Item #108964 Augustus Short, First Bishop of Adelaide. A Chapter of Colonial Church History. Frederick Taylor WHITINGTON.
Augustus Short, First Bishop of Adelaide. A Chapter of Colonial Church History
Augustus Short, First Bishop of Adelaide. A Chapter of Colonial Church History

Augustus Short, First Bishop of Adelaide. A Chapter of Colonial Church History

Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1887 [this Adelaide edition is the first edition].

Octavo, xxiv, 301, [2] (blank, colophon) pages plus a Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of Bishop Short (image size 145 × 98 mm, mounted on card printed with his facsimile signature).

Gilt-pictorial cloth a little flecked, marked, bumped and rubbed; four-digit number written in ink along the spine, with a small inkspot near a nick to the rear cover; two contemporary Magill Institute stamps on early blank pages (one with a cancellation stamp); trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy.

A London edition of this book was published in 1888, with pages ix-304 (from the table of contents onwards) being the sheets of this Adelaide edition. The first eight pages, the cloth colour, lettering and decoration differ, and it invariably contains the Woodburytype frontispiece portrait. The Woodburytype is derived from the original albumen paper photograph occasionally (but not invariably) found as the frontispiece in the Adelaide edition. Ferguson 18499 (not noting the last point). Provenance: Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46, with his pencilled ownership signature and note ('Purchased at Coles Secondhand Department on 3rd February 1925').

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