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Dedication: To my Friend, Hugh Gordon.

Consists of three parts: 'Fair Girls', 'Gray Horses' and 'Other Verses'.

Percival Serle's Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse (1925) notes that there are three illustrations by George W. Lambert.

This November 1899 edition has twenty-five additional poems compared to the first edition of 1898. Six are in the section 'Fair Girls'; six in 'Gray Horses' and thirteen in 'Other Verses'.

Includes The Bulletin Newspaper Company Limited. 'Publications and Announcements.30 November, 1899.'

Dedication: To Hugh Gordon. For sake of the meet and the muster, The hunts on the oak-scrub and plain: For sake of the old days, whose lustre May never shine round us again: In mind of the head-rope and halter, The mount in the dawn and the dew, I lay my poor gift on the altar Of friendship, and pledge it to You! W.H.O.

Index to First Lines, pp.207-210, [1]p.

Index to First Lines, pp.207-210, [1]p.

Includes The Bulletin Newspaper Company, Limited. 'Publications and Announcements. 1st January 1901.' ix-xviii.

Reprint of the November 1899 edition.

Facsimile edition.

The index now lists all poems without the three headings although they are included in the main part of the volume.

Includes 'Selected List of Books Published by Angus & Robertson'.November 1906.31p.[1]p.

On 25 September 1906 the copyright of Fair Girls and Gray Horses was sold to Angus and Robertson for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds by The Bulletin Newspaper Company. Ogilvie was in Scotland and objected to a lack of consultation about the sale and the failure to pay him fifty percent of the proceeds. 'Author and Publisher The Interesting Case of W.H.Ogilvie and The Bulletin Company'. The Bookfellow 4 April 1907: 6.by A.G.S. (Alfred George Stephens).

Author's note: Of the following verses, 'Life has wreaths of each hue', 'Gold Tresses', 'The Old Boat', 'The World Beyond', 'Ballade of Windy Nights', and 'To the Overlanders' are first printed in this volume.'

Miller's Australian Literature From Its Beginnings To 1935 (1940) asserts the 1906 edition was part of the Commonwealth Series. There is no indication on the work.

Listed in Miller's Australian Literature From its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 281. Assumed to be a reprint of the 1906 edition but not sighted for confirmation.

This edition contains 84 poems as compared with 95 in the 1906 edition.

Miller's Australian Literature From Its Beginnings To 1935 (1940) asserts this edition was part of the Platypus Series but there is no indication on the work.

Introduction by Douglas Stewart (q.v.) xi-xviii. 'However that may be, there can be no question of the permanent Australian interest of Fair Girls and Gray Horses, both for its historical value as an outstanding specimen of the bush-ballad period and for its own intriinsic qualities of song and balladry...Ogilvie who stands just a little slighter than Paterson and Lawson in the leading triumvirate of Australian balladists, has a distinctive and original voice through and beyond all influences.' xi, xiv.

This is not a complete edition of either the first edition (1898) of 71 poems or the second edition (1899) of 96 poems. There are 71 poems in this volume; it both adds to and deletes poems from the first edition.

'First published 1898'. Publisher's note.