Australian Gossip and Story. By the 'Globe Trotter'. Reprinted from the 'Sydney Stock and Station Journal'
Sydney, William Brooks, 1895.
Large octavo, 166 pages with numerous illustrations (and advertisements from page 147) plus full-page plates and pastedown advertisements. Eight plates accompany an article on Belmont Park, a stud property on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, near Richmond; seven of them are illustrations of stud cattle and horses reproduced from artwork by Percy Spence.
Gilt-pictorial cloth a little rubbed, bumped and lightly marked; endpapers offset; an excellent copy.
The title page is inscribed to 'Hon. P.G. King with the compliments of the Author. Jan 21/96'. Mounted at the foot of the frontispiece portrait of 'The Globe Trotter' is his business card: 'Robert McMillan. Editor, "Sydney Stock & Station Journal"'.
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