Birds of the sunny south, with Australian flowers / produced entirely by Australians

At the head of title: Greetings from Australia. Melbourne : Pater’s Printery, [c.1911]. Square duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers with yapp edges (edges worn, a couple of small chips), original string tie, printed title page, [11] eleven chromolithographic plates of Australian birds in natural settings; a good copy. Muir 704.

A rare publication – both a souvenir and a children’s book – designed and illustrated by Violet Teague and Geraldine Rede, the two Australian artists most famous for their 1905 publication Night fall in the ti-tree.