The Australian ladies’ annual

A$925 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Contributions by Tasma, H.N.B., Mrs. J.A. Bode, Mrs. Dampier, Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Meredith, Sylvia, Mrs. T. P. Hill, Little Rosebud, Miss Donnelly, Miss Cheeseman, Constance Craig , Miss Card, and others. Melbourne : M Carron, Bird Co., 1878. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth over bevelled boards, corners rubbed, lightly flecked, upper hinge cracked, title page printed in red and black, pp. 148, ruled borders in red, text block cracked, light foxing, a good copy. The only issue of this rare gathering of colonial Australian women writers, with contributions by Jessie Couvreur (Tasma), Ada Cambridge, Louisa Anne Meredith, Hannah Newton Baker and others.

• Binding: Hardcover

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