Thomas & William Boone's Library of Australian Travels / Jonathan Wantrup
- Bib ID:
- 8078219
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wantrup, Jonathan, 1954-, author
- Description:
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- Armadale, Victoria : Australian Book Auctions, 2019
- ©2019
- 194 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 28 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780648703907 (hardback)
- Summary:
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Thomas and William Boone, prominent booksellers of new, secondhand, and antiquarian books and manuscripts in mid-nineteenth-century London, were responsible for publishing the first-hand accounts of all the major figures from the epic age of Australian exploration – Mitchell, Grey, Eyre, Hodgkinson, Stokes, Jukes, Leichhardt, Sturt and Macgillivray – as well as other rare and important Australian publications, such as George Grey’s A Vocabulary of the Dialects of South Western Australia and John Elphinstone Erskine’s Short Account of the late Discoveries of Gold in Australia; with notes of a Visit to the Gold District, the earliest account of an Australian gold field. These books formed what the Boones came to call their “Library of Australian Travels”. The result of over thirty years study, Jonathan Wantrup’s comprehensive survey of these publications describes the numerous variant issues and bindings of these seminal texts, establishing their order of issue.
The book includes an account of the firm in relation to their activities as booksellers and publishers; this is the first such account of the firm. Included are eight appendices: detailing all the advertisements found in books from Boone’s Australian ‘Library’ (advertisement slips, single-leaf advertisements, and advertisement catalogues); a chronological table of advertisements; a full list of plates in Boone’s Library, with variants noted; a full list of maps and charts, with variants noted; precise dates of publication of each book; and tables of comparative scarcity.
- Notes:
- Edition limited to135 copies signed by the author.
- Binding:
- Case bound in Oxford Green Buckram, blocked in gilt.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Thomas and William Boone's Library of Australian Travels
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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