Author: WALPOLE, J.P.
Title: Recollections and Historical Notices of Cambridge; preceded by a brief outline of schools and universities ..
Description: Sydney, printed by Kemp and Fairfax 1847. Octavo publisher's ribbed cloth with remnants of a printed label (spine top worn); xvi,191pp. Occasional spotting. ¶ Only edition? A push by the chaplain to Sydney's prisons for the establishment of a university in New South Wales, not only to provide such fond memories as are recorded here, but to dispense with the costly and painful separations necessary to benefit ‘colonial youth' and for the natural development of the colony.

Keywords: history education c19th Australia Cambridge University social sciences