Leask Chalmers (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. End Papers Lightly Foxed Spine Lightly Bumped.

[12]+774pp. 4to. Original blue cloth in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. . First edition. Signed copy.

Pp. [xii]+774+[2](for family notes), mostly printed double column, black & white text illustrations, indices; thick cr. 4to; blue art. leather, lettered and decorated in gilt; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Australian Genealogies Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, 1979. First trade edition. Signed.

Compiled and edited by B. Chalmers Leask, Kt. T. Quarto, full cream vellum, gilt decoration to upper board, gilt title on blue name-label to spine. No. 79 of a special limited edition of 500 copies bound by Peter Marsh of the Dove Bindery, and signed by S. Chalmers Leask A pristine copy, some leaves uncut. in a fine light blue slipcase with sunned edges.

Pp. [xii]+774+[2](for family notes), coloured frontispiece, black & white text illustrations, 4 page subscriber's list tipped-in at front, indices; thick cr. 4to; full vellum, with gilt lettered blue leather title label on spine and gilt device on upper board; uncut and partly unopened; within blue card slipcase, a trifle soiled and faded; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Australian Genealogies, Melbourne, 1979. Deluxe Subscribers' Edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, bound by Dove Bindery and signed by the compiler on the title page. *With supplementary working copy (slightly foxed and a trifle silverfished), in plainer binding, as issued; into which is loosely inserted the numbered and signed publisher's information slip. Signed.