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DAVID TULLOCH (c.1829-1869)
Ham's Five Views of the Gold Fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria. Melbourne: Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong small 2° (272 x 427mm). Title, 5 tinted lithographic plates with original tissue guards, text on facing leaf. (Tear to fore-edge of title-page, lower fore-edge of title-page and first three sheets frayed, some dust soiling and spotting, original tissues with light water staining.) Original publisher's buff wrappers, upper with lithographic title and six vignettes of the gold fields (rebacked, fore-edge of upper wrapper with some loss, not touching images, insect? damage towards top edge of upper wrapper touching one image, lower wrapper with minor loss to fore-edge). Provenance: J.E. Moxon (signature to title-page). -- [With:] Samuel Thomas Gill [Part the First Containing 24 Sketches of the Victoria Gold Diggings and Diggers as they are]. [Melbourne: Macartney & Galbraith, 1853]. Oblong small 2° (268 x 332mm). 20 of 24 uncoloured lithographic plates, title and artist's signature within the image, tipped onto blank sheets. (Lacking title-page and 4 lithographic plates, occasional dust soiling and spotting, mainly to margin.) Later card covers, titled in watercolour and ink on upper cover (rebacked, upper cover now loose).
FIRST EDITION OF TULLOCH'S RARE WORK ON THE GOLD FIELDS: the 'first substantial illustrated account of the Victorian diggings unquestionably his best and most enduring work' (Wantrup). Accompanied by a bound set of lithographic plates illustrating the diggings and the diggers by S.T. Gill 'the most famous artist of the goldfields and one of the most significant interpreters of Australian life in the colonial era' (Wantrup). Ferguson 17391, 9920; Wantrup 253, cf. 245.
Ham's Five Views of the Gold Fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria. Melbourne: Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong small 2° (272 x 427mm). Title, 5 tinted lithographic plates with original tissue guards, text on facing leaf. (Tear to fore-edge of title-page, lower fore-edge of title-page and first three sheets frayed, some dust soiling and spotting, original tissues with light water staining.) Original publisher's buff wrappers, upper with lithographic title and six vignettes of the gold fields (rebacked, fore-edge of upper wrapper with some loss, not touching images, insect? damage towards top edge of upper wrapper touching one image, lower wrapper with minor loss to fore-edge). Provenance: J.E. Moxon (signature to title-page). -- [With:] Samuel Thomas Gill [Part the First Containing 24 Sketches of the Victoria Gold Diggings and Diggers as they are]. [Melbourne: Macartney & Galbraith, 1853]. Oblong small 2° (268 x 332mm). 20 of 24 uncoloured lithographic plates, title and artist's signature within the image, tipped onto blank sheets. (Lacking title-page and 4 lithographic plates, occasional dust soiling and spotting, mainly to margin.) Later card covers, titled in watercolour and ink on upper cover (rebacked, upper cover now loose).
FIRST EDITION OF TULLOCH'S RARE WORK ON THE GOLD FIELDS: the 'first substantial illustrated account of the Victorian diggings unquestionably his best and most enduring work' (Wantrup). Accompanied by a bound set of lithographic plates illustrating the diggings and the diggers by S.T. Gill 'the most famous artist of the goldfields and one of the most significant interpreters of Australian life in the colonial era' (Wantrup). Ferguson 17391, 9920; Wantrup 253, cf. 245.