NSW Bookstall Company
Source: https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14843 Parent: https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/
14843
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NSW Bookstall Company
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Collection Description
This collection features original artwork and illustrations for books published by the NSW Bookstall Company held by the University of Sydney Library.
Founded by Henry Lloyd in 1879, the NSW Bookstall Company started as a chain of railway kiosks selling affordable paperbacks to travellers at a time when most travel is undertaken by rail. After Lloyd’s death in 1897, Alfred Cecil Rowlandson bought the business and led the Company’s successful foray into mass market paperback publishing. It published Australian popular fiction and postcards, operated bookshops, circulating libraries and a news agency distribution. The company operated from 1879-1946.
The collection features over a hundred original images, a third of which are bold and eye-catching cover designs by renowned Australian artists, notably the Lindsay brothers, Lionel, Percy and Norman, Sydney Ure Smith, Arthur Moginie and Percy Spence among others. Some items have not been made available in this collection due to their copyright status.
Collection SummaryOriginal artwork and illustrations for books published by the NSW Bookstall Company held by the University of Sydney Library.
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Cover art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'Rung in' by Arthur Wright](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14835)
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Cover art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'Bindawalla: an Australian story' by Thomas Edward Spencer](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14834)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'The golden kangaroo' by Ambrose Pratt](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14833)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'Tommy the hawker and Snifter his boy' by Edward Dyson](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14832)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'Tommy the hawker and Snifter his boy' by Edward Dyson](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14831)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'Tommy the hawker and Snifter his boy' by Edward Dyson](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14830)
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Cover art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'Tommy the hawker and Snifter his boy' by Edward Dyson](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14829)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'Gentleman Jack, bushranger' by Don Delaney](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14828)
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Cover art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'By His Excellency's command' by Roy Bridges](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14827)
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Cover art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'Billy Pagan, mining engineer' by Randolph Bedford](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14826)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'The mare with the silver hoof' by Robert Allan](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14825)
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Cover art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'The mare with the silver hoof' by Robert Allan](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14824)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'The sign of the serpent' by John Henry Macartney Abbott](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14823)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'The sign of the serpent' by John Henry Macartney Abbott](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14822)
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Cover art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'The sign of the serpent' by John Henry Macartney Abbott](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14821)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for an unknown book](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14820)
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Art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for an unknown book](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14819)
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Cover art by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence for 'An Australian peer' by George Forbes](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14818)
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Art by David Henry Souter for an unknown book](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14817)
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Art by David Henry Souter for 'Mum Dawson, "Boss"' by Sumner Locke](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14816)
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Art by David Henry Souter for 'Mum Dawson, "Boss"' by Sumner Locke](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14815)
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Art by David Henry Souter for 'Mum Dawson, "Boss"' by Sumner Locke](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14814)
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Art by David Henry Souter for 'Mum Dawson, "Boss"' by Sumner Locke](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14813)
NSW Bookstall Company. University of Sydney Library, accessed 23/03/2026, https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14843