Author: MacDonnell, Freda.
Title: The Glebe: Portrait and Places.
Description: Sydney Ure Smith, 1975. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good jacket), minor edgewear jacket (reverse side lightly foxed). 136 pp. A local history of the Sydney inner western suburb of Glebe. The Glebe (or St. Phillip's Glebe) was 400 acres given to the Church of England (Reverend Richard Johnson) by Governor Arthur Phillip in the earliest years at Port Jackson. It was church property until it evolved into one of Sydney's fashionable 19th -century suburbs, then a shabby and over-crowded area, before finally becoming trendy again. ISBN: 0725402296

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