Author: AN OLD COLONIST " FINN, EDMUND ".
Title: The "Garryowen" Sketches. Historical, Local and Personal.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 137, with 5 pages of ads; b/w adverts, textured red cloth boards with minor rubbing and scuffing, title in gilt on front board and spine, a good copy. See Ferguson 9608 (wrappered copy) Melbourne; Alex. M'Kinley and Co. Printers; 1880. Twelve sketches of early Melbourne, seven of them dealing with the Irish community, reprinted from daily newspapers.

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