Miscellaneous Papers and (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Hazell Watson and Viney Limited Date: 1935 Light blue leather embossed hardcover with a blue spine and lettering in gold. The spine has a Library label.fictionCharles Dickens (1812–1870) was one of the great English novelists of the Victorian era, famous for vivid characters, social criticism, and stories that were first published in serial form. He began as a journalist, rose to enormous popularity during his lifetime, and wrote major works such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations. The subject novel “Miscellaneous Papers” with excerpts from “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” collects mid 19th century essays on topics like agriculture, crime, education, capital punishment, and includes tributes to figures such as W.M. Thackeray and Adelaide Anne Procter. Appended to the novel is “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” Dickens's 1870 unfinished novel about Edwin Drood's disappearance amid opium addiction, obsession, and intrigue in Cloisterham, involving various suspects like John Jasper.book, the old curiosity shop, charles dickens, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, 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

"The only comprehensive Australian Gardening Book ever compiled."Used by a resident of the Kiewa Valley.Blue hard covered book - title, author are not on the front or back cover. The Title is 'in gold' on the spine and at the base of the spine is ''Home Library" also 'in gold'. The book has black and white plates illustrating the text.gardening, plants, australian horticulture

A hard back book with dark blue covers. It contains recipes, hints and table arrangements.recipes cookery domestic

This book was used by new inductees into the Air Force to assist them with there training in 1939-1941. Rectangular in shape. The book is blue in colour with a green dust cover. There are 93 pages.The complete flying course by N.ROY HARBEN D.F.C. A manual of flying tuition. C. Arthur Pearson, limited

Blue hardcover book with numerous illustrations.english architecture, ballarat technical art school, the architecture club

This book is part of a collection of books, photos and memorabilia donated from the Chatham-Holmes family collection. The book belonged to Harry Holmes.Red hard covered book of 320 pages. The front cover is impressed with the Hodder & Stoughton initials and an art deco design. The spine is printed in black with the title, author and the publisher. On the first page is the booksellers seal and the names, addresses and dates of two people. The book is entitled 'The Thunderer, a Romance of Napoleon and Josephine'.First page Written in pencil - Rb Telford?, 138 Webster St Ballarat, May 1930 Written in black pen - H.S. Holmes, Launchley, Jan 1934 On pages 31 & 63 written in pencil - Rb Telford? harry holmes, chatham-holmes family collection, the thunderer, e barrington

384 p. : ill. ; red cover embossed in black with geometric design. Title printed in red on gold rectangle on front cover, and on spine.fictionFictionalised account of the life of Richard Hunne, an English merchant who during the reign of Henry VIII, and just prior to the English Reformation, fell into dispute with the Catholic Church, was accused of heresy, and died in mysterious circumstances in prison.fiction, george e.sargent, robert hisshion

314 p. : grey-green cover, title and authors' names embossed in red.fictionTen short stories set in the French Revolution.fiction, french revolution, agnes castle, egerton castle

294 p. : pale blue cover embossed with pattern of leaves/treesfictionBook centres around the life of Joseph Quinney, a London antique dealer. Explores Quinney's relationship with his family, his business rivalries, love, and romance. fiction, antique dealers, horace annesley vachell

144 p. : col. ill.fictionchildren's fiction, japanese culture

Hardcover book with colour image of a woman and a man. 191 pages. fictionRomance noveljuliet armstrong, romance, fiction

Hardcover book, 344 pages. Book has a grey cover.fictionRomance novel.robert william mackenna, romance, fiction, scotland - historical fiction

Illustrated textbook. bound with beige textured cloth cover. Title and authors stamped in black on front cover and spine. Also stamped on spine 'with illustrations' , edition and publishernon-fictionVintage illustrated textbook providing information to nurses on the principles and practice of 'modern' surgery as far as they directly concern them.nursing - study and teaching, surgical nursing - history