Born in Melbourne in 1871, Edith Alsop was one of a talented artistic family. Her sisters Florence and Ruth were journalist and architect respectively, and one of her brothers, who was also an architect, collaborated with Napier Waller. In 1899, the family visited Europe and on their return in 1900, Alsop joined the National Gallery School. She was in Europe again in 1913, and exhibited an etching in the Victorian Artists Society in 1916. During the years 1928 and 1929, she studied in Italy, Paris (with Andre Lhote) and London, where she learnt wood-engraving. She exhibited these prints with mainly European themes in Melbourne and Sydney in the early 1930s. Examples of her work were reproduced in Manuscripts no. 9, 1934.
RARE !!! Unable to find another for sale. A double sided page from the 1930s Australian periodical magazine “Manuscripts and Miscellany, Art & Letters” by editor / publisher Harry Tatlock Miller. The page features a woodcut bookplate of Pont Vecchio by E A M Alsop (Edith Annie Mary Alsop). Page size 18cms x 21cms, image large in size 14.2cms x 15.3cms. Excellent condition. Has been hinged on acid free white thin cardboard.
An Australian magazine, ran mainly quarterly, 1931–35. A vehicle for moderately advanced literary and art criticism, Manuscripts also became popular, especially in its later years, the publisher of avant-garde poetry.
