Sydney in 1848 by Joseph Fowles - 1973

Ure Smith with National Trust, Australia (NSW) Sydney 1973 . 24.0 x 18.0cms, 104pp, 40 b/w engravings, very good paperback & cover Fowles produced this book to correct England's erroneous and discreditable notions about Sydney and New South Wales. Morton Herman, the 20th century architectural historian, has written a foreward.

Ure Smith with National Trust, Australia (NSW) Sydney 1973 . 24.0 x 18.0cms, 104pp, 40 b/w engravings, very good paperback & cover Fowles produced this book to correct England's erroneous and discreditable notions about Sydney and New South Wales. Morton Herman, the 20th century architectural historian, has written a foreward.

Ure Smith with National Trust, Australia (NSW) Sydney 1973 . 24.0 x 18.0cms, 104pp, 40 b/w engravings, very good paperback & cover Fowles produced this book to correct England's erroneous and discreditable notions about Sydney and New South Wales. Morton Herman, the 20th century architectural historian, has written a foreward.

Ure Smith, Sydney 1962 . 29.0 x 21.5cms, 104pp, 40 b/w engravings, very good hardcover with very good- dustwrapper (archivally reinforce folds, some edgwear) Fowles produced this book to correct England's erroneous and discreditable notions about Sydney and New South Wales. Morton Herman, the 20th century architectural historian, has written a foreward.

Sydney, Ure Smith, (1966).. Facsimile Edition; Demy 4to; pp. iv, 104; illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, numerous full page illustrations, annotations to plates, key to street plates, index; original cloth, dustjacket, some flecking to page edges, tape marks on endpapers, bookplate on half title page, a good copy.

Sydney; Ure Smith; 1962.. Facsimile Edition; Demy 4to; pp. iv, 104; illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, numerous full page illustrations, annotations to plates, key to street plates, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, dustjacket chipped and worn, previous owner's name on front endpaper, bookplate of Alexander Hepburn Stone tipped in on half title page, good copy.

Sydney Australia: Ure Smith, 1966. Facsimile of the Original Text and Copper-Plate engravings of its principal streets, public building, churchs, chapels, from drawings by John Fowles. Foreward by Mortonn Herman. 104 pages. 8 1/2 in x 11 in. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate. Further illustrated with numerous more full page b/w plates. Endpapers illustrated with facsimiles of newspapepr articles.. Black cloth, gilt ttiles. Pages v/g condittion. Turquoise Dust jacket illustrated on upper cover. White titles. Edges and corners liglty worn. DJ price clipped. VG+/GOOD+. Hard Cover.

Hong Kong: White Lotus Press, 1973. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.56. Sydney in 1848

Sydney: D. Wall, 76 York Street, n.d. but, 1848. Boards stained and spotted.. Quarto, with full page copper plate engravings throughout, owner's name "Alfred C. Johnson"; a good copy in the original pink papered boards, preserved in a blue folding quarter morocco book-form box, lettered to the spine. First edition, first issue of Australia's first work devoted to architecture, showing the Georgian heritage of Sydney at a time when it was a city of just 50,000 inhabitants: 'invaluable for the early topography of Sydney' (Ferguson). Joseph Fowles arrived in Sydney in 1838 and this is without doubt his most important work, providing remarkably detailed information on the buildings of mid-nineteenth-century Sydney. As Morton Herman puts it, 'the Sydney he records was a lovely colonial town of clean, chaste Georgian architecture. Whole streets were pleasant compositions of harmonious buildings, few of them over three stories high, all clearly designed, well mannered and an orderly delight to the eye...'… Read More