The boards' edges are lightly chipped and bumped, as are the head and tail of the spine; the front paste down has a nearly full page, very attractive book plate; the spine is cracked on page 97, though the binding throughout the book remains solid; the errata page has a closed, very short tear along the outer edge. The last page remains uncut, followed by three pages of advertisements by the publisher. All the other pages have been cut with clinical precision bar page 125, which has loss to its outer edge, the missing corner attached to page 127. The tail of pp 126 to 128 have been short cut by the printer. The copy's worst fault is that there is regular, intermittent and sometimes quite heavy foxing throughout the book. The previous owner has provided a defacto index of sorts: in front of the title page, neatly tipped in, and in beautiful handwriting are two sheets of page references with the heading: The Author: John Phillips. there ia also as a loose insert another sheet chronicling John Phillips' movements, also providing the page reference. 245 pages, plus 9 pages of plates. From Design & Art Australia "Colonial Victorian sketcher and pastoralist. Despite mixed success as a pastoralist in regional Victoria, the landscape and rural life inspired John Phillips' artistic career and his sketches variously featured local Aborigines, life on the sheep station and a posthumous portrait of the bushranger Daniel 'Mad Dog' Morgan drawn just after he was shot on a neighbouring property....."