Edward Gibbon Wakefield. The Man Himself by his great-granddaughter Irma O'Connor

Publisher: Selwyn & Blount, London, 1928 Good - some fading to spine Orange board cover. 230mm x 150mm 286pp. Frontis and 15 b/w plates. some foxing Dust wrapper - front flap is detached but present, chipping, tears and some loss to front, spine and edges.

Biography of the man who conceived the plan for forming the colonies of South Australia and New Zealand Selected chapter titles: The Seeds of Childhood; From Paris to Newgate; "A Letter from Sydney"; The First Experiment; A Land without a Master; A Stirring Drama of Colonisation; War to the Knife; A Colony in the Making; The Man behind the Founder.