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Tyrrell was an avid bibliophile and a keen student and collector of
Australiana. He had one of the largest private collections of books in Sydney. He purchased the vast photographic archive of Kerry & Co., "Sydney's largest photographic studio of the late 1800s and early 1900s". Tyrrell named his
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In 1914 he returned to Sydney and opened a new business at 22 Castlereagh Street, again dealing in both books and art. While at his address he commenced a third business activity—publishing—which saw a growing catalogue of publications, including works by the
Australian writer and bush poet
129:(3 July 1875 – 30 July 1961) was an Australian bookseller, art dealer, publisher and author. He enjoyed a career of seven decades in the booktrade and was esteemed in his era as the "doyen of Sydney booksellers". He wrote a standard history of early bookselling in Australia entitled
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Tyrrell was fascinated in collectable items. He purchased the "established Hunter Street business, Antiques Ltd." and in 1924 bought out Tost and Rohu, an old-established firm dealing in "furs, curios, opals, and South Sea Island mementoes".
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became "a veritable treasurehouse" ... where artists, writers and collectors met to browse, to bargain or just to talk. It was crammed with paintings, prints, china, bronze, jade, ivories, coins, medals, and, of course, books.
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In 1907 Tyrrell, "with a capital of two hundred pounds saved over 17 years" started his own bookselling business known as
Tyrrell's Bookshop at the corner of Castlereagh and Market Streets. in 1910 he moved to
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purchase The
Tyrrell Collection and originally intended it to be displayed in a private museum of ethnography. In 1980, after this plan did not come to fruition, the collection finally passed to the
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on 17 August 1898. They had a son, James Eric, and a daughter, Dorothy. One of James's brothers, George, was a secondhand bookseller in lower
William Street, Sydney.
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When Angus and
Robertson moved to Castlereagh Street, Tyrrell was able to meet and converse with the many writers, artists and collectors who gathered there.
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In a series of finely-honed observations, mainly in anecdotal form, these books provide portraits of the "bookfellows" that he knew: booksellers such as
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Literary figures would often gather in
Tyrrell's shops, which acted as stimulating cultural centres. For example, the roomy Castlereagh bookshop:
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293:(1957), Tyrrell has left us a record of a "formative period in Australian cultural history", principally the years 1888-1905.
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My army, O, my army! : and other songs / by Henry Lawson My army, O, my army! : and other songs / by Henry Lawson
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to try his luck on the goldfields. His mother, Mary, née Colgan, was born in
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To express their gratitude several wrote poems, including:
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Australian Aboriginal Place-names and Their Meanings
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expert, became Angus and Robertson's chief buyer in
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