Blanche: An Australian Diary 1858-1861
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Blanche Mitchell
Binding: Hardback
Published: JOHN FERGUSON, 1980
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
The diary of Blanche Mitchell, with notes by Edna Hickson and illustrated by Jill Francis. Pp. 288(last blank), the title page vignette and numerous text decorations printed in blue & black, appendix; small cr. 4to; navy art. leather, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board featuring a coloured oval portrait onlay, the top fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; clear printed dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, small piece chipped from top fore-corner of front panel; John Ferguson, Sydney, 1980. First edition. *Blanche Mitchell was the youngest daughter of the Surveyor-General, Sir Thomas Mitchell. The diary, previously unpublished, was written between her 15th and 18th years, and gives a picture of fashionable Sydney society in the mid-1800s.
Author: Blanche Mitchell
Binding: Hardback
Published: JOHN FERGUSON, 1980
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
The diary of Blanche Mitchell, with notes by Edna Hickson and illustrated by Jill Francis. Pp. 288(last blank), the title page vignette and numerous text decorations printed in blue & black, appendix; small cr. 4to; navy art. leather, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board featuring a coloured oval portrait onlay, the top fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; clear printed dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, small piece chipped from top fore-corner of front panel; John Ferguson, Sydney, 1980. First edition. *Blanche Mitchell was the youngest daughter of the Surveyor-General, Sir Thomas Mitchell. The diary, previously unpublished, was written between her 15th and 18th years, and gives a picture of fashionable Sydney society in the mid-1800s.