The plates were drawn and lithographed by Agnes Fitzgibbon and are hand coloured.

Gift; Susan Armstrong and David and Grant Johnston; 2011; RB318592, copy 5.

Fisher copies: All copies bound in green cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Cham copies 2 and 4 with original green endpapers; Cham copy 3 rebound.

Fisher cham copy 1: Originally bound in green pebble-grain publishers' cloth, with rules and floral frame in blind on upper and lower covers; title lettering in gold on upper cover; rebound in later green cloth, with cloth from original binding over upper cover.

Fisher cham copy 2: Bound in green pebble-grain publishers' cloth, with rules and floral frame in blind on upper and lower covers; title lettering in gold on upper cover and in blind on lower cover. With original green endpapers.

Fisher cham copy 3: Rebound (June, 1947) in green linen-grain cloth, with lettering in gold on spine.

Fisher cham copy 4: Bound in green pebble-grain publishers' cloth, with rules and floral frame in blind on upper and lower covers; title lettering in gold on upper cover and in blind on lower cover. With original green endpapers.

Fisher cham copy 5: From the Strickland / Moodie / Dunn family library. With an ms. "errata" slip tipped-in at p.[3], uncorrected in the other copies. Bound in auburn pebble-grain publishers' cloth, with rules and floral frame in blind on upper and lower covers; title lettering in gold on upper cover and in blind on lower cover. With the inscription: "Miss Hawtayne, with K. Strickland's [ie. Kate] kind regards, Feb, 1869."