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Albert Ullin OAM (1930-2018)

Albert Ullin OAM (1930-2018)

January 17, 2020

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In 1960 Albert Ullin founded the first children’s bookshop in Melbourne and named it the Little Bookroom. This tiny shop in the Metropole Arcade, followed by later expansions into other… Read More ›

Illustrated children’s books: Samuel and William Calvert

Illustrated children’s books: Samuel and William Calvert

January 16, 2018

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The brothers Samuel and William Calvert established a series of children’s books in the 1870s called Calvert’s Australian Picture Books, bringing wood block printing techniques developed by the English master printer Edmund Evans to Australia.