BEIN Jn66 050 Copy 2: Imperfect: the 2 prelim. leaves of the supplement are wanting.

BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Has additional copies of the supplement's title leaf and dedication leaf bound in at front. Bound in contemporary blue straight-grained. Plates are hand-colored. Copy 2 bound in blind- and gilt-tooled red morocco. Plates are not colored.

Attributed by Abbey to Captain Thomas Williamson. Halkett & Laing attributes authorship to John Lawrence.

Aquatint engravings by Matthew Dubourg, Henri Merke, and Thomas Sutherland ; after John Augustus Atkinson, John Heaviside Clark, Samuel Howitt, and Franz Joseph Manskirch

The supplement ([20] p. and 10 pl., at end) has a separate title page: Field sports, &c. &c. of the native inhabitants of New South Wales; with ten plates, by the author ... London, 1813. This was originally issued as a separate publication.

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 2

Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 224

Hardie, M. English coloured books, p. 136-137

Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving, p. 283, 357

Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, I, p. 177-179

Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous publications in the English language (3rd ed.), v. 2, p. 310

Sporting > Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.

Hunting > Australia.

Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs.

Aboriginal Australians > Hunting.

Aboriginal Australians > Food.

Aboriginal Australians > Pictorial works.