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Shire of Toodyay > Records

BOOK, TOM MORRIS'S ERROR

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1885

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Books & Newspapers

Overview

Book "Tom Morris's Error" by Emma Leslie.
Red book with a floral pattern on cover containing black and white illustrations. Cover is separating from the main print block. Most of the pages are now missing, currently there are only about 35 pages remaining. (Final page number is 154)
Book of short stories. Title of book and first story Tom Morris's Error. The list of contents shows the book also contained 8 other stories with different titles, all of which originally appeared in volumes of Little Folk and Quiver which were by this time out of print.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.371

Item type

Material

Width

11.5000 cm

Height or length

18 cm

Inscriptions and markings

Handwritten inscription inside front cover "John Oliver Goldsmith Whitfield, Prize Xmas 1885, Dec.18th".
A second handwritten inscription is on the following page "Oliver Whitfield Prize Xmas 1885"
Handwritten on back cover- Anita Whitfield
Published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., London, Paris and New York. (not dated)

Year

1885

Primary significance criteria

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