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"The first edition of Jonathan Wantrup's 'Australian Rare Books 1788-1900' quickly became the internationally recognised definitive work on collecting rare Australian books of the Colonial Period. Welcoming the book in 1987, Kenneth Hince wrote that the work: . . . at once defines its own scope clearly, and proceeds to cover the ground precisely and accurately. It brings together a mass of material not otherwise available in a single book, and includes an impressive amount of previously unrecorded detail. The perspectives taken of the various subjects are orderly and illuminating . . .This revised and enlarged edition includes five new chapters. It begins with a discussion of the characteristics and techniques of book collecting, followed by a clear description of book manufacture and distribution over the past 200 years. The following chapters offer a comprehensive survey of the major Australian books that illuminate and chronicle our colonial past. Each is placed within its historical context, starting with the foundation years under the First Fleet governors, the era of Bligh and Macquarie, coastal and inland exploration in the century following settlement, and the fine illustrated topographical plate books published throughout the nineteenth century. To close the volume, two new chapters survey the beautiful Australian colourplate natural history books published from the 1790s to the 1890s.Offering a distinctive approach to Australian history and a unique perspective on the development of Australian society, Wantrup has a rare facility for making complicated things simple. Wearing his learning lightly, he writes in an engaging and approachable style that makes this book eminently readable." --Dust jacket gate fold.
Successfully managing rare book collections requires very specific knowledge and skills. This handbook provides that essential information in a single volume. Rare Book Librarianship for the 21st Century is the first new rare books handbook of practice in 25 years. Authored by two special collections experts with extensive field experience, this book is also the first to discuss the role of digital technologies in managing a rare book collection. After a fascinating discussion of the history and current state of rare book libraries, this handbook provides a comprehensive account of the core skills and knowledge needed to be a successful rare book librarian. Topics include best practices for handling, housing, and conserving rare materials; collection development techniques; and user education and outreach. This book will serve as a handbook for practitioners in academic settings, large public libraries, and special libraries, and as a textbook for students in MLIS courses on rare book librarianship and curatorship.
An anthology can be compared to a patchwork quilt, sewn by many hands. Each piece in the patchwork is different: distinctive in texture, shape, pattern, colour. Each piece, separately created, has its own individuality, is self contained, and could exist on its own. You are about to enjoy some of Australia's best stories, poetry and artwork from the likes of: Shaun Tan, Leigh Hobbs, James Roy, Justin D'Ath, Kirsty Murray, Simon Higgins, Gary Crew, Scot Gardner and many others...
All That Swagger has been acclaimed by pundits as one of the best Australian books yet composed. The story develops from the center outwards from one who feels the enchantment of Australia. The characters are established in the dirt, the woodland, as the early pioneers were. One subject anxieties character - that backbone of direction, hardihood boldness, honesty, which should perpetually be the establishment of any stable and moral State or condition of society. It introduces the courageous independence with which the extraordinary Australian landmass has been investigated, studied, fenced, cleared, furrowed, and is presently monitored by a virile people. Here is an immense canvas, State-wide, and as long as history itself - to the extent that it contains the depiction of life and improvement in this station of the British Empire. Aptitude and condition have productively consolidated in the generation. The author moves living pieces on the squares of a mammoth chessboard, and she plays the game such that shows obviously that she comprehends the gambit of life and every one of its varieties. All That Swagger is all Australian in each word. Just an Australian could have composed it.
This annotated and selective bibliography details those old and rare publications, those national treasures, which describe the history, culture and languages of Australia's first inhabitants, the Australian Aborigines. For each publication specific bibliographic data is provided with additional biographical details for each author. A general introductory description of the Australian Aborigine together with time lines of important events and a suggested systematic scheme for classification provides a background to the bibliography. Finally numerous illustrations supplement the text.