'Amanda Scardamaglia’s Printed on Stone focuses on the work of Charles Troedel and Company, a lithographic printing firm established in Melbourne in the mid-nineteenth century. A history based on the archives of a local Australian printer may seem, at first glance, to cater to a very specialist – and perhaps correspondingly small – audience. Yet Scardamaglia’s story of Charles Troedel deserves a wider readership than its subject suggests. Clearly designed to attract the general reader, with its large format, hard cover, and rich collection of images drawn from an extensive archive, Printed on Stone connects that material with wide range of academic approaches, from Scardamaglia’s own specialty, trade mark law, to cultural history.' (Introduction)
