First Edition. Dust jacket torn along spine with moderate foxing throughout. A collection of poetry about Australian birds and animals. Nelle Grant Cooper has composed a cheery Christmas ditty on the front endpaper and dedicated this copy to fellow Australian poet, Jack Moses, signed and dated December 1939.

Standard art reference for the first thirty years of European settlement: detailed chapters on Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans and further discussion on other artists 1800-1821.

With illustrations by Percy Lindsay. This is a presentation copy dedicated by the author to famous Australian poet, Jack Moses (1861-1945). "To Moses of the Jack name with the author's compliments." Moses was an Sydney-based whisky merchant and renowned troubadour and author of the iconic Australian Ballad 'Nine Miles from Gundagai.

The catalogue of a travelling exhibition of the significant nineteenth century visiting artist whose Australian and New Zealand work, sometimes on the heroic scale, is well represented in Australian galleries.

Standard art reference for the first thirty years of European settlement: detailed chapters on Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans and further discussion on other artists 1800-1821.

Standard art reference for the first thirty years of European settlement: detailed chapters on Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans and further discussion on other artists 1800-1821.

First edition of this important monograph on Martens by esteemed Australian artist and engraver Lionel Lindsay. The publication of this book helped to raise awareness of Martens and Australian colonial landscape art generally.