Published by James C. Beal, Government Printer, Brisbane, Queensland (Australia), 1887
Hardcover. Condition: Good. black and white illustrations, 111p. Contemporary 1/2 leather with marbled boards. 22 cm. Joints rubbed with splitting at ends. Foxing, mostly on early leaves; contents otherwise ssound and clean. Former owner's signature ("T. Macdonald Paterson, May 1887") on blank leaf preceding title-page. Thomas Macdonld-Paterson, 1844-1906, the original owner, appears to have been an Australian politician, serving as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, and later as a member of the Australian House of Representatives.
Published by James C. Beal, Brisbane, 1887
Seller: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australia
First Edition
Publisher's boards. Margaret Anderson Hope (Illus) (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st ed., 8vo., pp.iv, 112, b&w lithograph plates (44) illus by Margaret Anderson Hope, foxing to earlier and latter pages and edges, prev owner's name in ink to t.p. and introduction page, heavy fishing to orig publisher's embossed bds., small loss (1cm x 2mm) to spine, dec. eps., plates clean, good condition. Ferguson 6514. Published in Queensland as identification for stock-owners.