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1 Robert Bell’s Eclectic Press Dennis Bryans , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , January vol. 44 no. 1 2020; (p. 27-35) 'Robert Bell's Printing Career

'Robert Bell (1835-1876) departed Liverpool on Sunday 15 June 1862 in the Great Britain, which crossed the equator seventeen days out, during which voyage "the ship ran a record 380 knots in twenty-four hours" and arrived in Hobson's Bay on 14 August 1862 carrying the largest number of passengers (600) to be brought out "in one vessel for several years." Bell was noticed in the Melbourne press in March 1873 as a member of the Royal Society of Victoria, where he delivered a paper on the invention of his Eclectic Press, which, he described to members of the society at the first meeting of the year and which was entered in the exhibition catalogue as "No. 945." His family (wife Sarah, and sons Harcourt, aged four, and Robert, aged one) followed him out a year later, leaving Liverpool in the Southern Ocean, in the middle of May 1863 as unassisted passengers in company with 50 married couples and their children sponsored by the newly-formed Victoria Emigrants' Assistance Society.' (Introduction)
1 English Monotype Down Under Dennis Bryans , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 43 no. 3 2019;
1 Dating D. W. Paterson’s Melbourne Monotype Specimen Dennis Bryans , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 42 no. 3 2018; (p. 174-175) 'At the end of the nineteenth century metal foundry type used for printing books, newspapers and posters was overtaken by automation to the extent that a keyboard operator could compose pages of type and the machine would set and justify the lines without the need for a compositor to set a text by hand.' (Introduction)
1 'A Tolerable Interpreter' : Robert Bell and the Chinese on the Ballarat Goldfields Dennis Bryans , 2013 single work biography
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , December no. 92 2013; (p. 126-143)
1 1 The Trials of Robert Close Dennis Bryans , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 35 no. 4 2011; (p. 197-218) 'In October 1951, the Argus noted that Australia's censorship had "On occasion, when the more modern statutes [were] felt to be inadequate," called "antiquated laws ... into life such as the 'obscene libel' law invoked in the case of Robert Close's novel, Love Me Sailor, and the 'malicious libel' law used ... against Frank Hardy, author, of Power Without Glory'..." At the time Australia's censorship laws were regarded as being among the most narrow minded and repressive imposed by a democratic government anywhere...(Author's introduction)
1 Magazines a Specialty : The Specialty Press and the Commercial Travellers' Association Dennis Bryans , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , vol. 28 no. 3 2004; (p. 4-23) Discusses the publishing history of Australia Today and the Australian Traveller.
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