WORSNOP, Thomas

Are the City Park Lands Waste Lands of the Crown? The Town Clerk's Report on City Park Lands [drop title]

Adelaide, R.K. Thomas, Printer [for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide], [July 1879].

Octavo, 16 pages (last blank).

Contemporary half calf and marbled papered boards with a black leather title-label (heavily ruled and lettered in gilt) on the front cover; leather a little rubbed and slightly worn at the extremities; a small section of marbled paper has been abraded from the front cover; some offsetting to the endpapers from the leather turn-ins; a very good copy (internally fine).

Ferguson 18880 (calling for blue paper covers). Bound with [CONIGRAVE, John Fairfax]: The City of Adelaide. Historical Sketch of the Municipality, &c. Reprinted, after Revision, from 'The South Australian Advertiser' and 'Weekly Chronicle and Mail' Newspapers. Adelaide, Printed at the Office of the 'South Australian Advertiser', 1871. Octavo, 39, [1] (colophon) pages. Ferguson 8589 (calling for pink wrappers). Both pamphlets in this instance are interleaved with blank leaves. Thomas Worsnop, Town Clerk of Adelaide (1869-1898), the author of the first pamphlet, is acknowledged on the verso of the title page of the second item as a significant contributor to its compilation. These may well be his personal copies. At the head of the first item, he has written a lengthy note (exceeding 30 words) providing additional references relating to the Adelaide Park Lands. On the blank page facing page 9, he has pencilled in a lengthy comment on his reliance on a document contemporary with the controversial purchase of the Park Lands, noting that it is 'worth a cart-load of personal recollections'. Provenance: possibly Thomas Worsnop; later, although not identified as such, from the collection of Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46.

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