Adelaide, J. Williams, Printer [for the Author], 1880 [second edition]/ 1879. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper 'From G. Hamilton to Capt Dashwood with the Author's best wishes, 22 Dec 1880'. George Frederick Dashwood (1806-1881) arrived in South Australia in the early 1840s; in 1843..... More
Sydney, Hordern House, 1988. 'An Historical Survey' (38 pages); 'Photographic Genres' (34 pages); and a detailed (but not comprehensive) bibliography of 130 photographically illustrated books (86 pages). A fascinating and little-known branch of book illustration; limited to 1000 copies. More
Melbourne, The Literary Committee [of The Congress], 1889. One of the photographs ('Necrosis of Fingers and Toes') illustrates 'Diseases of Polynesians, as seen in Queensland' by F. BOWE (8 pages). The other five illustrate 'A New Procedure for the Cure of Congenital Talipes Varus and Equino-Varus' by T.N. FITZGERALD (6..... More
Adelaide, Carey, Page & Co., Printers ("Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision"), 1885. The lithographs are a frontispiece view after Skipper, 15 full-page portraits and one plate containing three portraits; the photographs are of the Governor (and dedicatee) Sir William Robinson (140x88mm, by Hammer and Co.) and Loyau (98x58mm..... More
Adelaide, Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced], 1880. A rare and desirable item, attested to by the provenance of this copy: it has the armorial bookplate of Charles Glover on the pastedown, and the blind-stamp of Sir Thomas Ramsay on the flyleaf ('T.M.R. |..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1879. See Ferguson 15986 (not noting this cloth-bound edition nor the frontispiece - we have previously handled a copy with a lithographic frontispiece - and not mentioning this photographically illustrated edition; see Holden 61). More
Melbourne, [The Society], 1874. This issue also contains (among much else) FISON, Reverend Lorimer: The Classificatory System of Kinship (26 pages), and PAIN, H.E.: Abstract of a Paper on Aboriginal Art in Australasia, Polynesia, and Oceania, and its Decay (6 pages). More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1879. Holden 61; Ferguson 15986 (noting only an edition in wrappers, without the frontispiece). More
Canterbury, Printed and Published by Gibbs and Sons, 1889. More
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. Almost half the book (58 pages) is given over to verse by Stephenson, who died at the age of 18 in May 1865. With a contemporary inscription (in Charles Todd's hand?) to 'Lizzie Todd 4th Decr 1865' in ink on an early blank; the..... More
London, Peacock, Mansfield and Britton, 1870 (extra-illustrated edition, using the sheets of the 131st edition published by James Parker and Co., Oxford). A deluxe edition of Keble's influential collection of poems, extra-illustrated with 13 original photographs of important religious paintings. This copy comes from the collection of South Australian pastoralist..... More
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882. Loosely inserted is an albumen silver photograph (170 × 110 mm) mounted on card (300 × 230 mm, with the inkstamp credit of the photographers T. and R. Annan of Glasgow) of the memorial tablet in Glasgow Cathedral to Major Alexander Dunlop..... More
Adelaide, Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision'), 1885. The photographs are of Captain Samuel White Sweet (130 × 71 mm, presumably a self-portrait), and George Loyau (98 × 58 mm, credited in the negative to George & Walton: he is facing the camera, with..... More
Adelaide, J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. The frontispiece, a Townsend Duryea photograph, is a composite of five numbered oval portraits; the identification key is printed on the verso of the title page. Ferguson 16706 (not identifying the photographer, and not indicating that the five photographic portraits are in fact one composite..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Acting Government Printer, 1879. The original photographs that illustrate the book are almost certainly the work of Captain Samuel Sweet (see Robert Holden: 'Photography in Colonial Australia. The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book', 1988). We have handled a number of copies of this work, and this..... More
