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Turnbull Library Record, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1 August 1970, Cover Page

FURTHER PUBLICATIONS

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Two new sets of greeting cards, reproduced from prints in the Library, have now been issued bv The Friends of the Turnbull Library. From aquatints by John Webber and after John Cleveley, respectively: Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound, February 1777 and The Death of Captain Cook, February 1779. Both cards are in colour, approximately 6 x 7| ins, and sell at 25 cents each. Six engravings from the copper-plates in the British Museum (Natural History) made from watercolours prepared for Banks from Parkinson's sketches on Cook's first voyage. The subjects are: Kaka-beak, Koromiko, Convolvulus, Native Iris, Dandelion, and Tree Fuchsia. In black and white; the cards are 10 cents each.

THE FRIENDS OF THE TURNBULL LIBRARY

The Society known as the Friends of the Turnbull Library was established in 1939. The objects of the Society are to promote interest in the Alexander Turnbull Library, to assist in the extension of its collections, and to be a means of interchange of information relating to English literature, to the history, literature, and art of New Zealand and the Pacific, and to all matters of interest to book-lovers. The Society carries out its objects chiefly by means of periodic meetings and the production of publications, of which the Turnbull Library Record is the main one. Correspondence and enquiries regarding membership should be addressed to the Secretary, The Friends of the Turnbull Library, Alexander Turnbull Library, Box 8016. Wellington.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS FROM THE ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY

Published for the Library by the Government Printer: McCORMICK, E. H. Tasman and New Zealand: a bibliographical study. (Bulletin number 14) 1959. 72p, plates 75 c. MARKHAM, Edward New Zealand or Recollections of It, edited with an introduction by E. H. McCormick. (Monograph series, number 1) 1963. ii4p illus. (some plates in colour) $3.00.

BEST, A. D. W. The Journal Ensign Best, 1837-1843, edited with an introduction and notes by Nancy M. Taylor. (Monograph series, number 2) 1966. 465 P plates (col. frontis.) $3.50. Published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board:

The FOX PRINTS and the FOX PORTFOLIO Three reproductions in colour of watercolours by Sir William Fox, two being in the Nelson area and one of Otaraia Pa on the Ruamahanga. Coloured surface of each, approximately 9 x 12 ins. $2.00 each, with descriptive leaflet. ALSO six other prints - Kaiteriteri; Lake Rotoroa: Tiraumea river; Tuakau; Hokitika; Pohaturoa rock - with a brochure by Dr E. H. McCormick. Edition of 2,000. Portfolio 14! x iB~ ins. Sold as a set of at $lO or singly at 3$ each.

The BARRAUD PRINTS 1967: Wellington 1861; Lake Papaitonga, Horowhenua; The Barracks, Napier. Coloured surface, approximately iox 15 ins. $2.00 each, with notes.

The EMILY HARRIS PRINTS New Zealand flower paintings Rangiora, Blueberry, Mountain cabbage-tree, Coloured surfaces, approximately 18 x 12 ins. Edition of 2,500. $2.00 each, with notes; set of 3, in illustrated folder, $6.00.

MAPLES TONE PRINTS Hawkestone Street, Wellington; New Plymouth; Scene near Stoke Nelson. All 1849. Format and price as for Emily Harris prints. Published by the Friends of the Turnbull Library: Captain James Cook’s chart of New Zealand (1769-70), reproduced from the original in the British Museum by courtesy of the Trustees. Approximately 14 xl4 ins. Price 20c. Offprints of the articles on S. C. Brecs in November 1968 Turnbull Library Record available 25c. (See also inside back cover)

Set in ‘Monotype' io pt and 12 pt Bembo and printed by the Pelorus Press Ltd. Auckland, New Zealand