Headpieces & fairy tales : Wellington's Lyon & Blair, fl 1874-1894 : an annotated bibliography

Abstract

Lyon & Blair, booksellers, stationers, printers and publishers, flourished in Wellington in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In that time they published some of the most significant and enduring works published in New Zealand. While the pioneers of printing in early Wellington have been given reasonable coverage by researchers, Lyon & Blair has not. The firm, with direct links to the pioneers, more properly belonged to the second phase of New Zealand's early history, a period of consolidation. Headpieces & Fairy Tales provides an annotated bibliography of the firm's published work and, in so doing, produces the record of a worthy successor to the pioneers of print in this country, at a time of significant historic change.