Sketches From Early New Zealand (by Introduced by Laurie Barber)

• 1985 edition   112 pages
• Published by  David Bateman
• Hard cover. Dustjacket. Fully illustrated.  Large
• Condition. Good plus.  Some fading on dust jacket and a crease on its back cover 

Some Nineteenth Century Engravings

While browsing through the famous second-hand bookshops in the village of Hay on Wye in England, James Buchanan, a New Zealander, came across a rich assortment of illustrations and articles  all pertaining to New Zealand - from nineteenth-century illustrated publications.

When pieced together this material presents a fascinating picture of the colony of New Zealand as seen though the eyes of middle class, nineteenth-century Englishmen.  

Historian Laurie Barber had compiled a throughtful commentary on tthese splendid engravings to give us  an intriguing glimpse of early New Zealand as the 'mother country' saw us.