Item #113628 Essays and Miscellaneous Pieces by the late Edward R. Stephenson. With a preface by his Friend, C. Todd. Edward R. STEPHENSON.
Essays and Miscellaneous Pieces by the late Edward R. Stephenson. With a preface by his Friend, C. Todd ...
Essays and Miscellaneous Pieces by the late Edward R. Stephenson. With a preface by his Friend, C. Todd ...
Essays and Miscellaneous Pieces by the late Edward R. Stephenson. With a preface by his Friend, C. Todd ...

Essays and Miscellaneous Pieces by the late Edward R. Stephenson. With a preface by his Friend, C. Todd ...

Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865.

Octavo, [ii] (half-title), viii, 118 pages with 2 mounted albumen paper photographs with tissue-guards (one, mounted as a frontispiece on the verso of the half-title, is a portrait of Stephenson, 87 × 57 mm; the other is of a sketch, presumably by Stephenson, 103 × 57 mm).

Original blind-stamped brown cloth rebacked in calf; sides unevenly sunned; scattered light foxing (heaviest on the tissue-guards and adjacent leaves, and with two small spots on the first photograph); bookplate removed from the initial blank, with some unobtrusive paste residue; overall a very good copy.

With the contemporary ownership details of 'Revd Henry Pollitt, Woodville, 4th Decr 1865' on the flyleaf. One of the earliest Australian imprints illustrated with original photographs (see Holden: 'Photography in Colonial Australia' [Sydney, 1988]), where the author is incorrectly referred to in the text and index as Stevensen). The first essay, the St Peter's Collegiate School Prize Essay of 1864, is entitled 'The Difficulties of Colonization in the Northern Territory' (17 pages); another two pages are devoted to the importance of the acquisition of the Northern Territory to South Australia. Almost half the book (58 pages) is given over to verse by Stephenson, who died at the age of 18 in May 1865. Ferguson 16245 (noting a six-page book review, not present in all copies in our experience); Holden 103.

Item #113628

Price (AUD): $400.00