44. Australia: Biography
T W H Leavitt [ed]. Australian Representative Men. 2nd ed, Melbourne 1887.
Fred Johns. Johns's Notable Australians. 2nd ed, Adelaide 1908.
M Jones. The Story of Captain Cook's Three Voyages Round the World. London 1870.
W J Barry. Up and Down. London 1879. Inscribed by the author, Capt. W. Barry, to K. Grant, 1886.
Alexander Tolmer. Reminiscences of an Adventurous and Chequered Career at Home and in the Antipodes. 2 vols, London 1882.
Florence Taylor. A Pot-Pourri of Eastern Asia. Sydney 1934. Travelogue of the pioneer planner and editor Florence Taylor, interspersed with extreme right wing opinions.
J M Giles. Some Chapters in the Life of George Augustine Taylor. Supplement to Construction, 11 December 1957. Sydney 1957. This copy from the library of T M Ramsay.
Ernest Wunderlich. All My Yesterdays. Sydney 1945.
George Taylor. "There!" A Pilgrimage of Pleasure. Sydney 1916. Copy inscribed by Taylor to William Holman, Premier of New South Wales, Christmas 1916.
A B Peirce [ed Mrs A T Leatherbee]. Knocking About. New Haven [Connecticut] 1924. Includes a description of building a pole and pug house at Hill End.
Victoria
T W H Leavitt & W D Lilburn. The Jubilee History of Victoria and Melbourne. 2 vols, Melbourne 1888.
Alexander Sutherland and others. Victoria and Its Metropolis Past and Present. 2 vols, Melbourne 1888.
James Smith [ed]. The Cyclopaedia of Victoria. 3 vols, Melbourne 1903, 1904 & 1905.
Benjamin Gregory. The Thorough Business Man. London 1874.
The Book of Matthias in Chapters. South Melbourne 1892. An account of the financial misdeeds and trial of Matthias Larkin and Patrick Cleary, partly in mock-biblical language.
(p) Phyllis Lewis. 1918. Melbourne, no date [1919]. A poem dedicated to the author's deceased brother, Owen Gower Lewis of the Australian Flying Corps.
James Lewis. 'Life'. Melbourne 1931. A hand illuminated book presented to his daughter Edith on her twenty-first birthday.
Macpherson Robertson. MacRobertson Abroad. Melbourne 1927. Presentation copy signed by MacRobertson.
George Taylor. Making it Happen. Melbourne 1934. Biography of Sir Macpherson Robertson, the confectionery magnate, by George Taylor of Angus & Robertsons, not George Augustine Taylor as above.
Victoria and Riverina. Melbourne 1933.
Georgiana McCrae [ed Hugh McCrae], Georgiana's Journal: Melbourne a Hundred Years Ago. Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1934.
Clive Turnbull. Bluestone. The Story of James Stephens. Melbourne 1945. Limited edition of 500.
F J Hardy. Power Without Glory. Melbourne 1950. This copy that of the Argus journalist Hugh Buggy.
J B Were. A Voyage from Plymouth to Melbourne in 1839. Melbourne 1964.
R M Jukes et al [eds]. Liber Melburniensis Centenary Edition. Melbourne 1965.
A E Badger et al. Liber Melburniensis 1915-1995. Melbourne 1995.
Frances Perry [ed A de Q Robin]. Australian Sketches. Melbourne 1984. No 221 in an edition of 225, signed by the author.
Dianne Reilly & Victoria Hammond. Charles Joseph La Trobe: Landscapes and Sketches. Melbourne 1999.
See also:
(sec 49) Meudell, Pleasant Career of a Spendthrift.