Queensberry Hill, Melbourne, 1977.

Small 4to, 236pp. Colour portrait frontispiece with black & white photographs, folding maps and facsimile papers. A very good hardback copy in quarter leather with gilt decorations.

Limited edition, No. 212 of 750 copies signed by J.O. Randell. Part of a series on the early exploration and settlement of Northern Victoria. By 1852, thirty years after they landed, the Pattersons already held 400,000 acres of land, grazing 80,000 sheep and 600 cows.