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Octavo,56 pp.Contemporary crimson morocco ornately gilt, gilt edges, a very handsome copy with an inscription on the front endpaper by James McEwan, founder of the famous Melbourne firm of ironmongers. HISTORY AND PROVENANCE: A splendid presentation binding from the Victorian Government Printerâs binder, representing the highest Australian achievement in this art. The binding is almost certainly by German born William Detmold (1828 -1884) who moved to Australia in 1852 and established a Melbourne business in 1854, based in Swanston Street and later Collins Street. Detmold won awards for binding at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878 and the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880. He was a friend of Victoria's government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller, and like Mueller, a life member of the Royal Society of Victoria. Not in Ferguson and unrecorded by Trove, though held by SLV. A revised edition, also rare, was prepared for the Centennial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888-89.