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C1853
The Life and Adventures of a Gold-Digger.
Author:
John Sherer
Well known fictitious colonial account of life on the Victorian gold fields published 1853. ” This is the re-issue of The Gold-finder of Australia with the same printed pages, but with a new title and publisher Notoriously without acknowledgement Sherer … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Life and Adventures of a Gold-Digger.
Date:
C1853
Author:
John Sherer
Condition:
Tear to front end paper, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hard cover, half morocco and marbled boards
Paper Size:
141mm
x 205mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1853
Description:
Well known fictitious colonial account of life on the Victorian gold fields published 1853. ”
This is the re-issue of The Gold-finder of Australia with the same printed pages, but with a new title and publisher
Notoriously without acknowledgement Sherer copied S.T. Gill’s Sketches of the Victoria Gold Diggings and Diggers As They Are, for the illustrations. He merely notes that illustrations are “taken from Drawings made on the spot”. Sherer was a quite prolific London journalist and writer who claims to have visited the diggings (but didn’t). He wrote up this adventurous account on the basis of numerous published and unpublished sources. Wantrup
Bound in early half morocco and marbled boards, octavo, 37 engraved plates (mainly after S.T. Gill), London, Clarke, [circa 1859] a very good copy. Manuscript owners name and date in sepia ink; B. Coles June 6th 1883
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References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: 15636.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 :: p.320.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 4193471
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: 15636.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 :: p.320.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 4193471
