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Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Time, 1st edition, 1848, seventy-three etched plates including frontispiece and vignettes, correct as list, title inscribed 'John Pascoe Fawkner, May 1858, Willis & Sotheran' and similar inscription to verso of frontispiece and final plate (& signature also to B1), manuscript initials J.P.F. to verso of majority of plates, some spotting, all edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, gilt decorated spine, rubbed & worn, folio John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869) was born in Cripplegate, London and become an early pioneer settler, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Australia. Fawkner travelled to Australia in 1803 as an eleven year old, living with his convict father in a colony established near present day Sorrento. When the colony was abandoned in 1804 due to lack of wood and fresh water, the Fawkners moved to Hobart in Tasmania. Fawkner worked in his fathers bakery, timber business and brewery. In 1819 Fawkner moved to Launceston with transported convict Eliza Cobb. They later married in 1822, with a permit from Governor George Arthur. In Launceston they set up a hotel, bakery, timber business, bookshop, nursery, orchard and a newspaper The Launceston Advertiser in 1829. In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprize. Fawkner's party sailed to Port Phillip and up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne. Fawkner played a key role in the establishment of Melbourne and Victoria as a separate state. It would appear that this volume was purchased from and supplied by the booksellers Willis & Sotheran. (1)