The Australian Crusoes; Or, The Adventures of an English Settler and His Family in the Wilds of Australia / Charles Rowcroft
Book
512 pages. Illustrations. Includes engraved frontis and plates.
From the sixth London edition.
Inferior paper and printing.
Taking its name from Daniel Defoe's famous novel Robinson Crusoe, the perilous journey of an English settler in the wilderness of Australia, and detailing the actual progress, day by day, from the beginning, of the establishment of a colonist's farm.
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Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Frontier and pioneer lifePersonal narrativesDescription and travel1880sCheap book production
6-7/8 in
5-7/8 in
Charles Rowcroft
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
circa 1880
Publisher's Binding
Bound in mustard cloth with black stamping to cover of an Australian scene of a lurking animal watching a resting group of cattle. Spine black stamped in a leaf and acorn design with wide gilt title band. Plain endpapers.
Australia