competition includes a design award for secondary schools students. Signed Irena Sibley in pencil lower right below print.bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust

Bookplate featuring mythical creatures.jack ayerbe, bookplate, keith wingrove memorial trust

Pat Corrigan was a lifelong collector of fine art and rare book and commissioned Australian artists to design personal bookplates for his family since the 1970s. Bookplate featuring Patrick Corrigan playing a trumpet in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.Signed: Andrew Sibley 2014patrick corrigan, sydney harbour bridge, trumpet, bookplates

Bookplate featuring a girl holding a bunch of flowers under a spotlight in front of a churchfr. bob mcguire, father bob, church, flowers

Bookplate featuring a female nude with arms crossedex libris, bookplate, edwin jewell, nude, andrew sibley

Bookplate featuring a couple wearing crownscrown, robert littlewood

Bookplate featuring a kangaroo and joey under moon and starsknagaroo, joey, geoffrey ricardo

Bookplate featuring paintbrushes and flowersflowers, robert juniper, paintbrushes

Bookplate featuring a gorilla on a log with a snake gorilla, snake, patrick hutchings

Bookplate featuring a medieval boy in blue carrying an urnmedieval, urn, boy, bookplate, john thwaites

Bookplate featuring a red rooster holding a paintbrushrooster, paintbrush, bookplate, andrew sibley

Bookplate featuring a Botticelli angel between 2 torches/paintbrushesnude, botticelli angel, bookplate, godwin bradbeer

Bookplate featuring a guitar in front of Ayers Rockguitar, ayers rock, bookplate, gary shearston

Bookplate featuring a blue mermaid mermaid, blue, bookplate, edwin jewell

Bookplate featuring a girl in orange holding a wine glass bookplate, robert littlewood, girl, wine glass

Bookplate featuring a woman in a blue dress with a cat bookplate, penny ziakas, woman, cat

Bookplate featuring a couple dressed in red embracing bookplate, douglas stewart, couple, red, embracing

Bookplate featuring a brown eaglebookplate, rodney hall, eagle, brown

Bookplate featuring two owls with a paintbrushbookplate, john olsen, two owls, paintbrush