Hardcover. William Anderson Cawthorne (illustrator). Facsimile Edition. Small 8vo. Pp. [4], 19. With an informed bibliographical introduction Bound in printed laminated boards.

One of an edition limited to 1000 copies. First published in Adelaide, South Australia, 1862, a book that is impressively rare. A peculiar children's book pleasantly tainted with a particularly Australian sense of the macabre. Thought to be the first true picture children's story book published in Australia and one of the first Australian children's publications