Item #110037 A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia. Colonel William LIGHT, Thomas GILL.
A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia
A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia
A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia
A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia

A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia

Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, 1911 [enlarged edition].

Octavo, [viii], 108, [vi], 84 pages plus 18 plates, 2 folding maps and 2 folding facsimile documents.

Gilt-pictorial vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut; front panel very lightly discoloured in a few spots; tiny red mark to the head of the spine; small light tidemark to the top and bottom margins of pages 81-86, with light cockling to those areas on nearby leaves and plates; an excellent copy.

Number 6 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Gill. This is a deluxe, enlarged edition of a work first published as the Supplement to Volume 11 of the Proceedings of the RGSSA in the same year. The extra material includes text, maps and facsimile documents. The 'Brief Journal' was reprinted 'verbatim et literatim'; there is a list of errata on page 81. These errors, about 30 in all, have been corrected in pencil in the text. The sharp-eyed reader has found an error in the errata list (see page 35, line 7, re Flinders). Provenance: an initial blank is inscribed to the 'Hon. F.S. Wallis, M.L.C. / Chief Secretary / Adelaide / with the kind regards / of the Compiler'. Tipped in on that page is an autograph letter signed from Thomas Gill to F.S. Wallis (octavo, one page, Adelaide, 5 October 1912), presenting the book to him. He points out that 'For your kind offices as Chief Secretary and the Ministerial Head of the Govt. Printing Office I have made acknowledgement in the preface'. He seems to have been the right man for the latter role, if he picked up the typo above ... On the conjugate blank leaf of the letter there is an inscription in a very shaky hand ('Geo. W. Swann, from Uncle Fred. 18/5/37'), Uncle Fred being presumably the Hon. F.S. Wallis MLC. Loosely inserted is a contemporary leaflet regarding a presentation to Lady Bosanquet.

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