An Account of the Colony of South Australia prepared for Distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862... Together with a Catalogue of all the Products of South Australia exhibited in the South Australian Court of the International Exhibition
London, Robert K. Burt, 1862 [first thus].
Octavo, [iv], 96, 4 (catalogue of products) pages plus a large folding map of South Australia (740 × 635 mm).
Wrappers (with the full title page details repeated within a ruled border on the front cover) a little dusty, creased and very lightly chipped, with a small clear tape repair to the foot of the spine; trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy (and rarely encountered in such agreeable original condition).
Ferguson 15735. The Adelaide printing of the same year did not contain the map or the catalogue of exhibited products (see Ferguson 15734). Loosely inserted is a photocopy of an article from the Adelaide 'Observer' (18 January 1862), which states in part: 'it is intended that the fifty or sixty thousand copies which will be required shall be printed in England after a proof has been struck off at the Government Printing Office in the colony. This plan has been adopted for economy, as the expense of issuing such a work will be much less in England than it would be to do it here, and afterwards send the whole of the issue home'.
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