Design layout sheets with drawings for Allan Gamble's book 'Sydney', 1979, and an original drawing o...
Design layout sheets with drawings for Allan Gamble's book 'Sydney', 1979, and an original drawing of the Mitchell Library Reading Room, 1976 / drawings by Allan Gamble; Andew Halford, book designer for Methuen Australia
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1976-1979
Call Numbers
PXD 1362
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Drawings and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 37.8 x 55.9 cm - pen & ink
79 photographs - 36.3 x 57.5 cm or less - gelatin silver, chiefly black & white
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
PXD 1362/Folders 1-8Photographs of sketches from around Sydney with comments from the book designer for the printer, Macarthur Press at Parramatta. PXD 1362/Folder 8 also includes an original drawing of the Mitchell Library Reading Room.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Design layout sheets with drawings for Allan Gamble's book 'Sydney', 1979, and an original drawing of the Mitchell Library Reading Room, 1976 / drawings by Allan Gamble; Andew Halford, book designer for Methuen Australia
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Not included: title pages, foreword (by the Hon. Neville Wran, Q.C., M.P. Premier of New South Wales), preface (by Allan Gamble), contents, and the introduction to the first section, Central Civic Group, Folio 1. Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.4654 as part of the eRecords Project 2013-14
Signature / Inscriptions
Instructions to printer written in pencil on backing sheetsDrawing of the Mitchell Reading Room titled, signed and dated: 'Reading Room, Library of New South Wales', 'Gamble '76'
Date note
Dates on original drawings photographed for book layout range from 1972 to1978
Conservation note
All prints have been stuck to large sheets of paper with sticky tape. The sticky tape has deteriorated and the prints are coming loose from the sheets that have instructions for the printers.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Allan Gamble, 1980 Pic.Acc.4654
Administrative / Biographical history
Born in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1907, Allan Gamble was an architect and artist. He was well known for the series of books and prints he produced of Sydney University where he was a lecturer in architecture. In 1979 Methuen Australia published his book 'Sydney: drawings' in a limited edition of 310 copies. Allan Gamble died in 2001.Reference...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 1362
Record Identifier
YoldlDG9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YoldlDG9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1046051
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