Early Toorak and district (signed presentation copy)

Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong folio, lettered cloth (marked, split to spine), illustrated. Photographically illustrated history of Toorak and the surrounding suburbs of Malvern, Prahran, South Yarra and Hawthorn. A fine record of nineteenth century colonial architecture and society in Melbourne. With a presentation inscription from the author to ‘R. H. Chaplin from Mrs. E. M. Robb, Jan. 1935’ to the endpaper.

The only substantial history on Toorak. Scarce.