80727 Adelaide, Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision'), 1885. Octavo, viii, 288, [24, advertisements] pages plus 17 lithographs. Gilt-decorated dark green stippled cloth; tiny ball-point crosses next to 12 names in the index; a fine copy with the contemporary ownership details of Alfred Dawkins, Adelaide, 1890 on the flyleaf. The lithographs are a delightful frontispiece view of Glenelg in 1837 after John Michael Skipper, 15 full-page portraits and a plate containing the portraits of Cotton, Watsford and Waterhouse. The latter is the last plate in the book; this plate is normally an albumen paper photograph of Loyau, but it was clearly never present in this copy. Dawkins' 1890 date raises the possibility that copies sold sometime after the publication date were issued without any photographs. We have identified numerous variants in the plate content. Ferguson 11748 (recording only the frontispiece, with 14 pages of advertisements); Holden 71 (photographically-illustrated copies). $200.00AUD
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