MEREDITH (LOUISA ANNE): Waratah Rhymes for young Australia, photo-etched illustrations, some full-page, by Louisa Meredith, E.M. Boyd and R. Andre, original blue coth-backed coloured pictorial boards, green-printed floral design end papers (corners worn, head and foot of spine rubbed), [Muir, Bibliography, p. 578, illus. p. 704], 4to, London 1891

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MEREDITH (LOUISA ANNE): Waratah Rhymes for young Australia, photo-etched illustrations, some full-page, by Louisa Meredith, E.M. Boyd and R. Andre, original blue coth-backed coloured pictorial boards, green-printed floral design end papers (corners worn, head and foot of spine rubbed), [Muir, Bibliography, p. 578, illus. p. 704], 4to, London 1891

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Muir History of Australian childrens book illustration pp 29-31, reproducing two of Emma Minnie Boyd's illustrations 'wife of artist Arthur Boyd. She was an artist of considerable talent ... the simple domestic scenes she depicted of children in natural surroundings - colonial rather than English - show her sympathy for her subject. Certainly Australian children would have felt at home with her illustration'

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