Sub-fonds 7: Mother Goose Rhymes Censored, dummy book with cover illustration by Norman Lindsay, [ca...
Sub-fonds 7: Mother Goose Rhymes Censored, dummy book with cover illustration by Norman Lindsay, [ca. 1930]
About this item
Full title
Date
[ca. 1930]
Call Numbers
MLMSS 10397
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Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts, Pictures and Drawings
Physical Description
Contents
0.26 metres of textual material (1 box)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright restrictions may apply
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Mother Goose Rhymes Censored, being a dummy book (20 x 14 cm) with watercolour and pencil cover illustration and title by Norman Lindsay. The book comprises 30 leaves, typed on one side only, bound in boards with a cloth spine.
The cover illustration depicts a woman with an elongated neck, wearing a cap, her hand raised to her mouth with a...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Sub-fonds 7: Mother Goose Rhymes Censored, dummy book with cover illustration by Norman Lindsay, [ca. 1930]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
Date note
Date based on publication of Kendall Banning’s Mother Goose Rhymes Censored and the banning of Lindsay’s novels Redheap (1930) and The Cautious Amorist (1932) from entry to Australia by the Commonwealth Department of Customs and Trade.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Sydney Rare Book Auctions, 29 June 2019, Lot 184
Administrative / Biographical history
During the first decades of the twentieth century, the British monopoly control over the Australian book market meant that many Australian writers were first published in the United Kingdom. In the 1930s, five of Lindsay’s adult novels were published overseas, in New York and London – of these Redheap (1930) and The Cautious Amorist (1932) were ban...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 10397
Record Identifier
9arW5X7n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9arW5X7n
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9640654
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