Early Victorian Life
[Melbourne, George Robertson & Co., circa 1890s].
Oblong duodecimo, a leporello comprising 12 postcard-size chromolithographs.
Original blue pebble-grain cloth bordered in blind and lettered in gilt on the front cover, but lacking the original ribbon ties; covers lightly worn, mottled and marked; in very good condition (internally fine).
A scarce souvenir of rural Victoria at the end of the nineteenth century. The chromolithographs include 'Natives spearing Kangaroo', 'Alluvial Diggers', 'A Stampede', 'Yarding Cattle', 'Old Man Kangaroo at Bay', and 'A Buck Jumper'. The last one is curious - and inaccurate - to a fault; it depicts a rustic homestead and a couple of outbuildings, surrounded by post-and-railing fences, with the caption: 'Innamincka, Coopers Creek. Where Bourke [sic] the Explorer died'. Arthur Esam (1850-1934) looks good for the artwork.
Item #109021
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