HORN, William Austin

Bush Echoes [and Ballads on a Warrigal Pegasus (half-title subtitle)]

London, Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1901.

Octavo, [70] pages.

Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with a plate of an Indigenous man holding a spear in a woomera (79 × 77 mm) mounted on the front cover within a black border; edges uncut; cloth sunned and flecked, with some tiny chips to the front cover; endpapers foxed; some leaves tanned (acidic paper); a very good copy.

Inscribed by the author to 'E.C. Stirling | ex dono Warrigalis | May 1901' - from one significant South Australian identity to another. William Austin Horn (1841-1922) was a mining magnate, pastoralist, politician - and occasional poet. 'In 1894 he organized and equipped the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919) was a surgeon, scientist and politician: not least, he was medical officer and anthropologist on the Horn Expedition. His armorial bookplate is on the front pastedown.

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