Colour Prints And Book-Plates

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 37, 24 February 1939, Page 16

Colour Prints And Book-Plates

(OLLECTORS of book-plates and Japanese colour-prints regard Mr. F. Neville Barnett as an old and valued friend. This noted authority lives and produces his beautiful books in Sydney, but his influence extends well beyond Australia and New Zealand. His many delightful publications, with their extremely lucid narratives and numerous examples of his subjects, have delighted and fascinated enthusiasts and, I am sure, considerably increased the ranks of collectors. He has recently produced a perfectly printed brochure, replete with book-plates, Japanese prints »nd reproductions of his numerous works, which provides a very useful account of the books on bool-plates and prints he has published since 1930. His last im: portant achieve:.ent is "Hiro. shige" (1938), which follows "Colour Prints of Hiroshige," published in 1937. One expert has described "Hiroshige" as being "exquisite in every tiay detail" and "Newspaper News" (Sydney) greets it as "one of the loveliest books vet done in

Australia."

A.R.

M.