Description
Old Melbourne Memories by Rolf Boldrewood, 1896 (Second Edition)
Old Melbourne Memories by Rolf Boldrewood (the pen name of Thomas Alexander Browne), published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London, 1896. This is the Second Edition, issued as part of Macmillan’s Colonial Library.
Bound in cloth, measuring 18.5cm x 12.5cm, with 259 pages.
The book offers Browne’s recollections of early colonial Melbourne, painting a vivid picture of life, society, and the rapid changes of 19th-century Australia. A valuable piece of Australiana, it combines memoir with social history, and is considered an important work by one of Australia’s best-known colonial writers.
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