From Convict Printers to Book Arcades
A History of the Book in Australia Volume I: 1788–1890
$51.08
- Hardcover
540 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2025
Summary
European printing technology arrived in the 1790s on a continent with age-old Indigenous Australian modes of communication. This volume, while acknowledging this prehistory, focuses on the print civilization introduced by the newcomers.
Throughout the nineteenth century, books, magazines, and newspapers were imported in large quantities, primarily from the British Isles. Distribution methods, such as bookshops and libraries, were established in the colonies. As the population grew aft…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780648738541 |
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| ISBN-10: | 064873854X |
| Author: | Wallace Kirsop, Elizabeth Webby, Judy Donnelly |
| Publisher: | Monash University, The Ancora Press |
| Imprint: | Monash University, The Ancora Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 540 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.13kg |
| Dimensions: | 48mm x 379mm x 216mm |
About The Author
Wallace Kirsop
Wallace Kirsop taught French at the University of Sydney and Monash University between 1955 and 1998. From 1968 to 2002 he was editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies. Since the 1960s his research and publications have centred on the book world in ancien régime France and nineteenth-century Australia.
Elizabeth Webby (1942–2023) was for many years Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney and editor of Southerly. Her numerous publications concerned, in particular, books and reading in Australia in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Judy Donnelly trained as a librarian at the University of Toronto, was project manager for A History of the Book in Canada / Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé au Canada and director and co-editor of Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing. In Melbourne, she worked as an archivist/historian and editor before joining the team working on A History of the Book in Australia Volume I.
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