[ROWE (Richard)].

Friends and Acquaintances. By the Author of "Episodes in an Obscure Life.

London, Strahan and Co. 1871. First edition. Three volumes. Contemporary half calf. 8vo. pp. vii. 306; [iv]. 294; [iv]. 326. Not in Wolff; Morris Miller and Macartney p. 412. Rowe was born in England in 1828 and went to Australia in about 1857. His Australian fiction included several novels as well as the collection "Roughing It in Van Diemen's Land." Before his death in 1870 he returned to England and published a number of interesting novels such as "Friends and Acquaintances", which were episodic in nature and dealt with the London poor. He had evidently studied the situation at first hand, one of his works being the factual "How Our Working People Live" (London, Strahan). Spines chipped in places, but a sound set. Bound without the half-titles.

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