Bound for the goldfields : a true account of a journey from Melbourne to Castlemaine / by a carrier of supplies to the goldfields; designed and illustrated with cuts by Mike Hudson
- Bib ID:
- 303449
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Katoomba [N.S.W.] : Wayzgoose Press, 1990
- 1 v. : ill. ; 25 x 29 cm.
- Notes:
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- "First published by Charles Dickens in his weekly journal Household Words of June 2nd. 1855."
- "This edition of 55 signed and numbered copies was hand set by Jadwiga Jarvis in 14 point Monotype Baskerville. Linocuts and wood engravings are by Mike Hudson who also designed and bound the edition. The whole was printed on a Western Proof Press by Mike Hudson and Jadwiga Jarvis using Mohawk Letterpress paper (118 gsm)"--Colophon.
- "Nos. 1-4 are designer-bound and enclosed in a wooden box for private collections. Nos. 5-50 are hard-bound in printed hessian and tied with leather thongs. Nos. 51-55 are in sheets for individual binders."--Colophon.
- A fine press book which comprises a text by an anonymous author, printed on a continuous strip, occasionally folded across lines of text, accompanied by continuous illustration; read from top to bottom (as in a folded scroll), while viewed horizontally it presents a panoramic bush landscape 9 metres long, in an accordion folded format.
- Signed by illustrator.
- National Library of Australia SRef copy is no. 9. in the designer-bound in wooden box. The inside cover of lid states: This volume was bound by Mike Hudson for the private collection of Jacqueline Craig. It includes the bound vol. wrapped in printed hessian. The wooden box is made of pine stained deep yellow. The box comes with a lock and two sets of luggage labels with leather strips to secure the box and its contents. The hard bound vol. is no.53 signed by Hudson and Jarvis.
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2091 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2021
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1990
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