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Turnbull Library Record, Volume 5, Issue 1, 1 May 1972, Cover Page

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 interchanging 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.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY

FREE ON REQUEST An illustrated catalogue of the prints, books and catalogues published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust and of the greeting cards and colour transparencies published by the Friends of the Turnbull Library. SHARP, Andrew (ed.) Duperrey’s Visit to New Zealand in 1824. (Alexander Turnbull Library monograph, no. 3. The H. B. Fleck Memorial Fund.) 1971. 125 p., 6 plates, 2 maps. $4.75 in N.Z. (Price to Friends, $4.25.) WAKEFIELD, E. J. The London Journal of Edward Jerningham Wakefield, 1845-6, edited by Professor Joan Stevens from the MS in the Library. (Alexander Turnbull Library monograph, no. 4. The H. B. Fleck Memorial Fund.) To be published July 1972. 200 p. Price to be announced. The publications below are available to Friends of the Turnbull Library at a 10% discount

McCORMICK, E. H. Tasman and New Zealand: a bibliographical study. (Bulletin no. 14) 1959. 72p., plates. 75 cents. MARKHAM, Edward New Zealand or Recollections of It, edited with an introduction by Dr E. H. McCormick. 1963. 114 p., illus. (some plates in colour). $3.00. BEST, A. D. W. -- The Journal of Ensign Best, 1837-1843, edited by Nancy M. Taylor. 1966. 465 p., plates. $3.50.

THE TURNBULL LIBRARY PRINTS

The Mein Smith Prints (to be published August 1972). Five watercolours, issued as three prints, by Captain William Mein Smith, first Surveyor-General to the N.Z. Coy. Fort Richmond and the second Hutt Bridge, ca. 1847 with Upper Hutt River, near Taita, 1851; A Bush Road Scene; Cliffs at Whatarangi, Palliser Bay, with Scene in Wairarapa, 1853. Coloured surface approximately 7 x 10 ins. Edition of 2,500, with illustrated descriptive text-sheet. $2.00 each; or $lO the set of 3 in folder illustrated in colour with the Thorndon and Te Aro portions of the 3-part 1842 Wellington panorama engraving after Mein Smith in Illustrations to Jerningham Wakefield’s ‘Adventure in New Zealand’ (similar to the Heaphy views). Note: Stocks are exhausted of The Queen’s Prints (Heaphy’s Thorndon, Te Aro and Nelson views) ; The Heaphy 1964 Prints (Hokianga, Egmont and Chatham Islands) ; The Barraud Wellington 1861 view; and the Jubilee Print of von Tempsky’s watercolour of the attack on Te Purahi Pa.

Prints still available are: The Fox Prints The Fox Portfolio text-sheet and brochure by Dr E. H. McCormick, in folder illustrated in colour. The Barraud Prints —2 at $2.00 each, or sold as a pair with descriptive leaflet in folder illustrated in black and white with Barraud’s view of Wellington, 1861 (the third colour print, now sold out). Stocks limited. The Emily Harris N.Z. Flower Prints The Maplestone Prints The Cyprian Bridge Prints —2 at $2.00 each; the pair in illustrated folder. Prints of the Thermal Region trated in colour. The paintings are by C. D. Barraud and Charles Blomfield. Around the World with William Fox: catalogue of the 173 paintings from the Wilkie Loan Collection of Watercolours by Sir William Fox and from the Library’s holdings, exhibited at the N.Z. Academy of Fine Arts, February-March 1972. 12p. illus. 20 cents nett. ALL THE ABOVE PUBLICATIONS MAY OBTAINED FROM THE ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY, BOX 8016, WELLINGTON.

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