55. Miscellaneous Antiquarian Literature &C

  • The Spectator. 12th ed. London 1739. Vols 1,2,3,7.

  • James Thomson. The Poetical Works of James Thomson. 2 vols (bound as one), London 1787 [1762].

  • Robert Pollock. The Course of Time: a Poem, in Ten Books. 9th ed, Edinburgh 1829.

  • [William Combe]. The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. London 1844. Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill.

  • Mme de Stael. Corinne. Paris 1845.

  • Washington Irving. Salmagundi. London 1852.

  • J P Jacobsens. Jens Peter Jacobsens Fämtliche Werte. Leipzig, no date.

  • A H Miles and others. The New Standard Elocutionist. Melbourne, no date. Another copy. 9th edition, Melbourne, no date.

  • J W Kirkton. The Standard Temperance Reciter. London & Melbourne, no date. Copy with a presentation plate from the South Australia Alliance to Harry Ash for collecting five shillings for the 'Young Australia Funds'.

Childrens

  • J La Fontaine [notes by C A Walckenaer]. Fables. Paris 1852.

  • Sarah Tytler. Papers for Thoughtful Girls. London 1867.

  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. London, no date.

  • The Boys Own Annual, XXVIII. London 1905.

  • (f) Joseph Moorat & Paul Woodroffe. Thirty Old-Time Nursery Songs. London & New York, no date.

Australian

  • Jeannie [Mrs Æneas] Gunn. We of the Never Never. 23rd ed, London, no date [c 1919]. Inscribed by the author: 'Since this book was written ... Jeannie Gunn Melbourne, March 29 1934'. This book is the first known to me to use the expression 'drop slab' in relation to horizontal slab construction.

  • Edward Harrington. The Kerrigan Boys and other Australian Verses. Melbourne 1944.

See also:

(sec 21) Cunningham, Inigo Jones

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