Robinson michael massey (10 risultati)

stapled paperback booklet in very good condition; 112 pages, b/w photos, Australian Historical Monographs Volume IV (New Series).

112 pp, b&w plates, fine copy in limp wrappers. Number 4 in the Mackaness Monograph reprint series.

1st edition linen wrappers As New octavo 112pp., b/w plates, Australian Historical Monographs.

First Poet Laureate of Australia (1754-1826). With an Introduction by George Mackaness. Pp. 112, 5 text illustrations, appendix; printed textured paper wrappers, stapled, faintly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed; a couple of spots of foxing; Review Publications Pty. Ltd., Dubbo, N.S.W., 1976. Australian Historical Monographs Volume IV (New Series). *Originally published privately by Dr. Mackaness in 1946, in a limited edition of 100 copies.…

Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. stapled wraps. 112pp. Very Good. Volume IV in the Australian Historical Monographs (new series). This is a limited reprint edition of one of the 46 Australian Historical Monographs edited and privately published by Dr. George Mackaness. The monographs were produced in the period 1953 to 1962 in limited editions. They covered an enormous range of historical subjects and largely involved material which had not previously been published.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. Dampstain and wrinkles to 80mm top corner of front panel of dust-jacket. 25mm dampstain to paper on front board.; This copy is number 32 of a limited edition of 150 numbered copies. 42, [1], [5 (blank)] pages. Cream boards with black lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 203 x 118mm. Printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. "'Old Ham Frest Drest' is the poem for which Michael Massey Robinson was transported in 1798 : it is the criminal poem of Australia's first poet laureate." - page 5. …

112pp. 4to. Original wrappers. A very good copy. B/w frontis. and illustrations. Limited to 90 copies, signed.

Pp. 44(last colophon, verso blank), title page printed in red & black; narrow post 8vo; cream papered boards, spine lettered in black; dust wrapper, faintly soiled and lightly foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Sullivan's Cove, Adelaide, 1989. Edition limited to 165 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. *'Old Ham Fresh Drest' is the poem for which Michael Massey Robinson was transported in 1798. The title derives from the name of Robinson's victim, James Oldham, an alderman of the city of London. 'In it, Robinson revived an old, disproven charge against Oldham of having murdered a former employer; he attempted to extort money from his victim by threatening to publish the verse, whereupon Oldham prosecuted him for blackmail' [Australian Dictionary of Biography]. This volume contains the text of the poem, along with Robinson's threatening letters to Oldham, and transcripts from the trial. …

Sullivan's Cove Adelaide 1989. Limited edition of 165 copies 10 of which were specially bound, this one being #5. Brown leather, small, 44pp. Fine. Ex libris Milton Whitmont. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.

(Adelaide): Sullivan's Cove, 1989. 8vo. Orig. brown calf. Spine gilt. (42pp.). With border and illust. on title-page and text-illusts. at top of each chapter page. Text on title-page printed in red and black. Lim. ed. of 165 numbered copies, printed by hand at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch, this being No. 650. Light toning and foxing on endpapers, otherwise a near fine copy. …