The platypus story : publisher's dummy mock-up, 1958 / commissioned by Alfred A. Knopf
The platypus story : publisher's dummy mock-up, 1958 / commissioned by Alfred A. Knopf
About this item
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Date
1958
Call Numbers
PXB 475
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Physical Description
Contents
6 drawings (1 album) - 20.6 x 13.9 cm - watercolour, pencil, colour pencil
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Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Hand-made, octavo-sized, and illustrated dummy mock-up for Knopf's 1959 edition, consisting of a dust-jacket, illustrated board, end-paper and pages.
The mock-up copy shows the layout of dedication page, title page, imprint, vignettes and composition of text, with pencil sketches of platypuses and other Australian native animals. The foldin...
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Full title
The platypus story : publisher's dummy mock-up, 1958 / commissioned by Alfred A. Knopf
Notes
Published information
The story of the platypus / by Alfred G. Millotte, illustrated by Helen Damrosch Tee-Van. New York : Knopf, 1959. Helen Damrosch Tee-Van illustrated the published version of this book however in this mock-up copy the illustrator's name is indiscernible
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Hordern House Rare Books, October 2010
Administrative / Biographical history
Alfred G. Milotte (1904-1989) was a nature-film photographer. Along with his wife Elma Milotte he spent two years in Australia in the late 1950s working on wildlife films. The platypus story was set in Tasmania and based on material they compiled during their stay there
References:
The story of the platypus. / by Alfred G. Milotte. New Y...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXB 475
Record Identifier
n88EQvJn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88EQvJn
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Reference code
909676
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