john pascoe fawkner (4 Ergebnisse)

18+14pp. 8vo. Original cloth in glassine dustwrapper. Black and white frontispiece. A near fine copy. One of a limited edition of 500 copies.

12pp. 8vo. Original cloth, with some slight insect damage to extremities. Otherwise a very good copy. Signed by Ian McLaren and John Gartner. Limited to 250 copies.

Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo, vi, [2],196 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Brown spine with gilt lettering. Boards have been rebound, have light bumping to spine head/tail and front head fore corner, and a small dent along the front fore edge. Textblock has foxing and light soiling throughout, and moderate age toning to edges. The half-title page appears to be tipped in when the book was rebound. Features two inscriptions from economic historian and Oxford scholar Max Hartwell to John Hughes, dated '1963', on the front and rear free endpapers (the latter inverted). Additionally, signed by John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869), founder of Melbourne, Australia, on page [1]. Shelved in Case 5. 1399220. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Written for and published by Jn. P. Fawkner. Monday, January the 8th. 1838. Melbourne. Vol. 1, No. 2.[Melbourne : s. n., circa 1860]. Foolscap folio, pp. [4], photolithographic facsimile, edges chipped, old folds and tape stains to a tear, edges chipped and brittle. Early facsimile of Melbourne's first newspaper, originally circulated in manuscript form only. As noted by Ferguson, a number of photolithographic facsimiles were produced in the nineteenth century, of which this is an example without imprint. Ferguson, 2547.