Augustus short first bishop (11 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this biography, Frederick Taylor Whitington tells the story of Augustus Short, the first bishop of Adelaide in Australia. Spanning a period of thirty-four years, Short's episcopate was marked by significant achievements and challenges. Whitington's account is both engaging and informative, shedding light on an important figure in Australia's religious history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Printing. xxii, 301 [3 blank inc colophon]; brown boards, gold image of bishop headdress on front, titling to spine, rubbed, bumped, marked but solid. Missing frontispiece photograph of Bishop Short in chair.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1887 [this Adelaide edition is the first edition]. Octavo, xxii (last blank), 301, [2] (blank, colophon) pages plus a Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of Bishop Short (image size 145 × 98 mm, mounted on card printed with his facsimile signature). Gilt-pictorial brown cloth a little flecked, rubbed, and bumped; trifling signs of use and age; overall, an excellent copy. A London edition of this book was published in 1888, with pages ix-304 (from the table of contents onwards) being the sheets of this Adelaide edition. The first eight pages, the cloth colour, lettering and decoration differ, and it invariably contains the Woodburytype frontispiece portrait. The Woodburytype is derived from the original albumen silver photograph occasionally (but not invariably) found as the frontispiece in the Adelaide edition. Ferguson 18499 (not noting the last point).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1888/ 1887 (first edition, published in Adelaide). Octavo, xxii, 301, [3] (blank, colophon, blank), 40 (publisher's catalogue) pages plus a Woodburytype portrait frontispiece (120 × 95 mm) and an errata slip after page xiv (not found in the Adelaide edition). Gilt-decorated cloth slightly rubbed; small paper label at the foot of the spine (see below); edges and leaves adjacent to the boards a little foxed; overall, an excellent copy. Pages ix-304 (from the table of contents onwards) are the sheets of the 1887 Adelaide edition. The first eight pages, the cloth colour, lettering and decoration for this London edition differ, and it invariably contains the Woodburytype frontispiece portrait. The Woodburytype is derived from the original albumen paper photograph occasionally (but not invariably) found as the frontispiece in the Adelaide edition. Ferguson 18499 (not noting the last point). Provenance: Sir Henry Parkes (1815-1896), NSW politician and journalist, with a commemorative bookplate on the front pastedown ('This book was one of a Collection associated with the name of Sir Henry Parkes, and housed in the Chief Secretary's Department of New south Wales until 1956'). The inkstamp of the Colonial Secretary's Office is on the verso of the frontispiece and at the end of the author's preface; the inkstamp of the Colonial Secretary's Office Library is on the title-page (and explains the small label on the spine).…