Ron Edwards

Containers:

Box 19, Folio 2

Component identifier:

Series 14

Content Summary:

Original artwork; material re private press; limited edition publications: The Storm written and illustrated with linoleum blocks by Ron Edwards and printed by him in October 1950; Souvenir of complimentary dinner to J.K. Moir on occasion of award of OBE 1952: printed sheet by R.E.; jacket designs by R.E. for Colonial Ballads; original sketch by R.E. of loungeroom at John Kirtley's Rams Skull Press when R.E. and Barry Tutt joined Kirtley to work at the press.

There is also a collection of drafts, sketches, various designs by R.E.; original artwork jackets for The Australians by Bill Wannan and I can jump puddles by Alan Marshall; letter P.L. Brown to R.E. re history of Ocean Grove; collection of original artwork and posters for H.A. Goldrush Songster 16 pp. Rams Skull Press; Oberea: Rams Skull press edition, R.E./Ray Crooke design work; 2 Ray Crooke silk screen cards 1955.

Includes Stations of the Cross: Ray Crooke woodcuts, text of proposed introduction and one original woodcut, fine; collection of Christmas cards printed at Rams Skull press for Vance and Nettie Palmer, 2 for general sale by the Press; original designs for Christmas Cards by R.E.; R.E. original sketches for Nettie Palmer book on the Dandenongs; various broadsides designed and printed by R.E. at Rams Skull Press; 'Whinge', 'The Burden of Tyre', Jacky Bay Jones, verse by Manifold (printed at The Galley Press); Marco Polo Chronicles Nos. 1-4 (issued for The Australian Book Fair); Rams Skull Press, Anti-Bailiff Sale broadside; advertisements for Rams Skull Press Black Bull chapbooks by Anderson; broadside Royal Duke of Grantham, printed by R.E.; original artwork, coloured woodcut by R.E.; original artwork frontispiece Black Bull chapbooks; Bandicoot Ballads: original illus. by R.E.; advertising copy Bandicoot Ballads; article by R.E. and bibliography of the Rams Skull Press ex Biblionews July 1961; Anderson listing of additional material and unpublished typescript of an articles for Biblionews.

Together with R.E. Curriculum Vitae and 2 pp. typescript by R.E. 'A Word from the Rams Skull Press on Limited Editions', unpublished; list of material re Rams Skull Press purchased from Anderson by University of Texas; R.E. original artwork for Colonial Ballads and for Gold Rush Songster; unpublished sketches by R.E. for unpublished book on Australianisms drawing on Dad Dave, Larrikins etc; original printing sheets Bandicoot Ballads (nos. 9, 10, 11, 12) and (13, 14, 15, 16).

Names:

Anderson, Hugh

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