Item #100826 George Canning. A Contemporary Tribute to Him, from a Manuscript now in the Queensland University Library and Archives [cover title]. Shapcott Press.
George Canning. A Contemporary Tribute to Him, from a Manuscript now in the Queensland University Library and Archives [cover title]

George Canning. A Contemporary Tribute to Him, from a Manuscript now in the Queensland University Library and Archives [cover title]

Brisbane, The Shapcott Press, May 1963.

Tall octavo, [12] pages including the title-cover.

Card covers (with the title in red on the front panel) unevenly sunned; minor crease to two corners throughout; an excellent copy, uncut and unopened.

The lengthy colophon on the verso of the rear cover states that the item 'was wholly set by hand by Harrison Bryan & Brian Donaghey and printed with the assistance of the English Honours students in the University of Queensland'. Loosely inserted is a mimeographed letter signed by Brian Donaghey to Noel Stockdale at the ANU (16 May 1963), concerning this 'first substantial production from the Shapcott Press'.

Item #100826

Price (AUD): $125.00

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