Hugh mccrae editor (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. This is the journal of a Scottish pioneering woman in colonial Victoria. She was a portrait artist, linguist, musician and diarist. Georgiana Huntly McCrae arrived in Sydney with her husband, Andrew McCrae, and children in March 1839. By 1842, the family had settled at Mayfield House on the Yarra River. The family moved again to Dromana in 1845. According to her biographer Norman Cowper, Georgiana was a woman of strong character, exceptional education, wit, charm and cultivated taste, and was a significant figure in the early days of settlement in Victoria. …

xxii+260pp. 8vo. Original cloth in worn dustwrapper. Colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations. A very good copy.

xx+316pp. Small 4to. Original blue cloth, a little flecked and faded, tape from covering on endpapers. Heavy foxing to edges with some foxing to early pages and throughout. Name on preliminary blank. Ink note about the McCrae name taped onto verso preliminary blank. Black and white plates. A good copy. First edition.…