London: The British Library (a co-publication with New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press). 2001. 256pp. ISBN 0 7123 4707 0. £45. John Bewick was the perhaps lesser-known brother of the famous Thomas Bewick (1753 –1828), who is remembered both for his Memoir (first published in 1862) and his superb wood and copper engravings. There are … Continue reading 'John Bewick: Engraver on Wood, 1760–1795: an Appreciation of his Life together with a Catalogue of his Illustrations and Designs.' Nigel Tattersfield.
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New Haven, The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2002 pp125 ISBN 0-8457-3138-6 $50.00. (Distributed by the University Press of New England, 23 S. Main Street. Hannover. New Hampshire. USA) The Beinecke Library at Yale University is one of the world’s great rare book and manuscript libraries. Like most American research libraries it … Continue reading 'America Pictured To The Life. Illustrated Works from the Paul Mellon Bequest.' George A. Miles and William S. Reese.
An Unusual Prospectus for a Nineteenth Century Circumnavigation, Including Australia Probably in the mid-1870s a Liverpool businessman, George Sutherland Dodman, conceived the idea of leading a group of friends and others on a voyage around the world. He must have devoted years to the planning, and in 1879 he released to the public a comprehensive … Continue reading 'A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN 500 DAYS.'
Perhaps of more interest to the collector than the general dictionaries are the dictionaries of Australian slang, colloquialisms and vulgarisms. Those compiled by Sidney Baker and the Macquarie University Dictionary Research Centre have already been mentioned earlier, but this sort of work began much earlier than that, as we saw from James Hardy Vaux’s very … Continue reading AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: A NEGLECTED AREA OF AUSTRALIANA COLLECTING? PART 2