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.

Physical description

square plate angled and configured as a diamond shape and printed in black and brown with stylised Pinocchio and characters from the story. A caligraphic 'Ex Libris' and Chinese characters in plate.

Inscriptions & markings

Inscribed in pencil on lower two sides of diamond ' "Pinocchio" Etching artist's signature 2018 ef.'