HAMMILL, Mrs Herbert

The Life and Adventures [sic] Dog 'Oscar'. [The Life and Adventures of the Dog 'Oscar', told by himself (cover title)]

Melbourne, Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1889.

190 x 155 mm, 44 pages (last page with only a printer's ornament) with a decorated title page, a head- and tail-piece, and a frontispiece (of 'Elsie, "my little missus" as I loved to call her').

Flush-cut pictorial textured card covers printed in green, saddle-bound with ribbon (recently replaced); slight restoration to the spine; central vertical crease to the entire booklet; covers and text a little foxed; offsetting to one early opening (from acidic newsprint no longer present); trifling signs of use and age; overall a very good copy.

'With the Author's Compliments' is stamped on the first (blank) page. Muir 3262 (recording a second edition of the same year, but clearly both are rare - for instance, this first edition is not in the National Library of Australia).