Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler’s publications for the Sesquicentenary)

A$550 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Sydney, N.S.W. : Simmons Limited, 1938. Produced by Oswald L. Ziegler under the authority of Australia s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council and in collaboration with its publicity committee. (title page). Elephant folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher s tan leather over boards (lightly rubbed and marked), upper board with black leather panel lettered in gilt 150 Years ; all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pp [332], photographic illustrations throughout (including colour photographs by Frank Hurley); Introduction by His Majesty King George VI; Foreword by J. A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia; contents pristine; lacking the slipcase. [WITH] A small archive of unique ephemera relating to both this publication and Ziegler s 150 Years in Australia souvenir programme (which was also produced for the Sesquicentenary celebrations), including: 1. Simmons Limited s Particulars of Job and Plans of Working sheets (in total 16 pp, folio) for Australia 1788-1938 and 150 Years in Australia , dated November 1936, February and March 1937, and January 1938, containing highly detailed handwritten printing specifications for the larger publication (5000 copies) and the programme (25,000 copies); 2. Typed letter, (1 page, foolscap folio), Sydney, 5 November 1936, Australia s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council to Oswald Ziegler, informing him of the Council s committment to purchase 25,000 copies at 1s 3d per copy of 150 Years in Australia , with the right to place further orders of 5000 or m

• Binding: Hardcover

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