Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
A book in the hand : essays on the history of the book in New Zealand
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Auckland University Press
Place
Date
2000
Physical Description
xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
1869402316
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Maori and the book
Maori oral tradition meets the book / Jane McRae
Aversion to print? Maori resistance to the written word / Danny Keenan) Books as artefacts
Tampering with the sacred text : the second edition of the Maori Bible
/ Peter Lineham
Sir George Grey and his book collecting activities in New Zealand / Donald Kerr
Leaves and flowers of gold : the art and craft of Eleanor Joachim, 1903-1914 / Margery Blackman
Conserving The East India pilot / Jocelyn Cumming
Authors & publishers
Attila of the Antipodes ; or, The Mad Hatter's tea-party : the publishing history of Edith Lyttleton (G.B. Lancaster) in the 1930s / Terry Sturm
'Not easily put on paper' : Robin Hyde's The godwits fly / Patrick Sandbrook
Typography & printers
Typography & the great New Zealand pop-up poetry canon / Alan Loney
'Mulgan, Marris, Schroder' : repudiating the literary establishment / Lawrence Jones
Bob Lowry and the Pelorus Press, 1945-53 / Peter Hughes
The Byron of Burnside and the Nag's Head Press / Noel Waite
Reading -- past & present
Reading art, looking at books, watching screens : learning to read in a 15th-century prayer book ; learning to read today / Elizabeth Eastmond
Up the garden path : Janet and John revisited / Anne Else
The New Zealand book in history (Printing in colonial New Zealand : an insular story? / Roderick Cave).
Public Access Text
Essays ... selected from papers presented to a conference on the history of the book in New Zealand held in Auckland in 1995--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Associated Notes
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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