Guide to the ANGUS & ROBERTSON ARCHIVES in the Mitchell Library [Sydney, Australia],

State Library of NSW, Sydney, New South Wales - 1990 Softcover, 21cms x 29½cms (8¼" x 11½") Archive Guide in GOOD condition Mitchell Library Manuscripts Guides, No. 13. ANGUS & ROBERTSON began business as a Sydney bookseller in 1884 and rose to become the nation's largest bookseller, printer and publisher. The company has headed by George Robertson, a Scot, who assembled the company's publishing records, annotating some documents, into this collection dated to 1933. Correspondence, mss, photographs and publishing papers - included those with Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, C J Dennis, May Gibbs, Mary Gilmore, Norman Lindsay and Ethel Turner (plus 50 others) - form the archive topics detailed in this Guide. A short history of the company to 1989, when publishing activities were merged with William Collins, is also included.