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GILL, Samuel Thomas.
The Australian Sketchbook.
The Australian Sketchbook is a collection of 24 works by artist Samuel Thomas Gill. The scenes include bushrangers, diggers heading for the goldfields, a bush funeral, kangaroo and emu hunting and a corroboree. Published around 1865 by Melbourne printing and publishing firm Hamel and Ferguson, the book was extremely popular and ran to several editions.
- Published
- Melbourne: Hamel and Ferguson, 1865.
- References
- Ferguson 9924f; Mackaness, pp.160-161; Wantrup 251; Bobins 1110.
- Plates
- 25
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Melbourne: Hamel and Ferguson, 1865.
- Ref
- 5424
Oblong folio, 25 chromolithographs including the title. Contemporary full brown morocco with ornate gilt tooling to borders, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Boards chipped in places. Considered Gill's most famous volume, this is one of Australia's best 19th-century illustrated books. Coloured plates in order: 1. Title page. 2. Cattle Branding. 3. Attack on Store Dray. 4. The Duff Children (Aug 20, 1864). 5. Kangaroo Stalking. 6. Attacking the Mail (Bush-ranging, N.S.W. 1864). 7. Corroboree. 8. Splitters. 9. Bush Mailman. 10. Native Police. 11. Night Fishing. 12. Surveyors. 13. Bush Funeral. 14. Native Sepulchre. 15. Overlanders. 16. The New Rush. 17. Night Camp. 18. Native Miami. 19. Bushman's Hut. 20. Stockman. 21. Emu Sneaking. 22. Homeward Bound. 23. Wooldrays. 24. Prospecting. 25. Squatters Tiger.
