Diary for 1893 (Luxury Ausralian Miniature )

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Title Page date changed 1893 to 1898+ 4 pages + Notes for 1893 page + 24 pages diary + notes for 1894 page ( All pages are double pages as so small). Size approx 2.5 x 7.5 cm. Original Luxury dust cover/jacket made of maroon leather over wood with good clear ? Melville, Mullen & Slade. Melbourne? in embossed gilt letters and decoration., in very good condition. Binding maroon leather, with embossed gilt decoration, thinnish, not hard and not paperback, in mostly very good condition, minor loss to spine, corner crease to front top corner. Contents mostly very good, clean & tight, with some notes/inscriptions, some printed 1893 dates changed, title page changed from 1893 to 1898, about half the diary pages with one or two notes inc chaging dates 1894 -1898 Pages with gilt edges. From Net; Melville, Mullen & Slade of Melbourne, Australia, with an office in London were Samuel Mullen, A. G. Melville and Leonard Slade, but in the financial crash of the 1890?s, Melville, Mullen & Slade was taken over by their creditor, McCarron, Bird & Co. Slade lost his equity and his name was dropped. The firm became Melville & Mullen. Retained as an executive, Slade was very bitter. His partners were later able to buy their way out of the débâcle and became Melville & Mullen. As usual with with diaries, printed/published the year before, usually about November/December 1892 for 1893.and used 1898. From a quick net check, was unable to find another diary of any year. So a very rare item and possibly unique in this condition, with original dust cover/jacket, Please see scans. N° de ref. del artículo 003609

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