The Story of John Fairfax. Commemorating the Centenary of the Fairfax Proprietary of the Sydney Morning Herald. 1841-1941.

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Sydney: John Fairfax & Sons, 1941. Sm.4to. Orig. blind-stamped boards with morocco spine (a little rubbed at corners and spine extremities). (10, xx, 170pp.). With col. portr., tissue guard, title-vign., 2 full-page portrs., and 13 illusts by A. Feint. Ex-libr. copy with SCEGGS library bookplate on front endpaper, number on spine and stamps on several pages. Otherwise a very good copy. NOTE: John Fairfax (1804-1877) was an English journalist, who came to Sydney in 1838, and became proprietor of The Sydney Morning Herald in 1841.