This issue features articles on the history and restoration of the Library's Shakespeare Window; the 'curious career' of elocutionist, bookseller and spiritualist Benjamin Suggitt Taylor; a profile of Kurt Offenburg, German-born ABC broadcaster and journalist; and more.
List of contents
- From the Editorial Chair
- Charlwood & Son, Printers and Booksellers: Some Family Notes by Don Charlwood
- Life Before and After Bookselling: The Curious Career of Benjamin Suggitt Nayler by Wallace Kirsop
- Arthur Greening, Publisher of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Cecily Close
- 'Dedicated to the Promotion of International Understanding': A Memorial for Kurt Offenburg at the State Library by Walter Struve
- Casting the Spell: Magic in Books by Lyn Gallacher
- Hugh McCrae as Comic Illustrator by Vane Lindesay
- 'That window has a history': The Shakespeare Window at the State Library by Mimi Colligan
- Conservation of the Shakespeare Window by Geoffrey Wallace
Feature article
The State Library of Victoria owns one of the earliest stained-glass windows made in Melbourne, a portrait of Shakespeare, more than three metres high. Mimi Colligan documents the extraordinary history of the window.
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