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The Native Tribes of South Australia. Comprising The Narrinyeri by the Rev. George Taplin; The Adelaide Tribe by Dr. Wyatt J.P.; The Encounter Bay Tribe by the Rev. A. Meyer; The Port Lincoln Tribe by the Rev. C.W. Schuermann; The Dieyerie Tribe by S. Gason; Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect Northern Territory by John Wm. Ogilvie Bennett; with an Introductory Chapter by J.D. Woods
1879106051Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1879. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1879 first thus. Octavo xliv 316 pages. Original dark green cloth decorated in black on the front and rear boards and decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth lightly flecked; a fine copy. An early collected reprint of works already scarce at the time of publication; the lengthy 34-page introduction by Woods is new to this edition. This is a variant edition as issued we purchased several copies some years ago from the publisher's archive; it does not contain the eight tinted lithographs normally found in this collected reprint. These plates were new to the reprint. <p>Not commonly known is that Taplin's substantial contribution 'The Narrinyeri' 156 pages plus 6 preliminaries is the text of the revised edition of 1878 see his informative preface dated 12 April 1878 at page xliii. The Wyatt contribution was not previously published as such; the text here was 'principally extracted from his official reports' stemming from his relatively short and unhappy time as the third South Australian Protector of the Aborigines from 1837 to 1839 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The contributions by Meyer Schuermann Gason and Bennett first appeared in 1846 1846 1874 and 1869 respectively. Ferguson 13095 noting variant bindings but not noting this unillustrated edition. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
