The Kings of the Reefs. A poem: in one hundred and seventeen cantos.

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Melbourne, Spectator Publishing 1891. Large octavo. Three engraved portraits as plates, wood engraved ills through the text after Percy Spence but I wouldn't like to insist that they were designed for this work.The blank facing the title is inscribed: Presented by the author, to his beloved wife, Lydia Carey. As a memento of her valuable help in the composition of the work, and of the interest she took in its progress, from the commencement, to its publication J. Carey. Memo: This copy was bound in London in 1892 and presented as the above on the 17th June, 1893.This special binding is curious in that is a standard publisher's decorative cloth binding - pretty, completely inappropriate and the kind that appeared on hundreds of books. It is blue cloth in a sand grain with different black and ochre geometric bands along top and bottom of spine and front board, an irrelevant spray of flowers on the front and lettering in gilt on spine and front. The edges of the boards are bevelled and all edges of the text block are gilded, the endpapers are a grey floral pattern. There is wear to tips, the hinges have short splits, the front inner hinge has been taped. The Rev Carey was a missionary in Fiji from 1859 to 1875. He was there, as he says, at a unique time, when many natives had learnt to read and write but before the first-hand connection to pre-missionary Fiji was severed, and Carey took advantage of this. He collected, offering prizes, written accounts by natives of Fijian history, myths and customs and has used them here to construct what he describes as something of a Fijian Hiawatha - though comparisons with Tennyson's workings of Arthurian legend may also be valid. The poem is a history of some 130 years of Fijian history, from the first appearance of whites, interspersed with myth, "manners and customs of the people, with words of wisdom from their sages." The hero is Fiji's great king Seru or Thakombau (Cacobou). Loose inside is a broadside (340x220mm) puff for the book which quotes press opinions. The only modern notice of the work that I have seen is Morris Miller's observation that this poem is "one of the longest written by an Australian author." *This item might cost more to post than quoted by abe.…

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Titre
The Kings of the Reefs. A poem: in one hundred and seventeen cantos.
Auteur
CAREY, Jesse.
État de l'article
very good
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hardcover

Richard Neylon

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