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M.C.C. tour to Australia 1920/21. ‘A Voyage with the Mails Between Brisbane- London... A memento by an amateur photographer’. London Stereoscopic Company, London, third edition c.1920. A large format souvenir book with decorative blue cloth, comprising photographs and descriptions of ports of call on the journey on the Orient Line ‘S.S. Osterley’. Includes a collection of twenty one signatures in ink on two pages, the majority signed to the ‘Autographs’ page, including the signatures of the sixteen members of the M.C.C. touring party who made the voyage, surrounded by decorative borders laid down and coloured in watercolours. Signatures are Hobbs, Strudwick, Rhodes, Waddington, Wilson, Douglas, Hearne, Parkin, Dolphin, Woolley, Hendren, Howell, Fender, Makepeace, Russell, and Toone (Manager). Lacking the signature of Hitch who travelled separately. Also signed by J.B. Higgins (Worcestershire & Europeans 1912-1930). It is assumed the book was signed by the M.C.C. on their outward journey from England to Australia. Original decorative boards. Some breaking to front internal hinge and page block, minor wear to board extremities, otherwise in good condition.