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Issue Details: First known date: 1878... 1878 Grandmamma's Verse-Book for Young Australia : Part 1
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      Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: 1878 .
      Extent: 56p.
      Note/s:
      • Printed for the author by W. Fletcher; and sold by J. Walch & Sons, Hobart Town; Walch Brothers and Birchall, Launceston; and Geo. Robertson, Melbourne and Sydney.
      • Title page : By Mrs Meredith, author of My Home in Towsmania, Some of my Bush Friends in Tasmania, etc etc
      • Dedication: To Louisa, Freda, Glendower, and David Meredith, in whom the following verses first found approving listeners and ready learners, the little book is offered as a Christmas gift, by their loving grandmother. December, 1878.
      • Includes preface discussing the need for children to experience poetry.
      • Pages 53-56 are explanatory notes for some of the poems.
Alternative title: Waratah Rhymes for Young Australia
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