Pedigree and panache is the first comprehensive history of the art auction in Australia. In this fascinating work, Shireen Huda investigates the construction of the glamorous reputation of art auctions and art auction houses.

... Leigh Hunt , and a score or more of other men of LIVES of the KEMBLES . BY ... in Author of " Ravenshoe , " " Geoffrey Hamlyn , " & c . 2 vols . JOSHUA ... CHANDOS POETS EDITION . Large crown 8vo . with numerous Notes , original ...

... Leigh Hunt , Darley , Gifford , Thomas Campbell , & c . 2 vols . 12mo . GEO . F. COOLEDGE & BROTHER , PUBLISHERS ... Chandos Picture , en- graved by Cochran ; and FORTY BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS , Engraved on Steel , by the first ...

This work, which unlike most of the books on the subject written at the time has retained its popularity, covers in great detail the major coaching roads to Bath, Exeter, Portsmouth, Brighton, Dover, York and Holyhead.