| Description |
[vi], 148 pages, 31 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The Mitchell Library / Phyllis Mander Jones -- The Commonwealth National Library / Kenneth Binns -- Victorian Historical Collection / C.A. McCallum -- The early Tasmanian press and its writers / E. Morris Miller -- Van Diemen's Land for the collector / Clive Turnbull -- Victoriana / Edward E. Prescott -- Northern Australian history in early books / E.M. Christie -- Survival was their first care / Malcolm Uren -- The blackfellow in books / Charles Barrett -- Some early naturalists in Australia / Gilbert P. Whitley -- My bookshop memories / James R. Tyrrell -- A collector looks at collecting / Travers Borrow -- The bookplate and Australia / R.H. Croll |
| Summary |
Series of bibliographical essays including The blackfellow in books, which covers eighteenth & nineteenth century books only |
| Notes |
Edition limited to 650 copies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
| Event |
[1948] |
| Subject |
Australian literature -- Bibliography.
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Rare books -- Australia.
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Books -- Australia -- History.
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Books -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Bibliography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001362
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| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies.
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| Author |
Barrett, Charles, 1879-1959.
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