Item #102904 Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines. Reverend George TAPLIN.

Grammar of the Narrinyeri Tribe of Australian Aborigines

Adelaide, E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1880/ 1878.

Octavo, 24 pages.

Title-wrappers; minimal expert restoration to the foot of the spine and the rear bottom corner; one leaf slightly marked; essentially a fine copy with a pencilled inscription (1965) at the head of an early page from George Holman, the highly regarded South Australian antique dealer.

First published as a separate pamphlet in 1878, it was reissued in 1879 as an addendum to Taplin's 'The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines'. This edition is the reprint of the following year with reset contents page and variant title page. The latter differs in a number of ways: the recently deceased author is now referred to as 'the late'; the Government Printer is E. Spiller, not W.C. Cox; the date is 1880 and different fonts have been used. Interestingly, we have discovered that both the 1878 and 1880 imprints have been used as addenda to the 1879 book, and it is almost certainly another way of determining the status of the original photographs in that work. Ferguson 16710.

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