Leaves from Australian forests / by Henry Kendall, Melbourne : George Robertson, 1869

MLMSS 7966

fonds

1869

897161

0.02 metres of textual material

This is the first edition of Henry Kendall's second book corrected by the author.

This proof copy contains printed pages with numbering viii, 4-[160].
The additonal 3 pages contain newspaper clippings of Lawsons' two other poems, The River and the Hill and Dusk. The 3rd newsclipping is an article about Henry Kendall published, 16 July 1874

This book contains a slip listing it's previous auction as Lot No. 43 Christies. Also a notecard with the ame and addrress of Archie Glenn.

Frontispiece `The proof marks in this book were revised by Kendall himself and the book is the First ed. of his second volume of poems' - J. Howlett Ross

1st ed. proof copy