The Vineyards of Victoria
Adelaide, Australia: Sullivan's Cove, 1980. Ward, Ebenezer. The Vineyards of Victoria: as visited by Ebenezer Ward in 1864. (facsimile of 1864 ed) Sullivan's Cove: Adelaide, Australia 1980. Folio (330x205mm) HC [2],xii1,[1],102,[2]pp. (Limited No 123 of 750). VG/VG dj sm rep tear, d.e verso sm spotting
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WARD, Ebenezer. (1837 - 1917)
The Vineyards of Victoria as visited by Ebenezer Ward in 1864
Adelaide : Sullivan's Cove, 1980. Limited facsimile of a series of articles published in The Age in 1864. Number #123 of 750 copies. Printed by Griffin Press, Adelaide.
Folio (330x205mm) pictorial dust jacket, blue cloth boards, gilt titled spine, heavy cream paper, [2],xiii,[1],102,[2]pp. Top edge of dust jacket verso and top edges, very small area of spotting/foxing; small closed tear to the dust jacket top edge; else near fine.
¶ Ward was a journalist and politician in colonial South Australia. He emigrated from Britain to Melbourne in 1859 and began working for The Age newspaper. He then moved to South Australia and in 1861 he wrote a series of articles for the Adelaide Advertiser on the vineyards and orchards of South Australia. In 1864 he returned to Melbourne and undertook a similar commission for The Age, writing a series of articles on a number of the vineyards of Victoria. The articles provide a valuable and unique account of the emerging, pre-phylloxera Victorian wine industry with descriptions of the founders of the Geelong, Western District, Ballarat, and Bendigo. The series is incomplete as neither the Yarra Valley nor Sunbury are mentioned; perhaps because Ward returned to South Australia to take up a new position. Unlike the South Australian articles, the Victorian articles were apparently not published in pamphlet form.
Scarce. A near fine copy.
§ OCLC records two holdings in the USA, fourteen in Australia, and one in the UK.
§ Gabler 42792; not in Noling;
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