A big day with a choice of SIX events to choose to attend at Melbourne Rare Book Week. I began with The MV Anderson Chess collection at State Library of Victoria. I knew that there was an impressive chess book collection and wanted to know the story behind it, I also saw the possibility of […]
There was only one event today. The Australian Sketchbook: Colonial life and the art of ST Gill. The room was full at the beautiful Old Treasury Building to listen as Dianne Reilly spoke of his life and great talent depicting the daily life of diggers in search of gold in the goldfields. I was trying […]
Melbourne Rare Book Week Day 2. There were five amazing talks on today I was able to attend three today. The day started with free Rare Book Appraisals by three experts. People brought along their books and prints to be appraised, find out about them and get a value. There were already a few […]
Today was the first day of Melbourne Rare Book Week and began with two talks that exemplify the variety of talks and expertise that is shared by the organisations and speakers. The first presentation was about the rare books survey at Museums Victoria Library. An appreciative audience asked lots of questions . There were a […]
A special mid week post. I have been the official urban sketcher at Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW) for the past two years. Each year during the week I write a daily blog post, posting my sketches from the events I attend. If you would like to see the sort of events they have held […]
Melbourne Rare Book Week continued …Monday to Sunday Today I am continuing last weeks summary of the first three days of Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW). On this page are a selection of my sketches from over the past week. All of my MRBW sketches can be seen in my flickr album here. I still […]
Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW) has begun again for another year! Melbourne Rare Book Week commenced in 2012 as a partnership between ANZAAB, the University of Melbourne and eight other literary institutions. In 2017, over 60 free events will be held at libraries, literary and historical societies and […]
Melbourne Rare Book “Week” actually goes for 11 days, culminating this weekend in the ANZAAB Australian Antiquarian Book Fair (Melbourne Rare Book Fair), held in the University of Melbourne’s historic Wilson Hall. I am flying to Manchester for the Urban Sketching Symposium tomorrow and will miss the two days of the Rare Book Fair. Today I […]
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF ROALD DAHL ( the centenary of his birth) Melbourne Library Service A whole day of events for all ages at Southbank Library. There is a display for Roald Dahl books including first editions and other interesting Dahl books. In the evening Chris Browne gave a talk on the publishing history and […]
I could only attend two of the nine Melbourne Rare Book Week events today – but gosh they were good ! A NOSE FOR OLD WINE BOOKS Hince on Wine Michael Hince I had used Google Street view to see what the building looked like and knew that I wanted to draw it ! […]