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Reading in Colonial Tasmania : the early years of the Evandale Subscription Library.

By: ADKINS, Keith.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Ancora Press, Monash University: 2011

Seller ID: 28984

Large 8vo. 276pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Blue cloth with coloured dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0732624223 ***The Evandale Subscription Library was founded in 1847 by the Presbyterian Reverend Robert Russell. It was a practical expression of his faith and of the ideals of the Scottish Enlightenment, promoting the ideals of education, science, civic-mindedness and sobriety. The Library's manuscript catalogue of books and loans has survived, enabling the author to examine not only what books and periodicals were held in the collection but who it was that donated and/or borrowed...
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To Serve in a Distant Land : Bishop Francis Russell Nixon and Anna Maria Nixon, the Tasmanian years 1843–1863

By: ADKINS, Keith.

Price: $54.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 2020

Seller ID: 36047

Published in an edition of 500 copies. 8vo. xvi, 222pp; well illustrated in colour and b&w. Blue buckram with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 090852837X ***The Tasmanian years of the first Anglican Bishop, Francis Russell Nixon (1842-63), and his wife Anna Maria Woodcock. The study concerns not only the Bishop’s role as the colony’s leading churchman, but the couple’s personal stories, and especially their under-acknowledged contribution to colonial art. The book’s numerous illustrations include over forty of their own works, brought together for the first time. ***N.B. this is a...
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Author:ADKINS, Keith

Reading in Colonial Tasmania : the early years of the Evandale Subscription Library.

To Serve in a Distant Land : Bishop Francis Russell Nixon and Anna Maria Nixon, the Tasmanian years 1843–1863