NISBET, HUME. - A Colonial Tramp. Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea.

Colonial Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xxii, 468 (last blank), 16 (advertisements); title page vignette, 41 b/w. plates, 11b/w. illustrations in text, later half leather binding, green title label on spine, title lettered in gilt on label, raised bands chips to edges of a couple of pages, institution stamp on edges of a few pages, bookplate on front endpaper, good sound copy. London; George Bell And Sons; 1898 (issued for circulation in India and the Colonies only). Hume Nisbet (1849 - 1923) first arrived in Melbourne at the age of sixteen, later he returned to Britain to study art. He became a prolific book illustrator and was commissioned by Cassell and Co. to visit Australia and New Guinea, contributing articles and sketches for Cassell's picturesque Australasia (1887-89). As well as "A Colonial Tramp", his autobiographical work he published some 17 novels.

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