y separately published work icon The Development of the Book Trade in Western Australia: A Study of Reading Habits, Reading Materials, and the Acquisition and Publication of Books in Western Australia, 1829-1879 single work   thesis  
Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 The Development of the Book Trade in Western Australia: A Study of Reading Habits, Reading Materials, and the Acquisition and Publication of Books in Western Australia, 1829-1879
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This study examines the nineteenth-century book trade of Western Australia.

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  • Thesis completed in the School of Library and Information Science, Riverina College of Advanced Education.The study was published in 1989 by Curtin University Library in its Library Series (vol. 10), which may be accessed via the Library and Information Service of Western Australia.

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      New South Wales,: 1984 .
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y separately published work icon The Development of the Book Trade in Western Australia : A Study of Reading Habits, Reading Materials, Libraries and the Acquisition and Publication of Books in Western Australia, 1829-1879 Ingeborg Zoll , Perth : The Library, Curtin University of Technology , 1989 Z1923843 1989 single work criticism '... The books people read, tell you something about the reader's taste, interests, education and social status. Therefore, this study's aims are to investigate the extent of literacy among the early settlers of Western Australia, the kind of reading material at their disposal, the reading habits displayed by them, the means by which they obtained their books and periodicals, as well as what was published in the Colony itself ...' (Foreword)
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Subjects:
  • Western Australia,
  • 1829-1879
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