The Glugs of Gosh
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1917 (first edition).
Octavo, 130, [2] (blank, colophon), [2] (publisher's advertisements) pages with decorated initials and tail-pieces plus a colour frontispiece, an additional colour pictorial title page, 6 full-page line illustrations and 6 full-page colour plates (each with a captioned tissue-guard); all illustrations are by Hal Gye.
The 'Blue Wren' edition in green cloth, with the front panel lettered in dark blue and decorated in two-tone blue with the author's monogram in the centre, and the spine lettered in gilt; boards a little bowed; spine lightly sunned; flyleaves lightly offset; an excellent copy.
This is a review copy, inscribed to 'The Editor, The Advertiser' on the half-title (with the small ink-stamp of the Adelaide booksellers E.S. Wigg and Son). The first edition comprised 20,000 'ordinary' copies and 5000 Blue Wrens; the six colour plates and the variant binding were exclusive to them. McLaren 475 ('Blue Wren Edition, with monogram'). This edition was published at 7/6; the ordinary edition was 4/-. McLaren states in his biographical essay that 'The public demand was so poor for the Blue Wren edition that it was remaindered at sixpence a copy' (page 16).
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