Item #081146 A REPLY TO MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE BY THOMAS CHUCK. 1877. Anthony Trollope, Thomas Chuck.

A REPLY TO MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE BY THOMAS CHUCK. 1877.

[Cover title]. "One story is good till another is told", or a reply to Mr. Anthony Trollope, on that part of his work, entitled "Australia and New Zealand", relating to the colony of Victoria. Pp. 48, photocopied; small square 4to; navy binder's cloth, the upper board lettered in gilt; The Silverbridge Press, London, 1989. *This copy bound for Lance O. Tingay. Originally privately published in Liverpool, New South Wales, in 1877 [see Ferguson 8187]. The author, Thomas Foster Chuck, arrived in Melbourne in the middle of the century, and opened a photographic studio in the Royal Arcade, Melbourne, in 1864. His intention in publishing this 'lecture' was 'to explain some of the mistakes Mr. Trollope has been led into by biased or simple informants, and to correct those statements that need correcting' - particularly regarding the Victorian section of Trollope's book. Item #081146

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