Sydney: Queensberry Hill Press, 1978. Folio, 26 colour plates with single text leaf, followed by an Index of synonymes, the original list of subscribers and a final leaf for the Queensberry Hill Press subscribers. Publisher's handsome brown full calf in a Solander Box (some splitting and bumping), limited to 500 numbered copies.

An outstanding facsimile of the first separately published Australian bird book. This edition also has a scholarly introduction by the late Allen McEvey, former curator of birds at the Museum of Victoria and a world renowned authority on the art of John Gould. The Lewin facsimile is arguably the finest production of Queensbury Hill Press and an excellent example of quality Australian binding.

First published in London in 1808 as Birds of New Holland. Then the famous Sydney edition of 1813, by now titled Birds of New South Wales. After Lewin's death in 1819 his widow went back to England and produced the 1822 edition. John Gould recognised the promise of the book and published an edition in 1838, the colouring was gouache instead of watercolour in the 1822 edition. In 1875 the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch concocted an edition dated 1822, with the plates in gouache (not watercolour) and watermarked 1875. The modern Queensbury Hill Press version was taken from Donald Shank's copy of the 1838 edition. Allan McEvey (pers com) quite rightly considered this final iteration on Lewin as an edition in it's own right. Thus it could reasonably be called the sixth edition of Lewin's Birds of New South Wales.