Author: MARTIN, PATCHETT.
Title: FERNSHAWE. Sketches in Prose and Verse.
Description: 4to; pp. xii+216; b/w frontispiece, original decorated cloth, title lettered in gilt on front board, cloth damaged along edge of front board and spine, all page edges gilt, previous owner's name on title page, good copy. Melbourne, Walker May & Co., 1882. Martin was the founding editor of the "Melbourne Review" and this somewhat eccentric compilation reproduces some of his work from that journal in an enthusiastic celebration involving much red ruling and printers' devices.

Keywords: australian literature fernshawe poetry