"This edition is limited to 500 copies, of which 490 are cloth bound, and ten, signed by the editor and numbered, are half-leather"--Verso title page, volume [1]
Volume [1] -- volume [2] A-I -- volume [3] I-Z and index to parts I & II.

"Australian Book Collectors charts the lives and fascinating collecting careers of more than a hundred bibliophiles who lived during the first two completed centuries of Australia's history, first as a disparate group of British colonies, and then as an independent commonwealth. Biographical accounts of the collectors are given, together with details of their collecting careers, outlines of the collections, and their fates. Some of the collectors were also authors, and in those cases their major works are noted. Provenance is an important focus of the book, and attention is given to available information on the bookplates, booklabels, shelf marks, signatures and other marks of ownership employed by the collectors." --Book jacket, volume [1]

Volume I
Contributions by: John Arnold, Nicholas Dawe, Frances Devlin-Glass, John Fletcher, Heather Gaunt, Lionel Gilbert, Kenneth Hince, Cheryl Hoskin, Ann-Mari Jordens, Stuart Kells, Wallace Kirsop, Ian McLaren, Charles Stitz, Lurline Stuart, Peter Tinslay, Jonathan Wantrup, Ian Wilson.

Collectors: George Allen, Henry Allport, Magnus Victor Anderson, P. Neville Barnett, Charles Barrett, Sir Redmond Barry, George Bennett, Sir Clarence Irving Benson, Ellis Bent, Alexander Berry, Berry Family Collection, Charles Bertie, James Bicheno, Eric Glenie Bonython, Dame Mabel Brookes, Tom Austen Brown, Charles Ernest Bryant, Tristan Buesst, Geoffrey Cains, Harry Chaplin, John Chapman, Russell Chirnside, Marcus Clarke, Sir Rupert Clarke, F. Holbill Cole, Frederick George Coles, Patrick Corrigan, G.K Cowlishaw, D. Clifford Craig, Robert Henderson Croll, Sir. W Crowther, John Lang Currie, Rodney Davidson, Daniel Henry Deniehy, Dudley Dickson, Sir William Dixson, Peter Dodds, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, William Augustine Duncan, Edward John Dunn, Douglas A. Dunstan, James Edge-Partington, John Pascoe Fawkner, Sir J.A Ferguson, Judge Barron Field, John Edward Fletcher, Rhys S. Fox, John Gartner, Lionel Arthur Gilbert, Charles R.J Glover, Howard Boyd Graham, John Herbert Gregory, W.R.D Griffiths, Henry Gurner, Walter Champion Hackett, Ivo and Rollo Hammet, Hawker Library, Edward Leo Hayes, William Edward Hearn, Sir John Henniker Heaton, Kenneth Hince, Tom Hogarth, John Holyroyd, Robert Howe, Geoffrey C. Ingleton, A.S Kenyon, Sir Adrian Knox, Alfred Lee, Clive Lord, The Camden Park Library, John Macgregor, George Mackaness, Dorethea Mackellar, Ian Mclaren, R.J Maria, Gregory M. Matthews, Sir Archibald Michie, David Scott Mitchell, John Kinmont Moir, William Henry Moore, George E. Morrison, Phillip Crosbie Morrison, John Lane Mullins, Sir Rex de Charembac Nan Kivell, Sir Charles Nicholson, James Norton, Sir Henry Parkes, Charles Henry Pearson, Edward E. Pescott, E.A Petherick, Sir Thomas Phillipps, John Boys Ponder, Robert Henry Pulleine, William Rae, Sir Thomas M. Ramsay, John Joseph Shillinglaw, Sir William Silver, Kenneth Slessor, James Smith, Sir W. Baldwin Spencer, Vic Spitzer, Dan Sprod, Joseph John Spruson, Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse, Robert Carl Stitch, Sir Edward Charles Stirling, Walter Stone, William Story, Sir Josiah Symon, A.B Triggs, S.C.P Turnbull, Karl Von Stieglitz, James Backhouse Walker, Peter Benson Walker, William Walker, Jonathon Wantrup, Sir Samuel James Way, Margareta Webber, Norman Wettenhall, Henry L. White, Winter Cooke Library, Margaret Woodhouse, Fred Wynmark.

Volume II A-I
Contributions by Richard Aitken, Geoffrey Burkhardt, Eileen Chanin, Des Cowley, Pauline Dickinson, John William Earnshaw, Robert Edwards, Ben Haneman, Valmai Hankel PSM, Harry Gordon Hodges, Robert Holden, Donald Kerr, Tim McCormick, Tony Marshall, Kevin Molloy, Neil A. Radford, James Errol Scarlett, Charles Stitz, Walter Stone (1910-81), Chris Tiffin, Susan Tompkins, Ian Wilson.

Collectors:
Arthur Andrew Abbie, James Aikenhead, William George Alma, Graham Richard Anderson, Robert Cecil Bald, Miles Barne and The Longueville Collection, George Bass, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, John Watt Beattie, Colin Blake Berckelman, Timothy Bourke, David Lake Bremer, Bernard Gore Brett, Justin McCarthy Browne, Charles William Bushell, John Frederick and Calvert, George Calvert, Robert Cartwright, William George Charker, John Burton Cleland, Frederick Stanley Colliver, John Edward Corcoran, John Creedy, Robert Dalley-Scarlett, John Dean, William Houison Deane, Patrick John Francis Dobrilla, Ronald Douglas, Henry Grattan Douglass, Sophie Charlotte Ducker, Henry Hampden Dutton, Louise B.M Hanson Dyer, Robert Edwards, David Frederick Elder, Reginald Spencer Ellery, Bruce Llewellyn Evans, Ronald Nickels Finlayson, Harold Jack Finnis, Edward Ford, Phillip McIlwraith Forrest, Frank Menzies Cameron Forster, Henry Fulton, Bryan Harle Gadevia, William Sydney Gibbons, Henry Ginn, George Gipps, Wilfred James Goold, Robert Gouger, Frederick Goulburn, Ronald Edward Graham, George Grey, Wilfred Russell Grimwade, Ronald Campbell Gunn, Cecil Harry Huddlestone Hay Hadgraft, Alexander Campbell Hamilton, Benedetto Haneman, Matthew Harris, William Henry Harris, Edward Hayes, Iain Graham Herriot, Richard Hill, Richard Henry (Hengist) Horne, Konstantin Mikhailovich Hotimsky, Godfrey Howitt, William Godfrey Howitt, Albert Gordon Hughes, William Henry Hurst.


Volume III I-Z
Contributions by Mary Azzarito, Peter G. Bolt, Clare Bradford, Eileen Chanin, Ruth Dwyer, Wallace Kirsop, Mary Lugton, Kevin Molloy, Ian Morrison, Jeff Prentice, Dr Stephanie Owen Reeder, James Errol Scarlett, Nigel Sinnott, Charles Stitz.

Collectors discussed: Walter Alan Ives, Nancye Ken Perry, Wallace Kirsop, John Dunmore Lang, William Harold Langham, Leslie Logan, George McArthur, Eric Edward McDonald, Allan McInnes, David Ross McPhee, Joseph Henry Maiden, John Maund, James Mitchell, Thomas Moore, Harrie Percivale Mortlock, John Andrew Tennant Mortlock, Henry Blake Muir, Kathleen Marcelle Muir, Terence Aubrey Murray, Benjamin Suggitt Nayler, Joyce Thorpe Nicholson, Nicholas Michael O'Donnell, John O'Shanassy, Alexander Oliver, John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley, Alexander Patrick, Harry Hastings Pearce, Reginald Ralph Pilkington, Roland James Pope, Kenneth John Pound, John Orde Poynton, Peter Dowding Prankerd, Jeffrey Barry Prentice, John Rae, John Ormond Randell, Richard Sanders Rogers, Charles Rowcroft, George William Rusden, George Russell, Kenneth Fitzpatrick Russell, James Errol Scarlett, Thomas Scott, Edna Louise Shaw, Bernard William Smith, Ralph Edwin Smith, William John Snowden, Stuart Rusden Stoneman, Robert Arthur Swan, Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher, Ricahrd Thomas Tracy, Richard Lennard Travers, Paul Ambrose Tripcony, John Walter Tyas, George Patrick Verdon, Thomas Welsby, Phillip Sydney Whelan, Richard Windeyer, Edward Wise, James Holbrook Wood, Charles May Yelland

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Volume numbering cataloguer assigned. Volume [2] on title page : 'Second series Part I ; volume [3] on title page: 'Second series Part II' ; on spines of volumes [2-3] : II and III.
Volume [1] published by Bread Street Press in association with the Australian Book Auction records ; volumes [2-3] published by Green Olive Press, Woollahra, N.S.W.


Volume IV A-H

Contributors to volume
Stuart Braga, Shane Carmody, Sir Peter Crisp, John Cummins, Margaret Dent, Ross Edmonds, John Emmerson, Jim Findlay, Jock Grey, Gary Kent, Wallace Kirsop, Suzanne Richards, Charles Stitz, Helen Whitington

Collectors: Francis Abbott, James Blackburn, Sydney Stansell Blake, Jose Maria Braga, Stuart Braga, Christopher John Brennan, Franics de Castelnau, John Gregory Cummins, Charles Sibbald Currie, Ross William Edmonds, Aldophus Peter Elkin, John McLaren Emmerson, Florence, Mary and William Pitt Faithfull, James John Falconer, James Douglas Findlay, Thomas Gill, Archbishop James Alipius Goold, Geoffrey Perrin Grey, Joseph Griffiths, Ralph Meyrick Hague, Sit Sydney Henry (Randal) Hermason, Alec Derwent Hope, William Howat, Spencer Hume Jackson, Edwin Jewell, Edward Angas Johnston

Volume V I-Z

Contributors to the volume
Tracey Gibbons, Edwin Jewell, Wallace Kirsop, Andrew Lemon, David Levine, Michael O'Brien, Terry O'Neill, Glen Ralph, Dianne Reilly, Suzanne Rickard, Colin Steele, Matthew Stephens, Charles Stitz

Collectors
Charles Joseph La Trobe, Sir John Greig Latham, Harry Leaver, Friedrich Wilhelm Leichhardt, David Daniel Levine, Thomas McCombie, Alexander McLeay, William Sharp Macleay, William John Macleay, Alexander Morrison, Sir Ronald Mungo Ferguson, Lord Novar of Raith, Terence George O'Neill, Eugene Gurney Patmore, Edward Warren Owen Perry, Kazimierz Posney, Claud Annett Prance, Jon Prance, Glen Ross Ralph, Archbishop Thomas Thornton Reed, Preston Guy Reynolds, David Nichol Smith, Colin Robert Steele, Andrew Thompson, Albert Leslie Tremewan, Henry Giles Turner, Keith Everard Wingrove, Edward Harold Wythes