Item #145804 Australian Legends. Tales handed down from the Remotest Times by the Autocthonous Inhabitants of our Land. Parts 1 and 2. [Aboriginal Folk-Lore (cover subtitle)]. C. W PECK.

PECK, C.W.

Australian Legends. Tales handed down from the Remotest Times by the Autocthonous Inhabitants of our Land. Parts 1 and 2. [Aboriginal Folk-Lore (cover subtitle)]

Sydney, Stafford & Co. Ltd., 1925.

Octavo, 214, [10] (blank, colophon) pages with numerous line illustrations (from drawings by the author).

Red cloth; spine sunned, with the date of publication written later in white ink at the foot (but see below); edges slightly foxed and marked; light pencil annotations on the contents page; a very good copy (with the colour-pictorial front panel of the dustwrapper loosely inserted).

Provenance: Charles Glover (1870-1936), several times Lord Mayor of Adelaide and noted book collector, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. The white ink on the spine (and the dustwrapper 'treatment') are standard issue for books from his collection.