Journal kept in New Zealand in 1820 / by Alexander McCrae ; together with relevant documents edited by Sir Frederick Revans Chapman ; with notes by Johannes C. Andersen

Like the Dominion Museum monograph series, the Alexander Turnbull Library Bulletin foregrounded the Government Printing Office's mandate to publish works on a broad range of New Zealand subjects of interest to the general public. Reissuing out-of-print historical works, printing significant hitherto unpublished manuscript material, compiling catalogues and bibliographies, and publishing scholarly papers filled an important niche and increasingly enabled historical research to be undertaken. Danish-born Johannes Andersen, who arrived on the ship Gutenberg in 1874, was inaugural Turnbull Librarian and particularly keen to promote New Zealand as well as the justly-famous collection. Anderson later contributed to A History of Printing in New Zealand 1830-1940 and remained a prolific, if now contentious, writer on Maori culture.