Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia
Adelaide, Printed at the 'Advertiser', 'Chronicle' and 'Express' Offices [for the Author], 1878.
Octavo, x, 304, [24] (advertisements) pages plus a frontispiece lithograph ('Adelaide 1838') and an advertising slip for Alfred Waddy, bookbinder (whose small paper label in affixed to the rear pastedown).
Original green textured cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; cloth rubbed, lightly stained and a little worn at the extremities; inner hinges expertly reinforced; endpapers discoloured, with slight loss to silverfish; text paper a little tanned; occasional signs of age and use, but overall a very good copy. Curiously, 'Barrow & King | Adelaide' is stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine.
This first edition essentially deals with the period 1836 to 1842 (and in far greater detail than the 1884 edition). Provenance: W.H. Bailey (possibly William Harris Bailey, circa 1840-1907, commercial traveller, storeman, jeweller and grocer), with his ownership details on the endpapers. The later signature 'E. Hack' is written in ink on the front free endpaper. This is possibly Edward Hack (1829-1904), the second of 15 children of John Barton Hack and his wife Bridget née Watson. John Barton Hack (1805-1884) landed at Holdfast Bay with his wife and their first six children in February 1837; his many and varied pioneering activities are recorded in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Ferguson 7652.
Item #139670
Price (AUD):
$750.00