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Sydney: The Council, 1988. Publishers original blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. Blue endpapers, no inscriptions. Presentation copy that has letter from Councillor Lewis Herman inserted loosely. Frontis: colour photograph of aerial view of city. 266pp including index, plus 14pp colour photographs, profusely illustrated with b/w photographs throughout text. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. This book was published in Australia's Bicentennial year and records two hundred years history of the area now covered by the Municipality of Ashfield. In that time Ashfield has been transformed from a heavily forested and gently undulating wilderness to a heavily built up area traversed by railways and major highways and supporting a large population of great cultural and racial diversity. This history chronicles the events, personalities and social forces that combined to produce this dramatic transformation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.