Bound for the Goldfields. A true account of a journey from Melbourne to Castlemaine by a carrier of supplies to the goldfields. First published by Charles Dickens in his weekly journal Household Words of June 2nd. 1855. Designed and illustrated with cuts.

7/45 COPIES (from an edition of 55 copies), concertina-bound with a continuous landscape illustration using various techniques (lino-cutting, wood-engraving, et al.) predominantly in green, blue and yellow (with red ants scampering along the base), the text running longitudinally up the yellow grass, pp. [32], 4to, original hessian cloth binding, the lettering stamped large in black and wrapping round, tan leather ties, note from the press recommending that the book be stored flat laid in, fine