Love Brought to Book: A Bio-Bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels

Publisher
National Centre for Australian Studies
Location
Melbourne
Publication year
1995
Comment

More details about the book can be found in an article by Flesch published in Australian Academic & Research Libraries (1996) which is linked to elsewhere in the database, but which I'll also link to directly here. In it Flesch writes that:

Love Brought to Book was published in May 1995. It is intrinsically no more or less entertaining than any other bibliography. It contains the usual list of authors, the titles of their books, the imprint details of place, publisher and date. There is a small amount of biographical information provided for many of the authors. There are three introductory essays and a few illustrations, taken from the dust-jackets of the books listed. It contains one of the most unfortunate (albeit hilarious) misprints I have seen for a while and is, in my opinion, quite nicely set out.

It does not, as many bibliographies seek to do, list all editions of all the works listed and it does not even list all editions in English. It does not purport to be a list of first editions, either. What is listed is simply the first edition of each title to come to my attention, whether this was an American edition, an English one, a reprint or the first impression. To have done otherwise would have stretched the list enormously, since many of the authors listed are published in a couple of dozen languages, in several English-language editions and reprinted many times over. My failure to list all these variations is not without bibliographical importance, if only because the cover artwork is very different from edition to edition and from publisher to publisher. There may also be textual differences between the American and the English editions. (182)

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