2019

Roger Butler and Yvette Dal Pozzo, 'Introduction' in Ilona Mazeikiene and Regina Urboniene (editors), Terra Australis incognita: Lithuanian artists in Australia, Lithuanian Art Museum, 2019.

2016

Elspeth Pitt and Roger Butler (editors), Mike Parr: Language and chaos, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2016.

2015

Roger Butler, 'Prints of Tom Roberts, in Gray, Anne, Tom Roberts, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2015.

Roger Butler, 'Preface' in Hilary Maddocks, Hertha Kluge-Pott: Printmaker, Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2015, page 7.

2014

Roger Butler, 'Making prints in England 1962-72' in Hart, Deborah, Arthur Boyd: Agony & ecstasy. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2014, pages 179-185.

2013

Roger Butler (ed.), Stars in the river: The prints of Jessie Traill, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2013.

Roger Butler, 'A gentle man' in Gates, Merryn (editor), Jorg Schmeisser: bilder der reise, a man who likes to draw, Lyneham, A.C.T. : SFA Press &​ Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013.

2012

Roger Butler, 'Foreword', to Peter Dowling, Index to imagery in colonial Australian illustrated newspapers. Hamilton, Vic: The author, 2012, pages ix-x.

2011

Roger Butler, 'From vision to edition', in Prints from the Griffith Studio 1978-2011, Hazelhurst, NSW: Hazelhurst Regional Galleries & Arts Centre, 2011.

Roger Butler, 'Print matters' in Jaynie Anderson (editor), The Cambridge companion to Australian art, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pages 97-108

2010

Roger Butler, 'Printed images of New South Wales: London and Sydney, 1800-1820' in Alisa Bunbury (editor), This wondrous land: Colonial art on paper, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2010, pages 44-47.

Roger Butler, 'Street art: Past and present, here and there' in Babington, Jacklyn, Space invaders: Australian street stencils, posters, paste-ups, zines, stickers, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2010, pages 52-55.

2009

Roger Butler, 'Salvatore Zofrea: an appreciation' Anne Ryan, Salvatore Zofrea: Days of summer, Sydney: Mosman Art Gallery, 2009, pages 14-15

Roger Butler, 'Adrian Feint prints and book arts pages' in Richard Heathcote (editor), Adrian Feint: Cornucopia, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2009, pages 29-31

2007

Roger Butler, Printed images by Australian artists 1801 - 1901, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2007

Roger Butler, Printed images by Australian artists 1885 - 1955, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2007

Roger Butler, 'Forward' in Murray Walding, Plastered: The poster art of Australian popular music, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007

2005

Roger Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: A catalogue raisonne, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2005 (Revised and enlarged edition)

Roger Butler, 'Foreword', in Sasha Grishin, The art of Grahame King, Melbourne: Macmillian Art Publishers, 2005. page 8.

2004

Roger Butler and Anne Virgo, Place made: Australian Print Workshop, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2004

2003

Roger Butler, 'Glovers prints and printmaking' in Hansen, David (ed.). John Glover and the colonial picturesque. Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia, 2003, pages 268-279

A twenty-year relationship. L. Gordon Darling in conversation with Roger Butler, Senior Curator of Australian Prints and Drawings, in Green, Pauline (ed.). Building the collection. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2003

Roger Butler, 'Trevor Lyons (1945-1990). Journeys in my head (states 1, 7, 13, 22)', in Wilkins, Lola (ed.). Artists in action, from the collection of the Australian War Memorial. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 2003, page 140

2002

Roger Butler, 'Political clout: Australian posters' in Eye magazine, number 46, winter 2002

Roger Butler, 'William Dargie b.1912; Brisbane 1942', in Gray, Anne (ed.), Australian art in the National Gallery of Australia. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2002, page 187

Roger Butler, 'Jessie Traill 1881-1967; Good night in the gully where the white gums grow 1922, in Gray, Anne (ed.), Australian art in the National Gallery of Australia. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2002, page 134

Roger Butler, 'Adrian Feint 1894-1971; The collector 1926…Will Dyson 1880-1938; Our ultra moderns…c.1929.' in Gray, Anne (ed.), Australian art in the National Gallery of Australia. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2002, page 142

Roger Butler, 'Prints: an aspect of the collection.' in Points of View: University of Technology Sydney Art Collection. Sydney: University of Technology, 2002, [pages 31-41]

2001

Roger Butler (ed.), Islands in the sun', Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2001.

Roger Butler, 'Roy Dalgarno [Obituary]' in Art Monthly Australia, number 137, March 2001, pages 37-8

1999

Roger Butler, 'Powerful Posters' in Powerful posters- poster art in Melbourne. Melbourne: Redplanet, 1999

Roger Butler, 'Violet Teague and Japonisme, Printed Works', in Clark, Jane and Druce, Felicity (eds). Violet Teague 1872-1951. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1999, pages 60-72.

R. Butler and J. Gillespie, Landscapes in Sets and Series; Australian Prints 1960s – 1990s. Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 1999

Roger Butler, 'Introduction' in Nick Mitzevich, The embellished image Vera Zulumovski a ten year survey, Newcastle, NSW: University of Newcastle. School of Fine Art, 1999.

Roger Butler, 'Foreword' to Leo Christie, Crossroads: Millennium Portfolio of Australian Aboriginal Artists, Sydney: 21C Pty Limited, 1999

Roger Butler, The Europeans: Émigré artists in Australia. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1999 (Traveling Exhibition Catalogue)

1998

Roger Butler, Vera Zulumovski: A Survey Exhibition of Linocuts 1990-1998, Newcastle, NSW: Lindsay Street Gallery, 1998

Roger Butler, 'Pattowatto and Compressed strata at Morphett Valley by William Blandowski' in Johns, Elizabeth (ed). New Worlds from Old. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia and Wadsworth Atheneum, 1998

1997

Roger Butler (ed), The Europeans: Émigré artists in Australia. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1997

1996

Roger Butler, 'Margaret Preston's Banksia woodcut.' In Australian Garden History, volume 8, no.3, December 1996

Roger Butler, ‘Adrian George Feint’ (1894-1971), in Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 14, 1996, pages146-147

Roger Butler, 'Tom Roberts, etcher' in Radford, Ron (ed), Tom Roberts. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1996, pages 182-185

Roger Butler, 'Benjamin Duterrau, Part II: Some Curatorial Observations' in Sue-Anne Wallace with Jacqueline Macnaughtan and Jodi Parvey, The Articulate Surface Canberra: ANU Humanities Research Council and National Gallery of Australia, 1996

Roger Butler, Introduction, in Printabout: Lithographs, etchings and linoprints from the Northern Territory University Art Collection. Darwin: Artback NETS, 1996

Roger Butler, Women hold up half the sky: the Orientation of art in the post-war Pacific, Monash, Vic.: Monash University Gallery, 1996

1995

Roger Butler, Sydney by Design. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1995

Roger Butler, 'Foreword' Geoffrey Brown: Survey exhibition 1952-1957, Melbourne: Eastgate Gallery, 1995

1993

Roger Butler, 'Aboriginal prints: a curator's and collector's viewpoint' in Stephen Anderson and Tim Smith (eds) Getting into prints: A symposium on Aboriginal printmaking Darwin: Association of Northern and Central Australian Aboriginal Artists in Association with School of Fine arts, Northern Territory University, 1993

Roger Butler, Poster Art in Australia, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1993

Roger Butler, Alan Sumner Screenprints. Melbourne: Eastgate Gallery, 1993. (Catalogue Raisonne)

1992

Roger Butler, Index to Imprint. Sydney: Discovery Media, 1992 (CD Rom)

Roger Butler, Index to exhibitions of the Australian Painter-Etchers Society. Sydney: Discovery Media, 1992 (CD Rom)

Roger Butler, My Head is a Map. A decade of Australian prints, celebrating ten years of the Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund, 1982-1992. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1992

Roger Butler, 'Morgan La Fay: A Women of Power' in David Thomas (ed) The Art of Christian Waller. Bendigo: Bendigo Art Gallery 1992. (Catalogue Raisonne)

1991

Roger Butler & Ann Kirker, Being and Nothingness: Bea Maddock. Work From Three Decades, Canberra: Australian National Gallery & Queensland Art Gallery, 1991

Roger Butler, 'The streets as Art Galleries' in Trading Places, Australian Travel Posters 1909-1990. Clayton: Monash University 1991

Roger Butler, foreword to The book and print show. Wollongong, NSW: University of Wollongong, 1991

Roger Butler, foreword to Lidia Groblicka: Woodcuts and paintings. Canberra: aGOG, 1991

Roger Butler, 'Thomas Bock, Engraver.' in Dunbar, Diane (editor), Thomas Bock: Convict Engraver, Society Portraitist. Canberra: ANG & Launceston: QVMAG 1991. (Catalogue Raisonne)

Roger Butler, 'True stories' in Ron McBurnie, more suburban etchings. Townsville, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 1991

1990

Roger Butler, foreword to Diane Fogwell etchings, 1988-1990. 1990

Roger Butler, 'The rise of the lithographic poster in Australia' in Australian Travel Posters Sydney: Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1990

Roger Butler, 'Industrial imagery and the etchings of J.C.Goodhart.'in J.C. Goodhart, Broken Hill: Broken Hill City Art Gallery, 1990

Roger Butler, Prints by Mike Parr, Canberra: Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund for Australian National Gallery, 1990. (Catalogue Raisonne)

1989

Roger Butler, 'Redback - a web of precedents, people and parallels' in Reback Graphix. Now we are 10. Sydney: Reback Graphix, 1989

Roger Butler, Prints by Seven Australian Aboriginal Artists, Canberra: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1989

Roger Butler, 'Clive Raymond Wallis' forward to The Prints of Clive Raymond Wallis, Sydney: Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989

1988

Roger Butler, 'The Artists and their Printer', Bicentennial Collection: A Portfolio of Australian Artists, Sydney: Cancer Council of Australia, 1988

Roger Butler, 'Foreword' in Newcastle Printmakers, Speers Point, NSW: Lake Macquarie Gallery, 1988

Roger Butler, 'Violet Teague', foreword to Violet Teague, Nightfall in the Ti-tree [facsimile edition], Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1988

Roger Butler, 'Homage to Munakata', foreword to exhibition catalogue, Woodcut, Sydney: Macquarie Galleries, 1988

Roger Butler, Prints by Twenty-five Australian Artists, Canberra: Australian National Gallery and Australian Bicentennial Authority, 1988

Roger Butler, With the Imprint of Another Culture, Melbourne: Print Council of Australia, 1988

Roger Butler, 'Thea Proctor' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: Australian National University, 1988

Roger Butler, 'John Shirlow' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: Australian National University, 1988

Roger Butler, 'Electricity Castle' in Daniel Thomas (ed.), Creating Australia, Sydney: I.C.C.A., and Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1988

Roger Butler, 'Lithography in Australia: Melbourne 1948-1958' in Pat Gilmore (ed.), Lasting Impressions, Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1988, pages 283-295

1987

Roger Butler, Margaret Preston, the Prints, Canberra: Australian National Gallery & Oxford University Press, 1987 (Catalogue Raisonne)

Roger Butler, 'Some notes on the print trade in Australia in the nineteenth-century'. in J. Lebovic (ed.), Masterpieces of Australian Printmaking, Sydney: Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1987

1986

Roger Butler, 'Ernest Moffit' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: Australian National University, 1986

Roger Butler, foreword to The Prints of Alun Leach-Jones, Armidale: New England Regional Art Gallery, 1986

Roger Butler, 'Rupert Bunny: The Monotypes' in M. Eagle, Rupert Bunny's Mythologies at the Australian National Gallery, (room brochure), Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1986

1985

Roger Butler, Australian Prints in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1985

1984

Roger Butler, Recent Acquisitions of Australian Prints, Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1984 (room brochure)

1983

Roger Butler, Colin Little: Poster maker, Canberra: Bitumen River Gallery, 1983. Reprinted Bitumen River Gallery Newsletter, September 1983. (Room brochure)

Roger Butler, 'The screenprint in Australia', The Screenprint, (room brochure), Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1983. (Exhibition catalogue)

1982

Roger Butler, foreword to M. Heffernan The linocuts of Edward Heffernan, Canberra: The Jester Press, 1982

1981

Roger Butler, Melbourne woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Ballarat, Victoria: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in conjunction with the Australian Directors Council, 1981. (Exhibition catalogue)

Roger Butler and J. Minchin, Thea Proctor, the prints, Sydney: Resolution Press, 1981 (Exhibition catalogue, Catalogue Raisonne)

1979

Roger Butler, Vera Blackburn, linocuts, Melbourne: Deutscher Galleries, 1979 (Exhibition catalogue, Catalogue Raisonne)

Roger Butler, Raymond McGrath, Prints, Melbourne: Deutscher Galleries 1979 (Exhibition catalogue, Catalogue Raisonne)

1978

Roger Butler and Charles Nodrum, Jean Sutherland, Melbourne: Deutscher Galleries, 1978 (Exhibition catalogue, Catalogue Raisonne)

Roger Butler, Christian Waller, 1895-1956, Melbourne: Deutscher Galleries, 1978 (Exhibition catalogue, Catalogue Raisonne)

Roger Butler and Chris Deutscher, A survey of Australian relief prints, Melbourne: Deutscher Galleries, 1978. (Exhibition catalogue)

Roger Butler, Hall Thorpe, Roy Davies, Melbourne: Deutscher Galleries, 1978. (Exhibition catalogue)