Item #109459 An Account of the Colony of South Australia prepared for Distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862. Frederick SINNETT.
An Account of the Colony of South Australia prepared for Distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862

An Account of the Colony of South Australia prepared for Distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862

Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1862 [first edition].

Octavo, vi, 99 pages plus a large folding map (740 × 635 mm) supplied from the London edition (see our footnote).

Modern half synthetic cloth and cloth (in fact, it is the same binding used by Austaprint for its 1970s facsimile edition); a few short tears to edges and intersecting folds of the map; minimal light foxing; an excellent copy.

Ferguson 15734 (the original Adelaide printing, issued without the map). This edition is far less common than the London one issued later the same year, with the large map and a four-page catalogue of exhibited products (see Ferguson 15735). We have previously referred to an article in 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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