The Marcus Clarke memorial volume, containing selections from the writings of Marcus Clarke,

together with Lord Rosebery’s letter, etc., and a biography of the deceased author. Melbourne : Cameron, Laing and Co., 1884. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, frontispiece with mounted photographic portrait (an original albumen print with the photographer’s name Batchelder in the image, 89 x 55 mm) and facsimile signature, pp xii, 13-322, [16 advertisements]; a very good copy of the cloth bound issue.

A tribute to the colonial writer Marcus Clarke (1846-1881), best known for his novel For the term of his natural life, compiled by his friend Hamilton Mackinnon.

Provenance : E. Pescott, signed by him on preliminary blank.