Early Toorak and district (signed presentation copy)

A$440 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Signed · Limited edition

Melbourne : Robertson Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong folio, lettered cloth (marked, split to spine), illustrated. Photographically illustrated history of Toorak and the surrounding suburbs of Malvern, Prahran, South Yarra and Hawthorn. A fine record of nineteenth century colonial architecture and society in Melbourne. With a presentation inscription from the author to R. H. Chaplin from Mrs. E. M. Robb, Jan. 1935 to the endpaper. The only substantial history on Toorak. Scarce.

• Binding: Hardcover

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