The Laws We Live Under
[Adelaide], Government Printer (for the Education Department), 1880 [first edition].
Duodecimo, 119 pages.
Limp dark green cloth lettered and ruled in black on the front cover, all edges marbled; covers a little rubbed, flecked and marked; stitching a little loose in the first 16-page section, with slight loss to the top corner-tip of the next 16-page section; three Education Department stamps (two dated 11 March 1881, another 1885), and a small monogram stamp on two pages; top corner of the rear cover slightly pitted; minimal signs of use and age; a very good copy.
A pioneering work, being 'the first social studies textbook used in Australian schools, and anticipated similar courses in the other colonies by twenty years' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). It was reprinted the following year with this prefatory note: 'it is not a dry text-book, but has the local colour, which my long residence in South Australia, and my deep interest in her welfare, has enabled me to give it'.
Item #124206
Price (AUD):
$250.00