Hansards Pocket Peerage Publisher: T C Newby Date: 1854 Further Information: Signed by John Pascoe Fawknernon-fictionThis volume is a genealogical and biographical reference directory of the British nobility. It was designed as a compact, portable handbook detailing the titles, lineages, coats of arms, and family histories of the peers of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as bishops and baronets. While Thomas Curson Hansard is famous for establishing the printing of Britain's official parliamentary debates (Hansard), his firm also published these highly practical, condensed pocket guides for politicians, gentlemen, and libraries who needed quick access to the details of high society and parliamentary ranks.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, hansards pocket peerage, thomas cautley newby, thomas curson hansard junior, john pascoe fawkner

p.324.non-fictionA biography of Canadian politician Lord Strathconacanada - history, canada - politics and government

Hard cover book, A Sydney-Side Saxon Author: Pen Name Rolf Boldrewood For (Thomas Alexander Browne) Publisher: Macmillan And Co Date: 1891 Blue cloth hardcover and spine with spine lettering in black texter. The spine has a Library label with inscription.fiction"A Sydney-Side Saxon" is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood (pen name of Thomas Alexander Browne, 1826–1915), first published in 1891 by Macmillan & Co. as No. 124 in Macmillan's Colonial Library. It's a single-volume work (unlike many of his other novels, which ran to three volumes) of 12 chapters, centring on the Claythorpe family of "Applegate" station and the pastoral world of colonial New South Wales squatters, station life, courtship, and the social texture of rural Australia in the late 19th century. Chapter headings such as "Job Claythorpe, of Applegate, ploughman", "Jesse Claythorpe, crowboy", and "Jack Leighton, swagman" reflect its episodic, character-driven structure typical of Boldrewood's pastoral fiction. Boldrewood drew heavily on his own experience some 25 years as a squatter and pastoralist in Victoria and the Riverina, followed by decades as a police magistrate and goldfields warden in NSW which gives his fiction its documentary feel for colonial bush life.book, a sydney-side saxon, rolf boldrewood, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, great ocean road

Hard cover book. Helianthus Author: Ouida/Marie Louise de la Ramée Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited Date: 1908 Further Information: Black Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in gilt. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionThis novel Helianthus is a political satire set in an invented Mediterranean kingdom of the same name, whose capital is Helios. King John of Gunderode rules as an autocrat behind constitutional forms, with a muzzled press and police spies everywhere. His second son, Prince Elim, Duke of Othyris, is a humane, philosophical man who hates soldiering. At a military review he halts his cavalry rather than trample peasants who have strayed onto the field, and the crowd adores him for it. The King and Elim's stiff elder brother, the Crown Prince, are furious. The visiting Emperor Julius of the neighbouring 'Guthones' is a pious, vain militarist who is eyeing the kingdom's sea. He gets Elim off the hook, partly to humiliate him. A review from the time calls it a novel with a purpose, whose author's zeal sometimes tips into vituperation, and which lacks the romantic charm of Under Two Flags. In the US it was published as A Prince of Europe (Helianthus).book, under two flags, ouida, maria louise ramé, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, great ocean road

Hard cover book. The Fortress Author: Hugh Walpole Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited Date: 1934 Further Information: Dark green cloth, blind-stamped border and “W” monogram to binding. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionThe Fortress is the third novel in Walpole’s Herries Chronicles, which follow the branches of the Herries family in the 19th-century Lake District. The story centres on a bitter feud between the branch led by Judith Paris and the one led by Walter Herries. Walter wants to drive Judith and Jennifer Herries out, so he builds a great mansion, the Fortress, on a hill overlooking their house. Elizabeth, Walter’s kind daughter, is caught between family hostility and her love for Jennifer’s son John. John is then persecuted by his wife’s brother, which leads to a tragic confrontation. The saga covers about fifty years, from a summer fair at Keswick to Queen Victoria’s coronation.book, the fortress, hugh walpole, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, great ocean road

Hard cover book. Poetical Works of John Milton Author: John Milton Editor: David Masson Publisher: MacMillan & Co Date: 1891 Further Information: Blue Cloth hardcover with lettering in gilt on spine and embossed emblem to front cover. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionThis work is a single-volume collection of Milton’s poetry with introductions by David Masson. Its centrepiece is Paradise Lost, which chronicles Satan’s temptation of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from Eden. The Globe Edition also carries his other major works, including Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Comus, Lycidas and the sonnets, as well as his shorter poems. Masson’s introductions place each work in its historical and biographical setting.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, book, poetical works of john milton, john milton

Hard cover book. Vera Author: Elizabeth von Arnim (Mary Annette Beauchamp) Publisher: MacMillan & Co Date: 1921 Further Information: Green Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionThe leading character is Lucy Entwhistle, a naive young woman, who marries the widower Everard Wemyss. His house is haunted by the memory of his dead first wife, Vera, whom Lucy suspects of suicide. She gradually realises that he demands total intellectual and emotional servitude. Both are reeling from recent loss when they meet and fall in love quickly. The novel draws on the author’s second marriage, to Frank Russell, and is closer to a nightmare than her usual humorous, romantic books. It is a study of coercive control and domestic tyranny, written as a black comedy.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, book, vera

Hard cover book. Vanessa Author: Hugh Walpole Publisher: MacMillan & Co Date: 1933 Further Information: Red Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionVanessa (1933) is the final instalment of Walpole’s Herries Chronicle, with the family saga now in the early twentieth century. The Herries Chronicle is a multi generational saga set in the Lake District. The earlier volumes are Rogue Herries (1930), Judith Paris (1931) and The Fortress (1932). The Project Gutenberg Australia text lists Vanessa as Adam Paris’s daughter and Judith Paris’s granddaughter. The novel ends just before the First World War, with Vanessa’s love story.warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, vanessa, h walpole, hugh walpole

Hard cover book. England Their England Author: A G MacDonell Publisher: MacMillan & Co Date: 1933 Further Information: Red Cloth hardcover with lettering to spine in white. The spine has a black cloth repair lettering hand written also a Library label with an inscription.fictionThis work is an affectionately satirical comic novel of 1920s English urban and rural society, framed as a travel memoir by a young Scotsman, Donald Cameron, who was invalided home from the Western Front and is made by his father’s will to live in England. A Welshman commissions him to write a book on the English as an outsider would see them. His research takes him through literary journalists and minor poets, a country-house weekend, work as private secretary to an MP, the League of Nations and a village cricket match. The cricket match is the most celebrated episode and a large part of the book’s enduring appeal. The book is thought to be a roman à clef: Mr Hodge is a caricature of the poet and editor Sir John Squire, and the cricket team is modelled on Squire’s Invalids club.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, england their england, a g macdonell

Hard cover book. The Iron Heel Author: Jack London Publisher: Mills & Boon Date: 1929 Further Information: A plain volume bound in pale blue cloth, with a stuck-on library classification label ("PAT FIC LON") on the spine and no visible date, edition statement, or printer's imprint on the pages shown the copyright/date page. There's no gilt decoration, no illustrated boards, and no dust jacket. fictionThe Iron Heel is a dystopian novel set in a future America where a rising socialist movement provokes a brutal oligarchic dictatorship. It is told through a manuscript found centuries later, in which Avis Everhard describes her husband Ernest’s failed struggle against the ‘Iron Heel’. Anthony Meredith, a scholar writing around 2600 AD, supplies an introduction and long footnotes. Meredith sometimes corrects Avis and sometimes shows his own limited grasp of the period, and London uses that layering to comment on both. The book’s foreword reveals that the Everhards die as martyrs.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, the iron heel, jack london