A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand
Contents
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Contents
Preface Dennis McEldowney | vii |
Māori and the book | |
1 Māori oral tradition meets the book Jane McRae | 1 |
2 Aversion to print? Māori resistance to the written word Danny Keenan | 17 |
Books as artefacts | |
3 Tampering with the sacred text: The second edition of the Māori Bible Peter Lineham | 29 |
4 Sir George Grey and his book collecting activities in New Zealand Donald Kerr | 46 |
5 Leaves and flowers of gold: The art and craft of Eleanor Joachim, 1903-1914 Margery Blackman | 68 |
6 Conserving The East India pilot Jocelyn Cuming | 78 |
Authors & publishers | |
7 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 | 85 |
8 'Not easily put on paper': Robin Hyde's The godwits fly Patrick Sandbrook | 118 |
Typography & printers | |
9 Typography & the great New Zealand pop-up poetry canon Alan Loney | 131 |
10 'Mulgan, Marris, Schroder': Repudiating the literary establishment Lawrence Jones | 143 |
11 Bob Lowry and the Pelorus Press, 1945-53 Peter Hughes | 167 |
12 The Byron of Burnside and the Nag's Head Press Noel Waite | 188 |
Reading —past & present | |
13 Reading art, looking at books, watching screens: Learning to read in a 15th-century prayer book, learning to read today Elizabeth Eastmond | 202 |
14 Up the garden path: Janet and John revisited Anne Else | 224 |
The New Zealand book in history | |
15 Printing in colonial New Zealand: An insular history? Roderick Cave | 235 |
Contributors | 247 |
Index | 250 |