John Gartner was a fine printer and publisher, an author, a noted philatelist, and also collector of Australian banknotes and coins. He was born on 16 July 1914 and was largely self-educated, leaving school at fourteen for work following the death of his father. Gartner developed a strong interest in the history of typography and printing and was apprenticed at the Advocate where his father had been a linotype operator. Aged 17, Gartner bought a hand press and some fonts of type, and in 1937 acquired a platen press from which he set and printed his private press books, published under the imprint of The Hawthorn Press. Gartner had a strong collection of Australian bookplates. He also looked at the work of artists overseas and commissioned personal plates. He subsequently built an international collection with preference for artists who printed from wood. His initial searches were in Belgium and Holland.(http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-84/t1-g-t7.html) The solid shapes of printmaking materials fan out in a pattern around the centrally placed intials J GPencil signature bottom rightprintmaking, bookplate, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust

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. A pelican is depicted perched amongst foliage0/100 pencil signature bottom right cornerprintmaking, bookplate, australian bookplate design award, keith

Framed bookplate for Robert Jewellrobert jewell, bookplate, framed bookplate, available, available bookplate, keith wingrove memorial trust

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Etching showing Kangaroo reading with pouch containing booksSigned and dated 2015 lower right geoffrey ricardo, bookplate, australian bookplate design awards, winner 2015

Irena Sibley

Signed in pencil Irena Sibley

Signed Irena Sibley in pencil below print.

Signed Irena Sibley in pencil lower right beneath print.bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust