RUSSELL, Alexander

The Seeker and Other Poems; with In Parochia

Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1881 [first edition, first issue, with the list of subscribers at the end of the second part].

Octavo, viii, 292, 59 pages plus a tipped-in errata slip.

Green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth lightly marked and flecked; a near-fine copy.

Alexander Russell (1825-1886) was Dean of Adelaide; he was the 'most cultivated and least fatuous writer of didactic verse' in the colony (Depasquale: 'A Critical History of south Australian Literature, 1836-1930', 1978).

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