[GEELONG] Barwon ballads and school verses

Melbourne : Melville & Mullen Proprietary, 1912. “Memorial edition”. Octavo, original grey cloth boards (a small amount of flecking), upper board with gilt device, lettering and rule, spine lettered in gilt (sunned), top edge gilt, deckled fore-edge, front pastedown with later bookplate, frontispiece portrait of the author, pp xxx, 318; light foxing.

‘This selection of J.L. Cuthbertson’s verses is published by members of the Geelong Grammar School. It contains 172 pieces, all of which (with four exceptions) originally appeared in the Geelong Grammar School Quaterly, between the years 1875 and 1910…. ‘ (Preface).

‘In 1875, James Lister Cuthbertson joined the staff as Classics master. He had a great influence upon the boys of the school and was much admired and loved by them in spite of his alcoholism….’ (Wikipedia)