FIFTY YEARS IN THE MAKING OF AUSTRALIAN HISTORY . by PARKES, Sir. HENRY

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1892.. First Edition; 8vo; pp. xvi, 680; portrait frontispiece, two illustrations in text, appendices, index, original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, some wear to extremities. heavy foxing to first few pages, light foxing to fore-edge and occasions throughout, otherwise good copy. Parkes, writing in his preface with perhaps a little modesty describes the book as "...not a history nor yet an autobiography. It leaves my life still to be written, should it be deemed worth the writing."