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An Epistle from Oberea

Screen printmaker: Ray Crooke
Letterpress printer: R. G. Edwards
Categories: Bookwork / Illustrated Books, Letterpress Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works, Serigraph Print Books, Small Press Books

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Reference no.:H/L/Cro.R/1955 Place/Shelf:4sthCL

Book title: An Epistle from Oberea
Published by: The Rams Skull Press
Year made: 1955
Place made: Australia/Thursday Island
Original: Yes
Edition:
(No. in Edition)
250
(73)
Dimensions: 205 x 290
Binder: binder unknown
Physical description: hard cover case binding
Medium: text, Illustrations
Further information:
The title page of the fourth edition from 1774 is reproduced in this edition, the fifth edition of 1955. It reads:

"An Epistle from Oberea, Queen of Otaheite to Joseph Banks Esq. Translated by T.Q.Z. Esq. Professor of the OTAHEITE Language in Dublin, and of all the languages of the undiscovered Islands of the SOUTH SEA; And enriched with HISTORICAL and EXPLANATORY NOTES. The FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed for J. ALMON, opposite BURLINGTON HOUSE, in PICCADILLY. MDCCLXXIV [Price One Shilling]"

Screen printmaker: Ray Crooke
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Letterpress printer: R. G. Edwards
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