Augustus Short, First Bishop of Adelaide. A Chapter of Colonial Church History

[SHORT, Bishop Augustus] WHITINGTON, Fred T. (editor)

Published by E.S. Wigg & Son, Adelaide, 1887

About this Item

Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1887 [this Adelaide edition is the first edition]. Octavo, xxii (last blank), 301, [2] (blank, colophon) pages plus a Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of Bishop Short (image size 145 × 98 mm, mounted on card printed with his facsimile signature). Gilt-pictorial brown cloth a little flecked, rubbed, and bumped; trifling signs of use and age; overall, an excellent copy. A London edition of this book was published in 1888, with pages ix-304 (from the table of contents onwards) being the sheets of this Adelaide edition. The first eight pages, the cloth colour, lettering and decoration differ, and it invariably contains the Woodburytype frontispiece portrait. The Woodburytype is derived from the original albumen silver photograph occasionally (but not invariably) found as the frontispiece in the Adelaide edition. Ferguson 18499 (not noting the last point).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Augustus Short, First Bishop of Adelaide. A Chapter of Colonial Church History
• Publisher: E.S. Wigg & Son, Adelaide
• Publication Date: 1887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
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