L. L. Smith, medico, writer, publisher, politician, litigant, showman, speculator, collector, vigneron, farmer, breeder and rider of racehorses, guiding hand for thirty years of Melbourne's great exhibition complex...The Audacious Adventures of Dr Louis Lawrence Smith is a captivating biography of a mercurial man.Two hardback volumes in slip-case. 'Advice gratis is never any good. I always charge a guinea.' - Dr Louis Lawrence Smith a product of his age ... doctor, politician, sportsman, newspaper proprietor, author, ...
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L. L. Smith, medico, writer, publisher, politician, litigant, showman, speculator, collector, vigneron, farmer, breeder and rider of racehorses, guiding hand for thirty years of Melbourne's great exhibition complex...The Audacious Adventures of Dr Louis Lawrence Smith is a captivating biography of a mercurial man.Two hardback volumes in slip-case. 'Advice gratis is never any good. I always charge a guinea.' - Dr Louis Lawrence Smith a product of his age ... doctor, politician, sportsman, newspaper proprietor, author, agitator ...' - Marcus Clarke John Poynter is a Professional Fellow and former Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. The Audacious Adventures of Dr Louis Lawrence Smith completes, with Doubts and Certainties: The Life of Alexander Leeper (1997) and Mr Felton's Bequests (2003 and 2008), a trio of studies of figures prominent in Colonial Victoria's golden age.
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First edition, complete in two hardback volumes. 8vo (24cm by 14cm), xx, 694pp. Frontispiece to each volume, 26pp plates, text illustrations. Original darb blue cloth, illustrated front boards, gilt titling to the spines, illustrated card slipcase. The books are in excellent condition; the slipcase is in very good conditio (some minor rubbing). ISBN 9781925003239.