Meredith, L. A.
Tasmanian friends and foes, feathered, furred, and finned. A family chronicle of country life, natural history, and veritable adventure. With coloured plates, from drawings by the author and other illustrations. Second edition.
London, Marcus Ward, 1881. Small 4to (21.9 x 16.7 cm). Title page, 259 pp.; eight chromolithographed plates depicting fishes and flowers from Tasmania, numerous text engravings. Original green, black and gilt decorated pictorial cloth. Gilded, patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
A well-illustrated work on nature and daily life of European settlers in Tasmania, with notes and illustrations on the wildlife, for instance the Tasmanian wolf: "there is another charming fellow which all the people here call the Tiger, but as a tiger is like a great cat, and this beast is much like a dog, you will see how foolish such a name is. I believe naturalists call it the dog-faced opossum, and that is not much better...", this is followed by a firsthand report on its behaviour and occurrence. The colour plates are very beautiful. Louisa Anne Meredith, née Twamley (1812-1895) was a British (later Australian - Tasmanian) poet and painter. The second edition is thought to be identical to the first. Gilt on binding a bit abraded, crease to the front board lower outer corner and small chip to top rear edge; lower half of the inner joint weak but holding, small dent in the top rear board, front free endpaper folded, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

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