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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  319
• Lot Description:
  Whitelocke, Nelson Paget (1861 – 1927). A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side
  20 Sketches drawn, lithographed and published by Nelson P. Whitelocke. Folio, 19 of 20 tinted lithographs (versos blank), each with a leaf of letterpress description, original half morocco (spine relined) and cloth sides, title lettered in gilt on front cover “The Streets | of Sydney | from the | Shady Side...”, edition binder’s ticket of “W.E. Smith Bookbinder Sydney”. Sydney, Nelson P. Whitelocke, 1885.
• Notes:
  Rare. Poet, journalist, artist, draughtsman, London-born Whitelocke was representative of the active social conscience that animated the enlightened members of mid-Victorian society. From Dickens to Mayhew these writers and, less frequently, artists exposed the brutal underbelly of the richest society the world had ever known. Whitelocke was working at the same time as the high profile journalist, Stanley James, who wrote as ‘The Vagabond’ in the Melbourne Argus describing Melbourne street life in the style of exposé made famous by the Henry Mayhew’s account of the horrors of London street life. But Whitelocke did not have the Vagabond’s prominence and, in contrast to his fellow-traveller from Melbourne, his work is virtually unknown to collectors and academics. This book is, certainly, of great rarity on the market. Published by the artist himself and no doubt ill-distributed, that is no surprise. Ferguson, 18490.
• Estimate:
  A$800 - 1,200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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