Gill s t illustrator (2 resultados)

1st edition. Landscape 4to. [108pp.] B/w. illustrations. Original boards. Rubbed pictorial green d/w. lettered in yellow, chipped with slight loss to wrapp. at tail of spine. US$22.

1st ed. Hardback small, no jacket (as issued), good condition, green cloth boards (gilt title cover & spine), black & white photos (of drawings), frontispiece portrait, light toning endpapers, spine title little faded, minor edgewear, white correction mark front free flyleaf. 44 pp. First edition. The diary of Lord Robert Cecil during his visit to the Victorian Goldfields in 1852. This very special little book gives a vivid look at the life of the diggers on Bendigo Creek and at Mount Alexander. Lady Gwendolen Cecil found the diary among the papers of her father, and arranged to have this copy printed. Introduction and notes by Ernest Scott, professor of history, University of Melbourne. The illustrations are from drawings by S. T. Gill, except those of the Chief Commissioner's camp at Castlemaine (Mount Alexander), and the junction of Pegleg and Sailorâs Gully, which are from drawings by C. Rudson Read. …