Book, Round About New Zealand
Maker
Payton, E W
Chapman & Hall, Ltd
Production date
1888
Object detail
Brief Description
Book by E W Payton entitled: Round About New Zealand, Being Notes from a Journal of Three Years Wanderings in the Antipodes. Dated 1888.
Contents include a tour through the colony of New Zealand with chapters on labour, sport and social life. Includes Payton's impressions of Napier. The book originally contained a map as well as a portrait of Rewi Maniapoto (which has been removed). There is a very good description of the Tarawera eruption three days after it had occurred.
Contents include a tour through the colony of New Zealand with chapters on labour, sport and social life. Includes Payton's impressions of Napier. The book originally contained a map as well as a portrait of Rewi Maniapoto (which has been removed). There is a very good description of the Tarawera eruption three days after it had occurred.
Collection
Production date
1888
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Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Blue green linen hard cover; gold embossed printing on the spine and front cover; on the front cover is a gold embossed painters palette and a quill; printed on paper with black ink. Stapled. Map and plates attached.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 210 x 155mm
Signature/Inscription
Ko te Matauranga te Kaha Russell Duncan, Bookplate, Printed
Hawkes Bay Art Society, Bookplate, Printed
A stamp of two opposing arrows taken from Russell Duncan's bookplate, Bookplate, Stamp
Hawkes Bay Art Society, Bookplate, Printed
A stamp of two opposing arrows taken from Russell Duncan's bookplate, Bookplate, Stamp
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Subject period
Subject date
1888
Credit line
from the Russell Duncan Collection
Other number(s)
919.31 Pay, 141, 49840
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