PARKHOUSE, Thomas Anstey (editor)

Reprints and Papers relating to the Autochthones of Australia. Part I [and] II

Woodville, The Editor, [1923 and 1935].

Octavo, two volumes, viii, 176; and [iii]-vi, 47 pages.

Brown cloth with the title in gilt along the spine; head of one spine a little bumped, with one corner lightly worn; cloth very lightly rubbed at the extremities, and very slightly flecked and rubbed; marbled endpapers of the first volume a little mottled on the plain inside surface of the free endpapers; an excellent set with the ownership signature and stamp of E. Angas Johnson (see our footnote).

The articles are by John Stephens, William Wyatt, William Williams, C.G. Teichelmann and C.W. Schuermann, and M. Moorhouse. Both volumes were hand-set and printed by Thomas Parkhouse, who died before the completion of the second volume - his daughter Mary finished printing the page he was working on. Norman Tindale, in his preface to the second volume, states that 100 copies of the first volume were produced, but we have sold a copy containing a 1934 letter to the amateur anthropologist Harold Sheard from Parkhouse wherein he claims to have printed 80 copies. Either way, sets are scarce.

Edward Angas Johnson (1873-1951) was an Adelaide medical practitioner, prominent in public health circles; his grandmother was a daughter of George Fife Angas. 'His hobby was collecting curios and historical relics, especially those relating to South Australian history. This remarkable collection and his library were distributed to public institutions before his death' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').

Johnson has added to or inserted in these volumes a quantity of relevant ephemera. Mounted in the volumes are printed portraits of Teichelmann and Schuermann, a newspaper cutting about the production of the first volume (with additional personal comments by Johnson) and an original photograph of Teichelmann, with a lengthy account by Johnson of how he came to have it.

Loosely inserted are nine contemporary newspaper or magazine cuttings and two unrelated items. [2 items].

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