AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD CALENDAR. 

Written by E.S. Emerson. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay.

Published by George Robertson and Company Pty. Ltd, Melbourne, 1909

First separate edition (after the 'Lone Hand' Magazine)

The Lindsay illustrations include:

Front cover design and 22 text illustrations incorporating twelve

monthly lettered headings. Illustrations and text were originally

printed in The Lone Hand magazine between January 1909 (Vol

IV No 21) and December 1909 (Vol VI No 32). Bound with blue

string. Printed by The Queen City Printers.

Melbourne, George Robertson and Company Pty. Ltd., [1909]. Large octavo (measures 8-5/8 x 6-5/8 inches); unpaginated [16 pages] with numerous illustrations by Norman Lindsay (the text printed in green, the illustrations in sepia) and 2 full-page illustrations (photographs by W.S. Henty). Cord-bound blue- and silver-pictorial olive-green card covers.

Covers chipped, lightly tanned around the edges, some smudging/soiling to text; an acceptable copy of a rare and ephemeral item. Emerson's contributions are in verse.