Historical information

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 included an award for International bookplate designs.

Physical description

Trio of stylised faces with 'Ex Libris Ramana Maharshi in balloon lower right.

Inscriptions & markings

Pencilled beneath image EA 2/5 Milo 2019 and detail in Croatian with a circular impress stamp.