The albumen paper photograph (94 × 61 mm) is mounted on the printed card (104 × 63 mm) of The Adelaide Photographic Company. There is an example of the same image in the State Library of NSW (a gift from a family member, John Howard Johnson); it is dated January..... More
It is based on one of the (variant) frontispiece portraits used in Edwin Hodder's 1891 biography, 'George Fife Angas. Father and Founder of South Australia'; we have identified different images and reproduction processes for this frontispiece. This portrait is based on a photograph, but whether it was done from an..... More
Adelaide, 1838 and 1839. George Fife Angas's personal copies of three early issues of South Australia's second newspaper, with his name and London address in ink at the head of the first page of each issue. These details are not in his hand; as the newspapers were posted to him..... More
London, Jackson, Walford and Hodder, 1862. With the ownership signature of George Fife Angas (in full) in pencil on the verso of the flyleaf. George Fife Angas (1789-1879), South Australian pioneer: although his 'prominence in the foundation of South Australia has been somewhat exaggerated ... he deserves full credit for..... More
London, Shaw, 1852 (fifth edition)/ 1847. Provenance: George Fife Angas, with his ownership signature ('G.F. Angas') in pencil at the head of the title page. The book has the (later) inkstamp of 'Herbert Angas Parsons, Solicitor, Adelaide' on the front endpaper; the name of George Fife Angas in pencil on..... More
London, George Philip and Son, 1860. 'George Fife Angas' is written in pencil on the front endpaper; we know this to be in a later secretarial hand, indicating that the book came originally from his personal library. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. There are light pencil check marks in the margins of about fifteen leaves, with corrigenda or addenda on four pages (in ink on one of them). More
London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' (from 1855 to 1864); he was also George Fife Angas's agent and attorney in SA from 1841 to 1844. This copy comes from the collection of George Fife Angas himself; the flyleaf..... More
London, John Richards & Co., 1841 ('Third edition, revised and corrected to the present time'). Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context, the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of..... More
