THE AMATEUR BOOK COLLECTOR.
Volume II, numbers 1-10, September 1951 to June 1952; Volume III, numbers 1-10 (5-6 being a 12 page double number), September 1952 to June 1953; Volume IV, numbers 1-10 September 1953 to June 1954 (leaves quite browned in Volume IV); Volumes II and III each 8 pages, (Volume IV/l 12 pages), illustrated; folio; thirty issued bound together in qr. blue cloth, beige papered boards, the cloth flecked, split at foot of spine, the boards lightly soiled; W. B. Thorsen, Chicago, 1951-1954. *Containing the first appearance, in 26 of the issues, of George Mackaness's Book Collecting in Australia. '. . . His interest in historical research led Mackaness and his wife into the by-ways of book-collecting. With limited money (he was earning \'a3960 a year when he retired in May 1946), he built up probably the largest private collection of Australiana by the 1960s. In seventeen articles in the Amateur Book Collector (Chicago) in 1951-52 he described some of his finds including a leatherbound copy of the pirated edition of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers published in Launceston by Henry Dowling in 1839, and the journals of the Canadian patriots transported to New South Wales in 1838. He traced the Australian descendants of one, Joseph Moreau, and found a mint copy of Leon (L\'e9andre) Ducharme's Journal d'un Exil\'e9 Politique aux Terres Australes (Montreal, 1845), which he translated and produced in 1944. Another find was the manuscript of George Augustus Robinson's account of his journey into south-eastern Australia in 1844. He also published two collections of his articles and essays in the field, The Art of Book-Collecting in Australia (1956) and Bibliomania (1965). . . .' [Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, 1986]. Item #143310
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