Australia.- Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil (The), an almost complete run, vol.1 no.1-vol.17 no.252 (lacking only no.235) bound in 4 vol., with special supplement no.237 but without any of the other supplements with colour or lithograph plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, a few tears, some browning to no.234-230 occasional foxing and staining but generally in very good clean condition, later cloth, folio, Melbourne, 1873-89; sold as a periodical, not subject to return

⁂ An excellent almost complete run of this profusely illustrated periodical similar in style to The Illustrated London News or The Graphic, covering all aspects of Australasian life and an important socio-historic documentation of life in Victorian times. From in-depth coverage of the Ned Kelly gang story to maritime and railway disasters, Boxing Day cricket with W.G.Grace, racing, ausie-rules football, fashion, portraits of the great and the good, natural phenomena etc., this is a rich seam of information on a maturing nation.