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JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER'S COPY of LORD MACAULAY. SIGNED in full by JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER in black ink on ffep. Very faint signature, the "Fawkner" portion has almost completely faded, though still legible. John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869), founder of Melbourne, Australia; early pioneer, businessman, politician. He is the namesake of two Melbourne suburbs, Fawkner & Pascoe Vale. VOLUME 1 only (of 2). FIRST EDITION, published 1860. Frontispiece engraving of Macaulay with facsimile signature printed below. With erratum sheet bound in following contents page. Bound in publisher's original blind-stamped brown cloth. Fair only, this volume lacks top half of spine, damage to foot of spine, covers are moderately soiled & stained & worn, hinges tender, binding cracked at page 160, light marginal staining throughout, otherwise a reading copy only. The value obviously lies in the fact that it was Fawkner's own personal copy of a much read/used book, with his ownership signature. Fawkner lived a fascinating life. "He was born in 1792 in Cripplegate, London. His father was convicted of receiving stolen goods & in 1801 was sentenced to fourteen years transportation. With his mother & younger sister, Elizabeth, 11-year old John accompanied his father to the new settlement to be formed in Bass Strait. They joined H.M.S. Calcutta at Portsmouth & sailed on 29 April 1803 in company with the Ocean, carrying a number of free settlers & stores. After Port Phillip was abandoned & the convicts & settlers were moved to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), the Fawkners lived in a primitive hut at the new settlement on Sullivan's Cove, suffering great hardship & continuing shortages of food. During one period when scurvy was rife, young Fawkner lost the use of his right leg for some months. In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land, to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprise. Fawkner's party sailed to Port Phillip Bay & up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne. Fawkner himself landed at Hobson's Bay in October 1835 & at once began to lay the foundations of a fortune that grew to £20,000 in his first four years on the mainland. In January 1838 he added to his trade of hotel-keeping that of newspaper proprietor. His Melbourne Advertiser was handwritten on four pages of foolscap for nine numbers until a press & type arrived from Tasmania, & it was then printed weekly until suppressed because Fawkner had no licence. In February 1839, with a licence, he began the Port Phillip Patriot & Melbourne Advertiser; this later became a daily, & he ran it in conjunction with a bookselling & stationery business. In 1839 Fawkner also added to his already considerable land holdings a 780-acre (316 ha) property known as Pascoe Vale. As a man of property & influence, Fawkner took an active & leading part in the political & social struggles of the time. Fawkner died on 4 September 1869 at his home in Smith Street, Collingwood, the grand old man of contemporary Victoria." (largely from: Hugh Anderson, 'Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792 - 1869)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp.368-370). Thomas Babington Macaulay (Lord Macaulay) (1800-1859) was a British poet, historian & Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist & reviewer, & on British history. He also held political office as Secretary at War between 1839 & 1841 & Paymaster-General between 1846 & 1848. He was made Secretary at War in 1839 by Lord Melbourne & was sworn of the Privy Council the same year. The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay was printed in 1860 by Spottiswoode & Co., London. 395pp + 24pp ads. Extremely RARE & UNIQUE SIGNED COPY from the library of the founder of Melbourne. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001189
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Titel: The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay ...
Verlag: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1860
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Fair
Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
Auflage: First Edition
