"In the hundred years from 1860 to 1960 many school text books were issued by New Zealand book publishers, but most were omitted from G. C. Bagnall's 5 volume "New Zealand National Bibliography to the year 1960". Very few school textbooks have been preserved by New Zealand research libraries or museums. For ten years Hugh Price collected New Zealand published school textbooks (1860-1960) and his collection is at the heart of this bibliography. This list shows an astonishing number of titles ... The bibliography will be useful to students of the history of New Zealand education, and of New Zealand publishing, printing and writing. It answers such questions as "What grammar books were published in nineteenth century New Zealand, and where can copies be found?". Who wrote the "Progressive readers", so widely used in the 1930s and 1940s? Were any New Zealand text books exported before 1960? Where can examples of arithmetical problems that so dominated the school lives of past generations, be found?" -- Back cover.