Author: LONG, SYDNEY. Title: Bookplate: Colin B. Berckelman.
Description: Original bookplate printed in black ink from one block, signed in plate Ian Gall, (75 x 63mm), (c-1920) fine example. Sydney Long (1871-1955) was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, Long trained in decorative design before moving to Sydney in the early 1890s. He absorbed the lessons of naturalism and plain-air painting at the Art Society of New South Wales School, studying under A. J. Daplyn and Julian Ashton, and began exhibiting works in 1894. Colin Blake Berckelman (1887- 1965) was a bibliophile collecting all sort of things but his main interests were books, bookplates, and erotica.
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Price: AUD 100.00 = appr. US$ 69.19 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 110120