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CONSTITUTION (1958) SIR ROBERT GARRAN: ‘Prosper the Commonwealth’, Vg HB 1st ed.

by Sir Robert Randolph Garran

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SIR ROBERT RANDOLPH GARRAN: ‘Prosper the Commonwealth’ Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1958 (first edition). Large octavo hardcover in green cloth; 444 pages plus a photographic frontispiece and 16 full-page plates The posthumously published memoirs of one of the principal architects of Australian Federation, covering Garran’s life, the constitutional movement and the formative decades of the Commonwealth. Sir Robert Garran (1867–1957) was an Australian constitutional lawyer, the Commonwealth’s first federal public servant and its first Solicitor-General. He helped draft the Constitution, co-authored the authoritative Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth and received the first state funeral accorded to an Australian. FREE LOCAL PICKUP in Adelaide.

  • Publisher: Angus and Robertson
  • Year: 1958
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Condition: Very Good

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