Jane Austen, Emma, vol. 2, from The Novels of Jane Austen. With coloured illustrations by C.E. and H.M. Brock, London, J.M. Dent, 1897, Rare Books Collection, State Library Victoria.
Bibliophiles, get ready to surround yourself with some sublime paper work at the State Library of Victoria’s recently launched World of the Book exhibition: the rare, the sacred and the iconic.
With over 200 never-before exhibited items, the show is a survey of the history of book design, production and illustration from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Thuy On is the former Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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