A short history of The Littlewood Press

LITTLEWOOD, Robert C

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Presented to the Monday Forum at the Melbourne Savage Club in the presence of John Arnold Esq. & Dr. Derham Groves. Written & prepared by Robert C. Littlewood. Melbourne: The Littlewood Press, 1 May 1997. Small folio, plain blue wrappers with title label, 22pp., frontispiece portrait photograph of the publisher signed by him, illustrated with an original etching by Pro Hart, linocut bookplates by Edward Heffernan, signed colour linocut by Irena Sibley, portrait photographs of Lionel and Norman Lindsay printed from the original negatives, various prospectuses for publications of The Littlewood Press, and other related ephemera tipped-in. Contains a short essay on The Littlewood Press and its place in the history of Australian private press publishing, and a short bibliography of works published to date. Limited to 40 copies, signed and numbered by the publisher, for private distribution to members of The Savage Club at one of their regular meetings. 

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