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A book in the hand : essays on the history of the book in New Zealand

documentary heritage
  • Place
  • Other Id

    Z8.N45 BOO (Library of Congress Call Number)

    28095 (Cat ID)

    31183 (DBTextworks system ID)

    20103 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

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

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • 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

    http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-GriHand.html

    Full text available online through NZETC.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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