Man and the Glacial Period

London : Megan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co., 1898. Second edition. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Wigram Allen Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, lithographed bookplate by Turner & Henderson to front pastedown presented to J. F. Stephen for Mathematics, signed by the Headmaster and dated December 1901, pp. xvi; 385, folding maps, text illustrations.

A superb example, barely a hint of rubbing to the edges, a fine Sydney prize binding.

This book was awarded to James Farish Stephen, whose obituary appeared in The Sydneian, no. 358, July 1967:

‘JAMES FARISH STEPHEN James Farish Stephen (1901) died in December last. Mr. Stephen had a distinguished academic record at School winning the following prizes:- 1902 – Morehead Scholarship. 1895, 1901 – Knox Prizes. 1901 – Wigram Allen Prize Mathematics. 1900 Wigram Allen Prize Natural Science. He was a life Member of the Old Sydneians’ Union.’