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George Robertson & Company, Melbourne, 1886. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG+. viii+143pp, b/w engraved frontis, 2 b/w plates, cloth rubbed at the extremities & base of the spine, endpapers a little foxed, but an attractive copy. Biography of Charles Price [ 1807 - 1891 ] Congregational Minister who after training in London & Coventry travelled to Tasmania in 1832 to become a minister. Despite finding his expected Hobart congregation dispersed he moved to Launceston for a short while before a brief time in Sydney. He returned to Launceston & finding that the 'Presbyterian and Wesleyan churches had been established, sought to found a Congregational church without undue call on Dissenting generosity. A church was formed on 26 October 1836 and the Tamar Street Chapel opened on 6 September 1837' ( ANDB). He was the first Independent Minister In Australia.

(Melbourne: George Robertson: 1886) Ferguson 9581. Gilt cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 144. Two portrait plates lithographed by L. Lang, Melbourne and an illustration of a page from Mr. Price’s Diary. Some stains to cloth and wear to corners of boards; dampstains to endpapers and a few marks to the edges; stains and signs of use internally, mainly marginal; otherwise generally a very good copy.