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Sydney: Cassell Australia Limited, 1980. Publishers original blue boards with silver decoration to front cover and silver lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. Red endpapers, no inscriptions. 320pp including index. Profusely illustrated with magnificent b/w illustrations and colour plates throughout text. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. Over the past one hundred and fifty years, however, Australia has built up national collections of outstanding merit and significance. This book examines the development of these collections in museums of science, history and art, and in universities, libraries and houses throughout the country and considers how they adapt in times of rapid change and growing public interest in their holdings. Illustrations of work from the collections in each of these institutions have been carefully chosen to represent their character and history and to place them in the context of Australia's national collections.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine/Very Good/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.