Early Toorak and district

Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), lettered cloth (boards lightly stained and flecked); pp. 137, illustrated throughout with b/w photographic plates, gift inscription to front free endpaper, blind stamps to half-title and title pages, light foxing to preliminaries, a good copy.

Scarce photographically-illustrated history of Toorak and the surrounding suburbs of Malvern, Armadale, Prahran, South Yarra and Hawthorn. An excellent record of nineteenth-century colonial architecture and society in Melbourne – and the only substantial monograph on the history of Toorak. Includes substantial houses and estates such as Tivoli, Como, Heyington, Glen Castle (now Scotch College), Glenferrie, Myrnong, Glyndebourne, Toorak House, Balmerino, Glamorgan, Cloverdale, Arizona, Orrong, Millicent, Mandeville Hall, Montalso, Springfield, Ellerslie, Hawksburn et alia.