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2 unusual facts about Percy Neville Barnett


Percy Neville Barnett

Commissioning Adrian Feint and George David Perrottet to design plates which were to be gifts to the Prince of Wales and Princess Elizabeth, and which would also be included in his Woodcut Book-plates (1934).

Although they had been present in Australia from the very first days of European settlement, Bookplates remained an expensive and exclusive item reserved only for the literati, missionaries, military officers, government officials and the occasional landed gentlemen.



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