Reminiscences of Forty-Seven Years' Clerical Life in South Australia
Adelaide, A.H. Roberts, 1895.
Octavo, xii (first leaf blank), 306 pages plus a folding table at the rear.
Purple pebble-grain cloth sunned on the spine and very lightly flecked; acidic paper discoloured (as ever); front inner hinge cracked but very firm; light pencil marks in the margins of a handful of pages; overall an excellent copy.
The author was 'Twelve Years Incumbent of St George's, Woodforde, and St Martin's, Campbelltown; also, Twenty-Nine Years Incumbent of St Stephen's, Willunga, St Philip and St James', Noarlunga, and St Ann's, Aldinga'. For every chapter on 'Church Organisation - Cathedral Acre' and 'Alterations in the Manner of Conducting Public Worship', there's one on 'Sundry Incidents' or 'The Aborigines'. The latter is most interesting, containing within its fourteen pages a closely-printed seven-page contemporary account of Miller's 1858 visit to Poonindie. Ferguson 12592 (noting an errata slip not present in this copy).
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