Author: Cecil, Robert; Scott, Ernest; Gill, S. T. (illustrator).
Title: Lord Robert Cecil's Gold Fields Diary [Goldfields].
Description: Melbourne Melbourne University Press (MUP) in association with Oxford University Press, 1935. 1st ed. Hardback small, no jacket as issued, good condition, green cloth boards (gilt title cover & spine), good condition, black & white drawings, frontispiece, light foxing endpapers, pages lightly toned, corners front cover little bumped & rubbed, spine title little faded, minor edgewear, white correction mark front free flyleaf, minor edgewear. 44 pp. First edition. The diary of Lord Robert Cecil during his visit to the Victorian Goldfields in 1852. This very special little book gives a vivid look at the life of the diggers on Bendigo Creek and at Mount Alexander. Lady Gwendolen Cecil found the diary among the papers of her father, and arranged to have this copy printed. Introduction and notes by Ernest Scott. The illustrations are from drawings by S. T. Gill, except those of the Chief Commissioner's camp at Castlemaine (Mount Alexander), and the junction of Pegleg and Sailor’s Gully, which are from drawings by C. Rudson Read.

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