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- ↑ "Building on a Tradition – Auckland's Holloway Press" by William Dart, in Art New Zealand, no. 125 ([southern] Summer 2007/2008)
- ↑ "Private printing" by Noel Waite, in Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa, Victoria University Press, Wellington. ISBN 0-86473-331-3
- ↑ "'Coming full circle': Reviving Private Press Printing at the University of Otago.", thesis (Master of Library Study and Information Studies) by Paula Jane Whitelock, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington (October 2009)
- ↑ The Holloway Press, home page
