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Pp. viii+312(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus l6 plates, appendices, notes, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges lightly rubbed and split, two small surface grazes near bottom edge of back panel; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, lower hinge starting at foot, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Cheshire, Melbourne, 1965. First edition. *'David Syme was the strongest individual force in newspaper publishing and editing in nineteenth century Australia. This Life of the man tells his story from the time of his arrival in Melbourne, 1852, until his death, February 1908' [wrapper blurb].