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Sydney Revels of Bacchus, Cupid, And Momus; Being Choice and Humorous Selections from Scenes at the Sydney Police Office, and Other Public Places, During the Last Three Years (the 1850s)
de Corbyn, Charles Adam [presented by Cyril Pearl)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0725400005
- ISBN 13
- 9780725400002
- Librería
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Ure Smith Pty. Ltd, Sydney, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Frank Broadhurst. 103 pp., introduction. Text illustrated with contemporary sketches and Frank Broadhurst's period drawings, illustrations are halftone. Illustrated endpapers, which is showing a illustration of "going to Botany". Grey boards with gilt titles on the backstrip. There is in minor shelf wear evident on the bottom edge and the corners are slightly rubbed. On the front paste down and ffep., there a small piece missing 1" x .5". The front endpapers have a sun line running down the full-length of the page. Illustrated dustwrapper, again showing sketches from Sydney 1850s, black titles on the front panel and on the spine. "Here is a lusty, Hogarthian picture of life in the Sydney of the 1850s --- a dirty, intimate, hard drinking, evil smelling town of no more than 75,000 people and no less than 400 pubs. Swaggering gold - diggers and staggering drunks, brawling housewives and brazen harlots, pickpockets and publicans, cabbies and constables, soldiers and sailors, mistresses and maids, speak to us here in their own vivid words, faithfully preserved by Charles Adam Corbyn, a police court reporter of the day.". there is a quarter-inch care at the top left of the front panel, and towards the centre of the top edge of the same panel. Slight rubbing at the corners of the binding, internally clean, no annotations. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Frank Broadhurst. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism; ISBN: 0725400005. ISBN/EAN: 9780725400002. Inventory No: 0285459. . 9780725400002
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- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0285459
- Título
- Sydney Revels of Bacchus, Cupid, And Momus; Being Choice and Humorous Selections from Scenes at the Sydney Police Office, and Other Public Places, During the Last Three Years (the 1850s)
- Autor
- Corbyn, Charles Adam [presented by Cyril Pearl)
- Ilustrador
- Frank Broadhurst
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0725400005
- ISBN 13
- 9780725400002
- Editorial
- Ure Smith Pty. Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- Sydney
- Fecha de publicación
- 1970
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 Australia, Sydney, Newspapers, Social Life, History, Social Mores History; Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism; Frank Broadhurst Unbranded ISBN: 0725400005 EAN: 9780725400002 Corbyn, Charles Adam [presented by Cyril Pearl)
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism;
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melbourne, Victoria
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