Australia.- Terry (Frederic Charles) Landscape Scenery, Illustrating

Australia.- Terry (Frederic Charles) Landscape Scenery, Illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson, New South Wales, first edition, engraved title page and 38 steel-engraved plates, without numbered plate 24 (as often), errata slip tipped-in, some foxing, hinges starting, cracking to gutter, original decorated cloth, gilt, some staining to upper cover, rubbed, [Ferguson, 15440; Wantrup, 259a], oblong 4to, Sydney & Melbourne, 1855. *** Frederic Terry arrived in Australia during the height of the Gold Rush and headed straight to the diggings in the Hunter Valley, and began working as an artist in Sydney by 1852. In 1854, Sydney publisher John Sands commissioned a series of sketches from Terry to capitalise on the emergent market for view books. Terry submitted 39 sketches to be engraved in London, however, due to the geographical distance between publisher and engraver, the plates were attributed to 'Fleury'. The album, consisting of 38 of the 39 plates, was published under the title 'The Australian Keepsake', and sold for 25 shillings. It was considered a work of genius by The Sydney Morning Herald.

Estimate:£300

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