£40
Australia. Australian Silk Printing, Music: Charles Troedel (1835/6-1906, lithographer), Weston's New Opera House [...], n.d. [July, 1869], souvenir programme for the Grand Vice-Regal Command Night, 23rd July, 1869, patronised by Georgiana Manners-Sutton, Viscountess Canterbury (née Tompson; d. 1899), wife of the 3rd Viscount Canterbury, then Governor of Victoria (1866-73), Melbourne: C. Troedel, Printer, 100 Swanton-st., n.d. [1869], printed on silk in contrasting purple and blue ink, [2]ff only, tacked-on fringe, 20.5 x 14.5cm, with TLS correspondence from the Office of The High Commissioner for Australia and T.A. Kealy, then Principal Librarian of The State Library of Victoria, dated August and December, 1972, respectively; [&] a map of Australia, feigned trompe-l'œil border, monogrammed E.*., titled and dated 1862, pen-and-ink and watercolour, 19.5 x 25.5cm
The souvenir programme, printed on silk, is almost certainly unique.
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