Memoirs of Thomas Frost, 1825-1910
Adelaide, Gillingham Printers, 1985.
Large quarto, xiv, 209 pages with several maps and numerous illustrations (mainly from historical sources) plus a folding plan ('Plan of the Green-Hills. Special Survey ... by J.R. Burslem, Jan. 1841') and pictorial endpapers.
Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and front cover; edges speckled red; a fine copy in the original clear acetate dustwrapper (a little chipped and torn at the foot of the spine).
The first and only edition of these memoirs; number 34 of 260 copies signed by Peter Cotton (Managing Director of Gillingham Printers). 'Frost's reminiscences recount his experiences as a labourer, gardener, shepherd, cowherd, drover, miner, house-repairer, builder, contractor and, ultimately, architect with such well-known buildings to his credit as Brougham Place Church and Whinham College (now the Lutheran Seminary). He had tendered for the construction of the Overland Telegraph, his tender being rejected, apparently unfairly ... There is an artlessness about his reminiscences but this is due to his truthfulness and sincerity' (from the foreword by Sir Walter Crocker).
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