Brisbane and Environs Illustrated: Twelve Views of the Scenery of the City and Neighbourhood.

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Second Series [ Contents ] Photographed by Geo. P. Wright, Creek Street, (Opposite the Union Bank) Brisbane. MDCCCLXXVIII. At head of title: Under the Patronage of His Excellency the Governor . Brisbane : George P. Wright [printed by Cleghorn Co.], 1878. Oblong folio, original half morocco over brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (boards marked and scuffed, corners worn, head of spine frayed), original marbled endpapers, title page printed in red and black (loss at upper right corner), [12] leaves of thick card, recto of each with a mounted albumen print photograph, 210 x 280 mm, centred within a printed purple border bearing the imprint of G.P. Wright, Photo. to His Excellency / Creek Street, Brisbane , and with a printed caption outside the lower border, all interleaving intact, versos blank, the albumen prints with slight yellowing but in very good condition, the leaves clean and with a minimal amount of pale foxing. Extremely rare. The title page indicates that this edition of Wright s Brisbane and Environs Illustrated is part of a second series. The only other recorded example of this series is held in the collection of the State Library of Queensland (examples of the first series, issued around 1875, are held in the State Library of Queensland, National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales). However, neither album is known to Holden (Holden, Robert. Photography in colonial Australia : the mechanical eye and the illustrated book ), whose bibliogra

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