New Zealand in Review: an illustrated digest of interesting information, historical, geographical and otherwise, relating to New Zealand / compiled and illustrated by James Berry.

British-born James Berry (1906-1979) emigrated to New Zealand in 1925 and spent the rest of his life as an internationally renowned and honoured commercial artist, stamp, coin and medal designer, and landscape painter. He worked in a number of advertising firms in Wellington before going freelance and spent seven years as staff artist with The Dominion newspaper. For the 1940 centennial celebrations, he produced this historical booklet which went into numerous reprints. Later he had a highly successful career as the designer of some of New Zealand's most famous stamps, coins and medals. Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, illustrated here, was a seminal figure in the development of New Zealand's book landscape. In 1918, he gifted to the nation his substantial private collection of Pacific exploration literature, Milton, first edition fine-press books, and New Zealand printing and publishing. It formed the nucleus of the Alexander Turnbull Library, now a research centre in the heart of the National Library of New Zealand.

Further reading:

• Tye, J. R. 'Berry, Reginald George James 1906 - 1979'. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 11 December 2002 URL: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/
• Rachel Barrowman, The Turnbull. A library and its world. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.