Item #106829 Cargeeg's Official Catalogue of the Adelaide Exhibition of Arts and Industries of all Nations, including a List and a Description of the Pictures [cover title]. 1881 Adelaide Exhibition.

[Adelaide Exhibition, 1881]

Cargeeg's Official Catalogue of the Adelaide Exhibition of Arts and Industries of all Nations, including a List and a Description of the Pictures [cover title]

Adelaide, R. Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for G.H. Cargeeg], 1881 ('Second Edition' is printed at the head of the front cover).

Octavo, 132 pages with numerous advertisements (some with illustrations) plus advertisements on all surfaces of the covers.

Stiffened wrappers lightly chipped (mainly along the slightly overlapping leading edges); spine a little sunned; short tear to the rear cover and last leaf expertly sealed; wrappers and adjacent leaves a little foxed, with occasional light foxing elsewhere; creases to the top corner tips of some leaves at the rear; overall an excellent copy.

G.H. Cargeeg has a pictorial advertisement on the outside rear wrapper for his 'News- and General Advertising Agency', and on page 130 he appears as the manufacturer of 'Cargeeg's Chromograph, an Apparatus for Multiplying Copies ... without the Aid of a Press'. Not located in Trove.