Augustus Short, First Bishop of Adelaide. A Chapter of Colonial Church History
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1887 [this Adelaide edition is the first edition].
Octavo, xxiv, 301, [3] (blank, colophon, blank) pages plus a Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of Bishop Short (image size 145 × 98 mm, mounted on card printed with his facsimile signature).
Gilt-pictorial brown cloth a little flecked, and lightly marked and rubbed; plain inside surfaces of the decorated endpapers a little foxed, with trifling silverfish loss to the surface of the verso of the front flyleaf; plain paper guard to the frontispiece a little cracked; overall an excellent copy`.
A London edition of this book was published in 1888, with pages ix-304 (everything from the table of contents) being the sheets of this Adelaide edition. The first eight pages, the cloth colour, lettering and decoration differ, and it invariably contains the Woodburytype frontispiece portrait. The Woodburytype is derived from the original albumen paper photograph occasionally (but not invariably) found as the frontispiece in the Adelaide edition. Ferguson 18499 (not noting the last point). Provenance: 'Willm B. Andrews | Norwood | Febry 17, 1888' is written in ink on the verso of the front flyleaf. The Reverend Canon William Buckton Andrews (1829-1918) was the rector of St Bartholomew's Anglican Church, Norwood, SA from 1874 to 1914.
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