The development of printing in nineteenth-century Ballarat

Stephen J. Herrin
Melbourne, Vic. : Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2000

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Book description

The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand's Silver Jubilee Prize winner, Herrin's study of printing in colonial Ballarat - the capital of the Victorian goldfields - is a groundbreaking work. Herrin weaves the various elements early printing, technological change and innovation, the social and political history, industrial relations, jobbing printing, newspaper publishing, lithography and engraving - into a concise and readable history of printing in Ballarat a region of immense importance to the development of Australia's national identity. Includes a comprehensive checklist of works published in nineteenth-century Ballarat. [Publisher's website]

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Stephen Herrin is a member of the Arts Faculty at Monash University.

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