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A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand

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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
Readingpast & 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