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R.D. BEESTON and M.C.B. MASSIE, illustrator
St. Ivo and the Ashes: A Correct, True and Particular History of the Hon. Ivo Bligh's Crusade in Australia
Melbourne: Australian Press Agency, [1883]. 8vo., [ii], 22p., with 2 preliminary and 4 final advertisement leaves, 11 photo-lithographic plates after Massie (some spotting), modern green buckram, original pink pictorial front wrapper preserved (slightly discoloured). Provenance: J.B. [?]Russell (contemporary signature on title).
A RARE AND RESONANT TITLE. As the preface makes clear, this tour book was designed primarily as a vehicle for Massie's pen-and-ink sketches. Made during the progress of the series, they incorporate the English lion and Australian kangaroo in comic combat. In fact, the series was tied, England and Australia both winning two of the four matches. But it had been originally intended there should be three matches only. When England won two of these, "a bevy of Melbourne ladies", headed by a Miss Florence Murphy, presented the England Captain, the Hon. Ivo Bligh, with a small urn containing the ashes of a burned-out cricket stump, now the game's most valued trophy. Allen 128; Padwick 4408.
St. Ivo and the Ashes: A Correct, True and Particular History of the Hon. Ivo Bligh's Crusade in Australia
Melbourne: Australian Press Agency, [1883]. 8vo., [ii], 22p., with 2 preliminary and 4 final advertisement leaves, 11 photo-lithographic plates after Massie (some spotting), modern green buckram, original pink pictorial front wrapper preserved (slightly discoloured). Provenance: J.B. [?]Russell (contemporary signature on title).
A RARE AND RESONANT TITLE. As the preface makes clear, this tour book was designed primarily as a vehicle for Massie's pen-and-ink sketches. Made during the progress of the series, they incorporate the English lion and Australian kangaroo in comic combat. In fact, the series was tied, England and Australia both winning two of the four matches. But it had been originally intended there should be three matches only. When England won two of these, "a bevy of Melbourne ladies", headed by a Miss Florence Murphy, presented the England Captain, the Hon. Ivo Bligh, with a small urn containing the ashes of a burned-out cricket stump, now the game's most valued trophy. Allen 128; Padwick 4408.
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