Item #124881 The Story of Australia. Its Discoverers and Founders. [Bound together with] Founders of Australia and their Descendants [which is the cover title]. Alfred S. KENYON.

KENYON, Alfred S.

The Story of Australia. Its Discoverers and Founders. [Bound together with] Founders of Australia and their Descendants [which is the cover title]

Geelong, The Corio Press, [late 1930s].

Quarto, [iv], [9]-104; and 531, [3] (index) pages with numerous illustrations from plates.

Gilt-pictorial cloth, all edges gilt; covers a little bumped and worn at the extremities; minor conservation work to a handful of leaves (mainly to the edges, but one leaf had been torn in two); trifling signs of use and age; name-stamp and ink address details on the title page; a very good copy.

The second portion of the book (over 530 pages) contains potted histories of numerous pioneers and their descendants. Most of the pioneers in this edition are from South Australia or western Victoria.