General printed material

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Component identifier:
Series 15
Content Summary:

The small amount of printed material in this series includes advertisements for books, and a small collection of papers concerning John Ruskin.

The brochures include Catalogue of selected books and maps on the Colonies, the United States, South America. (London Stanford, 1870); Bernard Halliday's Catalogue of books old and modern (1908-1909), and Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 1872-1892.

The Ruskin material includes George Allen's advertisements dated 1883, 1884, 1907 and 1908, for Ruskin's books, a pocket Catalogue of the works of John Ruskin (New York, Wiley, n.d.) and a brochure headed 'Proposed Ruskin Union' dated 1900.

This series comprises Items 1-35.

Immediate source of acquisition:
Edward Augustus Petherick presented his collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps and pictures relating to Australia and the Pacific to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1909 as the 'Nucleus of an historical museum'. The agreement between Petherick and the Library Committee was formalized by the Petherick Act, which was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1911.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1441032).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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