A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand
Contents
- [Group of Texts]
- Preface — by Dennis McEldowney
- One: Māori oral tradition meets the book — by Jane McRae p. xii
- Two: Aversion to print? Māori resistance to the written word — by Danny Keenan p. 17
- Three: Tampering with the sacred text: The second edition of the Māori Bible — by Peter Lineham p. 27
- Four: Sir George Grey and his book collecting activities in New Zealand — by Donald Kerr p. 46
- Five: Leaves and flowers of gold: The art and craft of Eleanor Joachim, 1903-1914 — by Margery Blackman p. 65
- Six: Conserving The East India pilot — by Jocelyn Cuming
- Seven: Attila of the Antipodes; or, The Mad Hatter's Tea-Party: The publishing history of Edith Lyttleton (G. B. Lancaster) in the 1930s — by Terry Sturm p. 84
- Eight: 'Not easily put on paper': Robin Hyde's The godwits fly — by Patrick Sandbrook p. 115
- Nine: Typography & the great New Zealand pop-up poetry canon — by Alan Loney p. 130
- Ten: 'Mulgan, Marris, Schroder': Repudiating the literary establishment — by Lawrence Jones p. 143
- Eleven: Bob Lowry and the Pelorus Press, 1945-531 — by Peter Hughes p. 163
- Twelve: The Byron of Burnside and the Nag's Head Press — by Noel Waite p. 184
- Thirteen: Reading art, looking at books, watching screens: Learning to read in a 15th-century prayer book, learning to read today — by Elizabeth Eastmond p. 200
- Fourteen: Up the garden path: Janet and John revisited1 — by Anne Else
- Fifteen: Printing in colonial New Zealand: An insular history? — by Roderick Cave p. 233
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- Contributors p. 247
- Index p. 250