Browne, Thomas Alexander ("Rolf Boldrewood")

Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia. London: Remington and Co., 1888, 8vo (190 x 140 mm.), 3 volumes, first book edition, half-titles, original green cloth with covers blocked in black and spines lettered in gilt (with the misspelling "Bolderwood"), in a collector's folding box, [Sadleir 261, Wolff 586], extremities slightly rubbed, natural discolouration to endpapers, neat repair to endpapers at inner hinges of vol. 1, inner hinges of vol. 3 tightened; The Miner's Right: a Tale of the Australian Goldfields. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890, 8vo (185 x 140 mm.), 3 volumes, first book edition, half-titles, 40 page publisher's catalogue (dated September 1889) at end of volume three, original red cloth lettered in gilt, [Wolff 580], recased with new endpapers

Robbery Under Arms: Edward Moon (bookplates); Estelle Doheney (book labels), sale of her library, part 4, Christie's, New York, 17 October 1988, lot 1136

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Robbery Under Arms played an important role in establishing the bushranger as a romantic hero in the Australian imagination, through its vivid presentation of the outlaw life of Dick Marston and Captain Starlight. It has enjoyed enormous popularity from the time of its first publication, has never been out of print, and has been adapted for stage and screen.