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George Dehane was an early Adelaide printing, publishing, bookselling and stationery firm. The founder, George Dehane, set up business in Stephens Place, Adelaide in the late 1830s. He moved to Port Lincoln where he published the short-lived Port Lincoln Herald from November 1839, then returned to Adelaide around 1841 when he established an office in a mud hut in Morphett Street. From there he moved to 58 King William Street, where he was succeeded after his death in 1864 by printer Samuel Edwards Roberts.

Dehane printed and published a range of newspapers and periodicals, including the Adelaide Magazine (1845) and the Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement (1841), both of which had some literary content. Other significant work included printing the Adelaide Observer 1843-1844; Dehane's Almanac; a verse narrative, and three works on the Aborigines of South Australia.