03039 Warwick & Sapsford Brisbane 1881 Small 8vo. Photograph frontispiece, 113 pp. Orig. green cloth with gilt title and Australian coat of arms on the upper board. Slight silverfishing to boards, name on paste-down endpaper, a little foxing here and there. * A collection of Chubb's prose and poetry written for the 'dramatic entertainments of the Brisbane 'Elocution Class' and on board ships 'to kill time'. Charles Frederick Chubb (1822 - 1891) came to Australia in 1857 established his practice as a solicitor in Ipswich in 1858. He was an Alderman of Ipswich Council for a few years and served as mayor in 1877. Chubb was a keen supporter of separation and his poem 'An Ode to Sir George Bowen' written to welcome the new governor, is credited with being the first poem published in the newly founded colony of Queensland when it was issued as a leaflet in December 1859. $495.00AUD
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