Australian Poems
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1883.
Duodecimo, [x], 116 pages plus an errata slip.
Cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover, and ruled in blind on both sides; cloth lightly marked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; an excellent copy.
Not least, 'The Wreck of the "Gothenburg" (happened February 24, 1875, on the Great Barrier Reef, not far from Cape Bowling Green ...)' (6 pages). Provenance: J.A. Bagshaw, with his contemporary ownership signature (1884) on the title page. Adelaide-born John Augustus Bagshaw (1838-1920) was the eldest son of John Stokes Bagshaw (1808-1888), the pioneering agricultural machinery manufacturer who won public recognition by building for John Ridley the first harvesting machine. John Augustus 'was also a skilful engineer and inventor; he entered the business at an early age .... Bagshaw left a well-established business to his family' which later became the well-known firm Horwood Bagshaw Ltd ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
Item #17735
Price (AUD):
$200.00