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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers

Australia
About Item: Adelaide: Paris Nesbit (to Number 15), then John Newton Wood, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide, Paris Nesbit (to Number 15), then John Newton Wood, 1900 and 1901. Foolscap folio, [242] pages. Each issue drop-title as issued, in contemporary flush-cut cloth-backed papered boards; cloth renewed; boards lightly worn at the extremities and a little marked; the contents are in fine condition. Number 32, the first one in Volume 2, is a different format - shorter and wider - and the leading margins are folded back 40 mm. 'The small religious newspaper "Morning" was founded in 1900 by the gifted but unbalanced lawyer, Paris Nesbit. The newspaper was initially used largely as a vehicle for his personal views on religion and Adelaide society. Nesbit unashamedly stated that the newspaper was his own voice and would be run "as Christ would if He were subject to the present limitations of my faculties" ... Nesbit and his family - in particular his sister Agnes Benham - were interested in the "new thought"… Read More
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