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y separately published work icon Catering for the Empire : Reactions to Macmillan's Colonial Library single work   criticism  
Alternative title: Cheap Books for Colonial Readers.
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Catering for the Empire : Reactions to Macmillan's Colonial Library
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Includes extract from Walch's literary intelligencer, no. 528, Tasmania, July 1886, "Cheap books for colonial readers", including letter from Macmillan's to J. Walch & Sons, dated January 1886, announcing the publication of the first of the series of colonial editions, and a list of the early titles.

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    • Caulfield, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: The Ancora Press, Monash University , 2009 .
      Extent: 16p.
      Limited edition info: Set by hand in Monotype Bembo and printed on a super-royal Albion press in an edition of one hundred and twenty, of which numbers 1-20 are for private circulation.
      ISBN: 9780868620381
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