Ure Smith Pty. Ltd, 1970, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, First, Illustrated By: Frank Broadhurst

introduction. Text illustrated with contemporary sketches and Frank Broadhurst's period drawings, illustrations are halftone. Illustrated endpapers, which is showing a illustration of "going to Botany". Grey coloured boards with gilt coloured titles on the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, again showing sketches from Sydney 1850s, black coloured titles on the front panel and backstrip. "Here is a lusty, Hogarthian picture of life in the Sydney of the 1850s --- a dirty, intimate, hard drinking, evil smelling town of no more than 75,000 people and no less than 400 pubs. Swaggering gold - diggers and staggering drunks, brawling housewives and brazen harlots, pickpockets and publicans, cabbies and constables, soldiers and sailors, mistresses and maids, speak to us here in their own vivid words, faithfully preserved by Charles Adam Corbyn, a police court reporter of the day." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. There is in minor shelf wear evident on the bottom edge and the corners are slightly rubbed. On the front paste down and free front end page, there is a small piece missing 1" x .5". The front endpapers have a sun line running down the full-length of the page. There is minor rubbing of the dustwrapper and there is also some very small chipping along the top edge of the dustwrapper. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [4], 102, [4] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Frank Broadhurst. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism; ISBN: 0725400005. ISBN/EAN: 9780725400002. Inventory No: 0100218.