Notable South Australians; or, Colonists - Past and Present
Adelaide, Carey, Page & Co., Printers ("Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision"), 1885.
Octavo, viii, 288, [24] (advertisements) pages plus 16 lithographs and a mounted albumen paper photograph (98 × 58 mm).
Original blue cloth (with the title and decorations in gilt on the spine) a little marked, flecked and rubbed at the extremities; a few trifling marks of use and handling to some margins; contemporary gift inscription ('To Mr JP Pearson wishing him a happy New Year from Mr & Mrs JA Duggan') on the verso of the title page, and a much later signature (1965) on the recto of the frontispiece; a very good copy.
The lithographs are a delightful frontispiece view of Glenelg in 1837 after John Michael Skipper, 14 full-page portraits, and a plate containing the portraits of Cotton, Watsford and Waterhouse. The photograph is a head-and-shoulders portrait of Loyau, in profile, looking to the right (with the photographers George and Walton credited on the negative). We have identified numerous variants in the plate content, including the portrait of Loyau. Ferguson 11748 (recording only the frontispiece, with 14 pages of advertisements); Holden 71.
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