The Society issues a quarterly, full-colour Newsletter, with cover dates of March, June, September and December. The intention of the Newsletter is to publish a mixture of original material concerning contemporary bookplate artists, information on bookplate-related events such as auctions, sales and exhibitions, and items of historical interest. Most issues also feature a report from our trans-Tasman cousins at the Auckland Ex Libris Society. Each issue contains full-colour illustrations of bookplate designs. Members receive hard copies of the Newsletter, sometimes containing a tipped-in, original bookplate.

Newsletters (except for the most recent issue) are available as pdf files through the links below.

Newsletter no. 1, June 2006

Newsletter no. 2, September 2006

Newsletter no. 3, December 2006

Newsletter no. 4, March 2007

Newsletter no. 5, June 2007

Newsletter no. 6, September 2007

Newsletter no. 7, December 2007

Newsletter no. 8, March 2008

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , June 2008

Newsletter no. 10, September 2008

Newsletter no. 11, December 2008

Newsletter no. 12, March 2009

Newsletter no. 13, June 2009 

Newsletter no. 14, September 2009

N ewsletter no. 15 , December 2009

Newsletter no. 16, March 2010 has been sent to members; it includes a feature on George D Perrottet an accountant and cinema manager who produced over 200 colour linocut bookplates in a 35-year career; in follow up to Christine Downer's description in Newsletter no. 14 of some of the collections of European bookplates in the State Library of Victoria, there is  a further note on L L Politzer who promoted bookplates in Melbourne before and after the Second World War.

Newsletter no. 17 will shortly be at the printers; it reports on the Society's Third Annual General Meeting held in June at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Steven Miller, head of the Gallery's Research Library and Archive spoke on the Corrigan Collection of Australian Artists' Bookplates, and his notes on the collection provide a frther article in our series on 'Bookplate collections in Australian institutions'.

We have also begun to prepare Newsletter no. 18, due for publication at the end of September. It wil feature, among other things, a report on the internation bookplate congress being held in Istanbul in late August.

If you have any ideas or contributions for the Newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact the Editor, Dr Mark Ferson at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or the Designer, Mary Keep at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   Contributions need neither be long nor academic; anything which may be of interest to bookplate lovers, including Letters to the Editor, Book or Exhibition Reviews, or any short note, will be cheerfully and gratefully received.