Collecting Australia’s Past by Douglas Baglin and Frances Wheelhouse

Collecting Australia’s Past

by Douglas Baglin and Frances Wheelhouse

Cassell Australia, 1981, [First Edition], ISBN 0726992801, colour black and white photographs and illustrations throughout, photographic title page, large hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription and details stamp on front endpaper and title page; dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping, minor discoloration to spine and top front edge (see photographs)

“Collecting Australia’s Past is a pictorial record of some of this memorabilia.  It includes utilitarian and decorative objects once used in the home – from the living-room to the laundry.  Silver, arts and crafts, clocks, lamps, toys, bells, musical instruments and Australian animals in the decorative arts are included.  Agricultural machinery and tools, blacksmith’s tools, snaring and hunting devices, transport equipment and the impedimenta of commercial enterprises now forgotten are also covered.”