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'Johnny Fawkner's Press' sonnet
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Record title
'Johnny Fawkner's Press' sonnet
Call numbers
MLMSS 11413
Record identifier
16AXKzdn
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'Johnny Fawkner's Press' sonnet
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'Johnny Fawkner's Press' sonnet
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Date
1943-1944
Call Numbers
MLMSS 11413
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Contents
0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder)
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
Comprises a framed, calligraphed sonnet ‘Johnny Fawkner’s Press’, followed by a short description about John Pascoe Fawkner and his printing press. At the bottom is written ‘Inscribed by A.R. Turnbull, 1943’ and ‘To The Right Honorable Sir Isaac A. Isaacs, P.C., G.C.B, G.C.M.G., K.C. and Lady Isaacs’.
Verso contains the notes ‘With Complimen...
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'Johnny Fawkner's Press' sonnet
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Administrative / Biographical history
The sonnet ‘Johnny Fawkner’s Press’ first appeared in the Australasian Printers’ Keepsake (1885) and was reprinted on the Fawkner press by A.R. Turnbull in 1942 for the Fawkner Sesquicentenary.
REFERENCE:
‘The Fawkner Printing Press: a provenance study’, La Trobe Journal, No 57 Autumn 1996, p. 23.
http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-57/t1-g-t2.html...
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 11413
Record Identifier
16AXKzdn
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https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AXKzdn
— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
9627377
