ideas floating around in my mind, involving a severely limited edition on Dutch hand-made paper', and 100 of * The poem was included in Curnow's Sailing or Drowning (1943). John, reviewing the volume in the New Zealand Listener (3 March 1944, p.10), said the poem 'gives exhilaration both to our history and to our literature'. age 290 the 1000 printed were on handmade paper (the Treasury raised no objection to releasing Australian funds up to a limit of 3 to pay for suitable paper, available in Sydney) and a number leather-bound with a gold linear decoration similar to John's design for Making New Zealand . Printed by Whitcombe and Tombs in Christchurch in 14 pt Monotype Aldine Bembo type, the volume was illustrated with coastal views taken mainly from J.E. Heeres 's facsimile edition of the journal. Each section begins with a striking hanging capital letter (printed in red) designed by Janet Wilkinson , who worked closely with John on the volume. * Heenan thought it 'the best bit of book production we have yet achieved', 79 and a recent scholar agreed, calling it 'Heenan and Beaglehole's finest collaboration', 80 though Denis Glover was not impressed at the time: 'I can't honestly say I find that kind of typography is my piece of cake, but there are points on which one may meditate'. 81 The Curnow commission had a further happy outcome. Curnow wrote to John to say that Douglas Lilburn was 'keen on the idea of writing some music