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Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983. 850 g; 156 pp., colour illustrated dustwrapper, text illustrated with color drawings, maps, glossary. There is a gift inscription from mum and dad on the half title page, and there is also light rubbing of the top and bottom edges of the dust jacket. Far too often the records of historical houses of Australia have dwelt on grandiose, especially the replicas of Georgian mansions left behind in England. But the real-time their homes were built by the battlers, the underprivileged settlers, many of them escaped convicts. Their houses were rarely designed. They just grew from the primitive materials and simple tools that were at hand. Here is a fascinating historical and architectural account of these pioneer dwellings, together with the very earliest Australian shelters, built by the Aborigines. -- front fold over blurb. First Australian Edition. Dark Green Papered Boards. Good/Good. Illus. by Richard A. Smolicz. Oblong 8vo.. History.